MERIDA, Leyte – Members of the Municipal Nutrition Committee, women Barangay Captains and Barangay Nutrition Scholars (BNSs) who are almost all are women attend workshop on Municipal/Barangay Nutrition Action Planning for the year 2022-2025. The National Nutrition Council in region 8 develop a syllabus integrating Nutrition Program Management (NPM) concepts and tools in the M/BNAP…

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PALO, Leyte – Malnutrition remains a public health problem across the globe. Based on the FNRI-DOST ENNS 2019 Results, FILIPINOS are the 2nd shortest in the ASEAN Region; Philippines is 9th in the highest number of stunted children and 10th in the highest number of wasted children globally. Food insecurity as affected by poverty and…

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MAASIN CITY – The National Nutrition Council (NNC) together with development partners including UNICEF, Samaritan’s Purse, and Plann International have visited Limasawa Island in Southern Leyte on February 22, 2022. The team was on on its second day of Health and Nutrition Program Monitoring visit in areas most affected by Typhoon Odette that devastated the province on…

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MAASIN CITY – The Provincial Health Service Office of Southern Leyte (SL) conducted meeting Monday morning to uodate all provincial program coordinators of the provincial coordinators. Present during the meeting presided by Provincial Health Officer II and concurrent Privinvial Nutrition Action Officer Dr John Matibag were various program coordinators of the province, National Nuttition Council official…

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MAASIN CITY – Officials and staff from UNICEF Manila and National Nutrition Council (NNC) Region 8 paid a courtesy visit and a meeting with Southern Leyte Provincial Governor Damian Mercado on February 22, 2022. UNICEF Manila come to SL to assess how far the humanitarian organizations can assist 19 LGUs of SL in terms of…

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MAASIN CITY – The Nutrition Program Coordinators’ (NPC) Association named Association of Nutrition Prime Movers of the Philippines through its president and treasurer Dr. Terry Ungson and Carina Santiago respectively, polled funds from the 17 Regional NPC and various donors an amount and later pro rated the said amount to regions devastated by TY Odette.…

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PALO, Leyte – The National Nutrition Council (NNC) headed by RNPC Catalino P. Dotollo, Jr. and UNICEF officials discussed with DOH-EV-CHD Director, Dr. Exuperia B. Sabalberino, the ongoing Typhoon Odette response in Southern Leyte.UNICEF sectors on health, nutrition, and education presented their continuous efforts in monitoring of typhoon response implementation and assessment of current needs…

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PALO, Leyte – The Provincial Health Office of Leyte on February 15, 2022 received Ready-Use-therapeutic food (RUTF), made possible through the coordinated efforts of UNICEF, Department of Health (DOH), and the National Nutrition Council (NNC).The supply pulled out from Samar province is intended for areas severely hit by Typhoon Odette in the 5th district of Leyte.On…

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PALO, Leyte – The municipality of Mondragon in Northern Samar through its Municipal Nutrition Core Planning team attend training on Nutrition and Health Leadership (NutriHeaL for the First 1000 Days under Municipal Nutrition and Governance Program (MNGP). This MNGP training is the last batch to be conducted by the Zuellig Family Foundation (ZFF).   In close…

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PALO, Leyte – For the past years, the National Nutrition Council (NNC) has never failed to recognize efforts of the nutrition workers across the country. More importantly in this difficult times, where the Covid-19 pandemic has compromised and deteriorated the nutrition of the most vulnerable, demanding more attention and effort from our hardworking nutrition workers for…

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