Public Strategic Advocacy

Improving clinical nutrition in West Africa

WASPEN exists to lead the advancement of clinical experience and patient nutrition in West Africa. Our strategy proposal includes linking up with like-minded organizations, Governments of West African countries and their executive branches in public and private groups to ensure the tackling of the high priority issues related to nutrition support across the region.

objectives of the WASPEN Public Scheme

Advance the nutritional care of patients receiving nutrition support.
Work towards ensuring that for any patients dependent on government-funded health programs, they get the highest quality nutritional support care, optimizing the funding
Advocate the notion for suitable economic strategies that promote the availability of safe and effective nutrition care support.

PUBLIC POLICY AGENDA

WASPEN aims to introduce and promote nutritional care as a healthcare practice, providing healthcare professionals with adequate education that would assist in the prevention and treating of diseases related to and/or worsened by concurrent malnutrition.

WASPEN promotes the integration of discipline and medicine to tackle the multi-faceted issues of clinical malnutrition by identifying and sharing information and good practice.

Program Objectives

Public awareness and adequate education on nutritional care

Nutritional guideline development and implementation

Mandatory screening policy and implementation

Research on malnutrition through inpatient and outpatient survey

Training in nutritional care for health and social care professionals

National nutritional care plans endorsement and implementation with funding secured across all care settings

Consideration of nutritional support product availability, production standardization and medical nutrition therapy as a key topic for incoming West African presidents and political officials

Public policy Agenda and Issues To Consider

The West African Society of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition (WASPEN) was founded in 2019 as a regionally-focused organization committed to the improvement of clinical nutritional care in West Africa.

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clinicalnutrition@waspen.org

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