Iron supplementation among children living in malaria-endemic area does not result in increased incidence of malaria

Children in a malaria-endemic community in Ghana who received a micronutrient powder with iron did not have an increased incidence of malaria, according to a study in the September 4 issue of JAMA. Previous research has suggested that iron supplementation for children with iron deficiency in malaria-endemic areas may increase the risk of malaria…

Mapping The Risk Of Anaemia From Malnutrition, Malaria, And Helminth Infections In Preschool-Age Children In West Africa

In this week’s PLoS Medicine, Ricardo Soares Magalhães and Archie Clements, from the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, describe how they used national cross-sectional household-based demographic health surveys to map the distribution of anaemia risk in preschool-age children in Burkina Faso, Ghana, and Mali…

Three-Day African Food Security Forum Opens In Accra

The 26th Annual Meeting of the Food Crisis Prevention Network, “which serves as the platform for deliberation on food production and food security in Africa,” opened on Tuesday in Accra, Ghana, the Ghana News Agency reports…

Three-Day African Food Security Forum Opens In Accra

The 26th Annual Meeting of the Food Crisis Prevention Network, “which serves as the platform for deliberation on food production and food security in Africa,” opened on Tuesday in Accra, Ghana, the Ghana News Agency reports…

Put nutrition at the heart of agriculture, say west African …

Ecowas says nutrition must be a core concern of agriculture rather than a problem needing an emergency response “Animal production – that is nutrition .” The statement by Victoria Tsekpo of Ghana’s food and agriculture ministry summed up …