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 …
The Chief of Field Office of the United Nations Children's Fund(UNICEF) Sokoto state, Mr. Mohammad Mohiuddin, Tuesday said at least 40,099 children currently suffer from severe acute malnutrition in the state. Speaking at a one-day seminar for media practitioners in Sokoto, Mohiuddin said such children with severe acute malnutrition were …
The focal topic of the WorldRiskReport 2015 is food security. The report examines the connections, influences and fields of tension between food security and disaster risk. It also includes the WorldRiskIndex which evaluates the exposure to natural hazards faced by 171 countries and assesses the inherent vulnerability in the countries …
Half of the children below six years of age living in the slums of New Delhi are underweight, according to a worrying study released by NGO Child Rights and You (CRY). The children do not fare any better with respect to the other indicators of malnutrition with over 45 percent …
Unlike its South Asian neighbours India and Pakistan, Bangladesh is on course to meet the global targets for reducing stunting among children under five. Though the rate of stunting -- low height for age -- is still high at 36 percent in Bangladesh, it is now dropping faster than in …
The anganwadi at a slum in southeast Bengaluru opens at 10.30am, but a group of barefooted children, clad in old and torn clothes throng the premises by 9am itself. The only reason they are here is to begin the day with a morsel of food. But by the time they …
Consumption of junk food distributed by various government and non-government organisations as relief materials after the April 25 earthquake has caused malnutrition among the children of Okhaldhunga, according to various health organisations. Obesity and malnutrition are seen among the children due to the consumption of junk food. Umesh Chandra Ghimire, …
Donors are not responding fast enough to urgent calls for more aid to drought-stricken Ethiopia where record-breaking numbers of children are suffering malnutrition, the United Nations said on Monday. Ethiopia is experiencing its worst drought in decades, after low and erratic rainfall during the spring and summer, leaving more than …
Environmental enteropathy (EE) is a subclinical enteric condition found in low-income countries that is characterized by intestinal inflammation, reduced intestinal absorption, and gut barrier dysfunction. The researchers aimed to assess if EE impairs the success of oral polio and rotavirus vaccines in infants in Bangladesh. Original Source
Nutritious food is essential to healthy growth and development and can prevent the need for costly medical care. Many chronic diseases—the main drivers of cost growth and poor population health—are diet-related. The United States spends more per capita on health care than any other high-income country but compares poorly with …
Forty years after being established with a mandate to generate data on the nutritional status of socially vulnerable groups, the National Nutrition Monitoring Bureau (NNMB) has been shut down by the Union Health Ministry. The bureau, under the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), had been critical in informing the …
AT the age of 12, Tendai Munhamo, a grade 7 pupil at a primary school in Chiwundura, on the outskirts of Gweru, has the height of an eight year old girl. It is not only her height that makes her body look sluggish. Her skin looks dry and flaky, eyes …
Jeffrey Gogo Climate Story HUMANS tend to ascribe titles to certain things or phenomena that are indicative of their own intellectual and physical limitations to things that dwarf the understanding of this know-it-all, all conquering species. Objects observed in the sky, sometimes flying at supersonic speeds, objects that have dumbfounded …
A majority of children in Pyuthan district have been suffering from malnutrition, shows a study. It is said the children are suffering from malnutrition as parents have not been able to take good care of their children due to poverty and lack of awareness. The study shows that more than …
Social protection is emerging as a critical tool in the drive to eradicate hunger, yet the vast majority of the world's rural poor are yet to be covered. The State of Food and Agriculture 2015 published by FAO finds that in poor countries, social protection schemes - such as cash …
The level of hunger in developing countries as a group has fallen by 27 percent since 2000. While the world has made progress in reducing hunger in recent decades, the state of hunger is still serious or alarming in 52 countries. These findings come from the 2015 Global Hunger Index …
Ending Malnutrition offers key insights from the Second International Conference on Nutrition (ICN2) to catalyze follow-up actions across the world. It reviews current evidence on the prevalence of malnutrition and analyzes several salient policy issues crucial for a concerted global effort to end malnutrition – improving food systems at the …
The Food Agricultural Organisation (FAO), City of Kigali and YALA Africa are in a joint effort to combat malnutrition by using Spirulina farming. Spirulina is a blue-green alga (grown in water) that is 65 per cent protein-rich and contains all essential vitamins and minerals needed for a child's healthy development …
Maimuna Katooko sits on a mat at her veranda, all her attention turned to her son whom she is holding on her lap. The child, who is seated motionless, looks emaciated; with pale and wrinkled skin, sunken eyes and scanty hair that bears a golden brown hue. The six-year-old boy …
More than 2.8 million people will face hunger in the coming months in the worst food crisis in a decade in Malawi, where a staggering four out of every 10 children suffer from stunting, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) warned today. “People in some affected districts have already …
Severe malnutrition has killed 45 under-five children in Chikwawa district in the Lower Shire as statistics also indicate that various public facilities there admitted 4, 137 children from January to June this year. Chikwawa Health office spokesperson Settie Piriminta confirmed and attributed the high cases of malnutrition to acute food …
