Hunger has been described as a killer, a silent epidemic, killing more people than AIDS, TB, Diabetes, etc, combined.
Professor James Kweku Renner, College of Medicine, University of Lagos, in an inaugural lecture delivered over the weekend, said that although Africa produces 80 per cent of world food, but have 80 per cent of world malnutrition, adding, that malnutrition and poverty are interrelated. In the lecture titled: "Concern For Nigerian Surviving Children And National Development: The Nutrition Perspective," recalled that the Structural Adjustment Programme (SAP) of the Military Government some years ago, created not only social problems but also nutritional problems in children.
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