Agenda item 15.4 - Maternal, infant and young child nutrition

World Cancer Research Fund International notes their concern for the stagnating progress on global nutrition targets. Obesity, which increases the risk of 13 types of cancer, is now the most prevalent form of malnutrition among school-aged children and adolescents globally. Without intervention countries will face lifetime health and economic impacts.

We urge Member States to champion the WHO Acceleration Plan to STOP Obesity, integrate nutrition targets into national policies (including within national cancer control plans), implement and enforce fiscal policies (like sugar-sweetened beverage taxes), and protect breastfeeding (including restricting unregulated digital advertising of breast-milk substitutes). Multisectoral action, with robust conflict-of-interest safeguards, must be intensified.