INSTITUTIONS ACTING AGAINST MALNUTRITION IN GUINEA

At the first level, we have the Ministry of Public Health as a national institution. Beside the Ministry, we have some international institutions such as UNICEF, SAVE CHILDREN, PLAN GUINEE,WHO, WORLD BANK, WFP, NGOs, etc.

These institutions and NGOs are assisting the country by:
- Mobilizing resources to support implementation
of these recommendations.
- Facilitating the local production or procurement of RUTF for countries with a high prevalence of severe acute malnutrition in communities where access to utrient-dense foods is limited.
- Supporting the development and evaluation of nutrition rehabilitation protocols based on local foods in countries where poor families have access to nutrient-dense foods.
- Working with governments and the private sector, including non-governmental
organizations, to rapidly disseminate these recommendations and build capacity for their implementation.
- Conducting operations research to refine protocols of community-based management of
severe acute malnutrition.
- Jointly implementing expanded communitybased programmes to combat severe acute
malnutrition in major humanitarian emergency situations.