Nigeria records highest level of malnutrition among 77 countries – MSF report

Nigeria recorded the highest levels of malnutrition successful 2025 among 77 countries, Médecins Sans Frontières, MSF, Country Representative for Nigeria, Dr Ahmed Aldikhari, has revealed.

Aldikhari made the disclosure astatine an lawsuit held successful Abuja to motorboat MSF’s 2025 Country Activity Report for Nigeria.

The study noted that malnutrition and recurring illness outbreaks reached captious peaks amidst healthcare gaps.

“Malnutrition was 1 of the biggest highlights that we witnessed successful Nigeria. The malnutrition cases we had successful Nigeria was the biggest successful the satellite and we are operating successful 77 countries successful the world,” Aldikhari said, thing that MSF is moving with the Nigerian authorities and applicable non-governmental organizations, NGOs, to code the problem.

He identified factors specified arsenic clime alteration and insecurity, particularly successful bluish states regarded arsenic Nigeria’s nutrient basket, deficiency of entree to infrastructure, poorly equipped wellness facilities, immense spread successful quality resources and debased renumeration for aesculapian practitioners, arsenic good arsenic backing gaps, arsenic factors that lend to the precocious level of malnutrition.

The MSF 2025 Country Activity Report for Nigeria highlighted a twelvemonth marked by rising malnutrition, repeated illness outbreaks and persistent barriers to maternal healthcare crossed the areas wherever the organisation works. Some of the cardinal ...