West Africa, like most low- and middle-income countries, faces the triple burden of malnutrition.
Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) such as diabetes are the leading cause of death globally. In the last decade, Kenya has observed a significant rise in obesity, a major NCD risk factor.
South Africa has sub-Saharan Africa’s highest levels of obesity, with approximately 70% of women and 30% of men in South Africa either overweight or obese.
Low and middle-income countries are experiencing the burden of nutrition-related non-communicable diseases (NCDs) such as diabetes, largely driven by increasingly unhealthy food environments.
Recent outbreaks of the highly infectious and dangerous Ebola virus in West and Central Africa underscore the importance of rapid diagnostics and surveillance infrastructure, evidence-driven health communications and community engagement activitie
South Africa has one of the highest burdens of diet-related non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in Africa. For example, 42% of women in the country and one-third of men are overweight or obese.
Increasing consumption of unhealthy diets is fuelling the growing burden of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) across Sub-Saharan Africa.
The nutrition transition towards unhealthy and unsustainable patterns of food production and consumption in sub-Saharan Africa has resulted in micro and macronutrient deficiencies and the contrasting, but concurrent, rise in overweight and obesity
There is a rising burden of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) across Africa, driven in part by the increasing consumption of unhealthy diets (including ultra-processed and fast foods).
The food environment in many developing countries in Africa is deteriorating.