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Sh1.8 trillion spent on undernutrition annually — report
Apollo Gabazira, the CARE Uganda’s country director, which oversees the CASCADE project, mentioned that 29% and 53% of children below the age of five years are stunted and anaemic, respectively, whereas 32% of women aged 15-49 years are anaemic in northern and western Uganda.
Josephat Byaruhanga Senior policy officer Agriculture and Agribusiness, Kingdom of Netherlands remarking. Photos by Colleb Mugume
By: NewVision Reporter, Journalist @NewVision
Uganda spends about shillings 1.8 trillion on nutrition-related chronic diseases among adults in northern and western Uganda every year, a report has said.
The report from the Catalysing