The United Nations World Food Programme, in collaboration with the Ministry of Health and Social Services, held a "one thousand days" campaign at Tsumkwe.

The campaign was meant to capacitate community health workers, pregnant and lactating women, and the public on the importance of the "one thousand days" of nutrition.

Malnutrition in Namibia continues to affect children under five, with 24% of them stunted or wasted, indicating that both chronic and acute malnutrition is of high public health significance.