Cameroon’s first annual mother and child nutrition action week was launched in January of this year James Achanyi-Fontem of Cameroon Link told IBFAN Africa.

The event, under the patronage of Cameroon’s Minister of Public Health, aims to promote optimal mother and infant feeding and mother and child health and well-being nation-wide.

In addition to counselling on infant feeding, all pregnant women and children between zero and 11 months received free immunisation vaccines and free mosquito nets. Children between 12 and 15 months were also given appropriate medicines to eliminate all types of worms.

Posted by ibfanafrica on 13 May 2008 | Tagged as: Cameroon

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AIDS Included In Primary and Secondary School Syllabuses
by James Achanyi-Fontem

From the academic year 2007/2008, the primary and secondary school syllabuses and the teacher training colleges will integrate modules on AIDS materials. The document introducing the teaching and training on family life education, population education material and HIV/AIDs school programmes was jointly signed last January 18 by Mrs. Raman Adama and Louis Bapès Bapès, respectively ministers of basic education and secondary education.
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Posted by ibfanafrica on 27 Feb 2007 | Tagged as: Cameroon, HIV, Youth

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Read the reports from Cameroon, Kenya, Lesotho, Mozambique, Nigeria, South Africa and Swaziland
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Posted by ibfanafrica on 07 Sep 2006 | Tagged as: Cameroon, Kenya, Lesotho, Mozambique, Nigeria, South Africa, Swaziland, World Breastfeeding Week

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