Nutritional status of school children in South-west Nigeria: Inferences from a national homegrown school feeding programme.

Background: The School Feeding Programme if properly executed has the capacity to improve the nutritional status of the school children.

Objective: To assess the nutritional status of school children in Ondo State Nigeria given that the National Home-Grown School Feeding Programme (NHGSFP) has been operational in the state for over five years.

Methods: This was a descriptive cross-sectional study.

Protocol for the crowdsourced image-based morbidity hotspot surveillance for neglected tropical diseases (CIMS-NTDs).

Introduction: Efficient NTDs elimination strategies require effective surveillance and targeted interventions. Traditional methods are costly and time-consuming, often failing to cover entire populations in case of movement restrictions. To address these challenges, a morbidity image-based surveillance system is being developed.

Knowledge of school teachers and the associating factors in the effective delivery of the school health programme in Nigeria.

Introduction: the important position that teachers occupy in school settings make them indispensable in the effective delivery of the School Health Programme (SHP). This study assessed the SHP knowledge of primary school teachers and the perception of their roles in the successful delivery of the programme in Ondo State, Nigeria.

Methods: this was a cross-sectional descriptive study.