Scaling Up Health and Nutrition for the First One Thousand (1,000) Days of Life.
Section 4
SEC. 4. Scaling Up Health and Nutrition for the First One Thousand (1,000) Days of Life. - The DOH, the NNC, the Department of Agriculture (DA), in coordination with other NGAs, the LGUs, the CSOs, and other stakeholders, shall develop a comprehensive and sustainable strategy for the first one thousand (1,000) days of life to address the health, nutrition, and developmental problems affecting infants, young children, adolescent females, and pregnant and lactating women. It shall operationalize the latest national plan on nutrition, integrating the short, medium and long-term plans of the government in response to the global call to eradicate hunger, improve nutrition, and prevent and manage malnutrition, as one (1) of the seventeen (17) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).