The province of Tapoa is extremely rural, with the exception of their administrative centre, a village where there is a hospital, high school, craftsmen, a cotton-ginning factory, etc. located to the Southeast of the country, on the border of Benin and Niger. The Link NCA survey was carried out on the Gurma people.

The prevalence rate of global acute malnutrition here is 12.4% (NCA survey, 2013). With respect to the severe malnutrition, the prevalence rate in December was 2.2%. The chronic malnutrition rate was also very high at 44.4%.

Diverse factors have come to light from the analysis into malnutrition, such as: 

In the households, women have no money to buy different food,

Households have no money for basic services (health, water, education),

Birth spacing is not practiced (birth rate of infants),

Access to water is difficult (few improved water points, isolation),

The workload of breast feeding and pregnant women is too much,

The quality of care (number of HR, training, equipment, and reception) is insufficient in the Community Health Centres (CHC).

Please refer to the full report to find out more about the information obtained from this study and the recommendations that have been made.