Indonesia’s Free Nutritious Meals programme is scheduled to pilot in December, benefiting about 82.9 million residents in its first two years of operations.

The second campaign in 2023 to give free vitamin A supplements to children from 6-35 months nationwide will take place from December 1, heard a meeting on November 28.

The Ministry of Health held a seminar in Hanoi on November 6 to review the improvement of public healthcare, physical well-being of ethnic minority people and the prevention of child malnutrition, under Project No. 7 of the National Target Programme on Socio-economic Development in Ethnic Minority and Mountainous Areas.

Vietnam reported about 700,000 cases of acute malnutrition each year, of which about 230,000 were severe and required medical treatment, according to Huynh Nam Phuong, deputy director of the Food and Nutrition Training Centre under the National Institute of Nutrition.

The Vietnam Red Cross Society on June 14 signed a three-year agreement with FrieslandCampina Vietnam for a communication project on nutrition education and physical strength development in children.