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Ethiopia’s First Food-Based Dietary Guidelines (FBDG) Launched 

Nutrition

The ‘Food-Based Dietary Guidelines (FBDG), developed through a collaborative partnership among the Ministry of Health (MoH), the Ministry of Agriculture and the Ministry of Education, was launched on 16 March 2022. The development of the Guideline was coordinated by the Ethiopian Public Health Institute (EPHI).

Events Marking ‘Data Week’ Underway

DATA WEEK

The first ‘National Health Data Week’ is being observed at all hierarchies of the health regulatory and delivery system including the FMoH and affiliated agencies, regional health bureaus and other stakeholders, with emphasis on the need to maintain health data quality. The federal level event to launch the week-long program took place at the Federal Ministry of Health (FMoH) Monday 14 Oct. 2022.