Undernutrition for under five has been without improvment from 1998 to 2004. as such it remains a public heath issue for the country and a challenge for different strategies.
The Cameroon government is taking the issue siriously and has adressed target by the year 2015 in the Health strategic plan 2001 to 2015.
The institution in charge is the "Ministry of Public Health, Direction of Health Promotion, Nutrition Division. This service coordinates the intervertions at national level and the diversify international contributors ( WHO, UNICEF, MSF, Plan Cameroon, GTZ, LNGOs) as well as private initiatives.
The strategies of Ministry of Public Health are implemented at the District level (178) uner the coordination of regional Delegates (10).
These straegies combine clinical an community based interventions.
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