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Burkina Faso government responds to nutrition critics with money, promises

Burkina Faso's health ministry has responded to criticism by international aid organisations of its malnutrition policies, which have led to a 10-year downward slide of malnutrition rates among children, by calling on them to join it in a new coordinated effort.

16 Aug 2007

“For the first time, a budget is going to be allocated to combat malnutrition [and this money will be used by all departments],” Sylvestre Tapsoba, the health ministry official in charge of nutrition, announced to IRIN in an exclusive interview last week, following a cabinet-level meeting attended by the President and Prime Minister on malnutrition in July.

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