Food insecurity worsened around the world in 2023, with about 282 million people suffering from acute hunger due to conflicts, particularly in Gaza and Sudan, according to this report by the United Nations agencies and development groups. According to the latest Global Report on Food Crises (GRFC), nearly 282 million …
Sierra Leone may lose funding for its malnutrition programme over the alleged illegal sale of therapeutic foods meant for malnourished children, an official said Wednesday. The official said unscrupulous business people were openly selling the products in markets after obtaining them from corrupt health officials. “The donors have said that …
Following reports of increasing food shortage and hunger problem in Malawi coming from its communities and villages, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) is carrying out a mass screening for malnutrition in children under five across 25 districts in Malawi, which accounts for 90 per cent of the country. “We …
An estimated 161 million children around the world are chronically malnourished, or stunted. Lack of food and nutrients severely harm children's development. This can be obvious, such as when children are much shorter than they should be for their age. But it can also affect hidden parts of the body …
Question raised in Lok Sabha on Malnutrition among women and children, 11/12/2015. As per National Family Health Survey -3 (2005-06), 54.5% under five children belonging to Scheduled Tribes are underweight, 53.9% are stunted and 27.6% are wasted. However, as per the Rapid Survey on Children (RSoC), 2013-14, commissioned by Ministry …
Child malnutrition in India has declined but continues to be among the highest in the world. Between 2006 and 2014, stunting levels in children under five declined from 48% to 39% as compared to global level of 24%, the India Nutrition Report says. Being stunted means that the affected children …
India committed to work with all stakeholders to eradicate malnutrition: Shri Nadda Shri J P Nadda, Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare alongwith Smt. Maneka Gandhi, Minister for Women and Child Development released the India Health Report: Nutrition 2015" and Global Nutrition Report" at a function Made in India: …
While global hunger figures are decreasing, the number of food insecure people in mountain areas rose 30 percent between 2000 and 2012, according to a new study, released by FAO and the Mountain Partnership on International Mountain Day. Mapping the vulnerability of mountain peoples to food insecurity found that the …
This edition of The State of Agricultural Commodity Markets aims to reduce the current polarization of views on the impacts of agricultural trade on food security and on the manner in which agricultural trade should be governed to ensure that increased trade openness is beneficial to all countries. By providing …
The Governor of North Bank Region, Lamin Queen Jammeh, has applauded the African Development Bank for complementing government's food security and value chain efforts on food production and productivity to attain its national food development agenda. Governor Lamin Queen Jammeh was speaking on Wednesday in Kerewan at the launch of …
The World Health Organization said Monday it had deployed an emergency response team to help Ethiopia cope with its worst drought in decades due to El Niño. Anticipating a surge in health risks, the United Nations public health arm is mobilizing drugs, equipment and human resources to support the Ethiopian …
Khartoum — The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in Sudan reported in its latest weekly bulletin of 23-29 November that the Sudanese government, in its efforts to reduce malnutrition in the country, has become a member of the Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) movement. With the membership, …
CSE’s first Health Annual explores the connect between health and environment, in a way everybody can understand. It will be on the lines of our highly popular SOE (State of Environment) series. The annual publication examines a specific theme related to health every year. The theme for Body Burden 2015 …
Infant and child mortality rates in India have fallen by almost half from the time of adoption of millennium development goals to 2012 but there has not been a concurrent decrease in morbidity and under-nutrition rates. This may be due to a greater focus on treatment interventions visà-vis preventive interventions …
More than 18 million women in the developing countries, including India, Senegal and Sierra Leone, are severely undernourished, according to a study published Tuesday by the U.S. journal JAMA. These women tend to be the poorest and least educated members of society and comprise a "left behind" population of adults …
The federal government has lamented loss of N455 billion annually to poor sanitation saying it is equivalent to 1.3 per cent of Nigeria's gross domestic product (GDP). Permanent secretary of the Federal Ministry of Water Resources, Rabi Jimeta disclosed this yesterday at a national stakeholders' consultative workshop on draft hygiene …
More than half a billion children live in areas with extremely high flood occurrence and 160 million in high drought severity zones, leaving them highly exposed to the impacts of climate change, UNICEF said Tuesday. Of the 530 million children in the flood-prone zones, some 300 million live in countries …
Some two million Sudanese children under five suffer from malnutrition every year, UNICEF’s representative said, urging the international community to boost funding to tackle the problem. Of those two million, nearly 5,50,000 children have life-threatening severe acute malnutrition, with many of those affected living in the underdeveloped east and conflict-hit …
Some two million Sudanese children under five suffer from malnutrition every year, UNICEF's representative said on Sunday, urging the international community to boost funding to tackle the problem. Of those two million, nearly 550,000 children have life-threatening severe acute malnutrition, with many of those affected living in the underdeveloped east …
Thousands of patients are being treated for malnutrition at hospitals in England More than 2,000 cases of patients with malnutrition were recorded by 43 hospital trusts in a single year. There were 193 "episodes" of malnutrition in 12 months at Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust alone, according to new figures. …
Individual countries face the challenge of implementing strategies that help realize the ambitions of the global Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) agenda, adopted by the UN General Assembly in September, 2015. This book presents the Country Development Diagnostics Post-2015 framework and a brief applications of the framework to ten countries.
