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. 2020 Dec 9;13(1):559.
doi: 10.1186/s13104-020-05408-4.

Ethiopian progress towards achieving the global nutrition targets of 2025: analysis of sub-national trends and progress inequalities

Nebyu Daniel Amaha  1
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Ethiopian progress towards achieving the global nutrition targets of 2025: analysis of sub-national trends and progress inequalities

Nebyu Daniel Amaha. BMC Res Notes. .

Abstract

Objectives: The World Health Assembly (WHA) developed six global nutrition targets that focus on child and maternal nutrition. The progress made by individual countries is available as a yearly global nutrition report. However, reporting the national progress might mask important sub-national differences. This study aimed to measure the progress of the 11 regions of Ethiopia towards achieving the 2025 WHA targets using average annual reduction rates (AARR).

Results: Ethiopia is off-track in meeting the five global nutrition targets studied. The national AARR of stunting is 2.3 against a target of 5.3, for wasting the current AARR is 3.1 against a target of 5.3. The AARR of non-exclusive breastfeeding was 2.1 close to the target of 2.7. Anemia in women of reproductive age increased across all the regions of Ethiopia. The majority of Ethiopian regions were on track to achieving the overweight and exclusive breastfeeding targets by 2025. There is an urgent need to address anemia in Ethiopian women of reproductive age because its prevalence has been increasing. Secondly, the progress to reduce wasting and stunting in children under-5 has not been enough and more work needs to be done if Ethiopia is to achieve the 2025 targets.

Keywords: AARR; Average annual reduction rate; Ethiopia; Global nutrition targets; Malnutrition; Stunting; Undernutrition; Wasting.

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Conflict of interest statement

The author declare that he has no competing interests.

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