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 Micronutrient Forum has commissioned a report to provide insights into the state of the world of food fortification. The primary purpose of this report is to provide an objective overview, with emphasis on shining a light on research gaps and challenges in the scaling-up of staple food fortification, especially …
The objective of the study is to estimate the prevalence of childhood wasting and to investigate the effects of drought and conflict on wasting in crisis affected areas within Ethiopia. Original Source
JAIPUR: The innovative programme, Community Management of Acute Malnutrition (CMAM), which was launched in 13 districts, will be expended to seven more districts in second phase. In this regard, a meeting was held on Wednesday in which officials from international development partners, including UNICEF and GAIN took part along with …
Polio-like campaign to address TB burden from Jan 16 The government is eyeing a January 16 launch for the second pulse polio-type public health campaign, this time to address the rising burden of tuberculosis. The campaign involves reaching 12 crore potential patients living in high-risk areas through house visits or …
Five private hospitals — Jaslok, Hinduja, Global, Wadia and Surya Child Care — work with anganwadis to bring malnutrition cases in district down from 43,865 to 7,562 in over three months. Following a mutual agreement with the state government, through enthusiastic participation of five private hospitals, malnutrition cases in the …
insecurity, yet the policy discourse around food and nutrition security in India has largely been gender-blind. This paper, based on a review of existing literature and emerging research, emphasizes the need to place gender justice at the center of all food and nutrition interventions, if food and nutrition security for …
From 9.2 per cent in 2005-06, the figure has touched 15.6 per cent in a latest surveya The government may have been making efforts to tackle malnourishment, but a majority of the measures, it seems, have gone down the drain. The number of malnourished children in Punjab has almost doubled …
The Public distribution system (PDS) is an Indian food Security System for the poor people established by the Government of India under the Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food, and Public Distribution. While the Central government is responsible for procurement, storage, transportation, and bulk allocation of food grains, the State governments …
Question raised in Lok Sabha on Malnutrition in India, 16/12/2016. The National Food Security Act, 2013 is being implemented in all the States/Union Territories (UTs). State/UT-wise detail of coverage determined under the Act for receiving highly subsidized foodgrains and the current coverage, based on identification of eligible households reported by …
Progress toward defeating hunger in the world’s most populous region has slowed and countries of Asia-Pacific must redouble their efforts if the Sustainable Development Goal of zero hunger is to be met by 2030, the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization warned. The Asia-Pacific region is home to more than 60 …
JAIPUR: Naveen Jain, chief of state's unit of the National Health Mission (NHM), said at a meeting of stakeholders on the problem of malnutrition in Rajasthan that the programme of community-based management of acute malnutrition (CMAM) can play a vital role in making Rajasthan free of malnutrition. "This national policy …
In every region of the world, poor diet is a leading cause of both malnutrition and chronic diseases including diabetes, cardiovascular diseases and specific cancers.1–3 In 2013, 38.3 million deaths occurred due to chronic diseases globally (70% of all deaths), with most of these deaths occurring in developing countries.4 Anecdotal …
On the second day of the workshop on health systems strengthening at PGI on Sunday, Dr K Suresh, former programme manager, UNICEF, India, highlighted the severity of disease burden in India. He said that every 10th individual in India has hypertension, every sixth person has diabetes and mental illness burden …
Women in Inhambane province are spending up to six hours a day in search of water, three times as much as before the drought, which was made worse by a strong El Niño climate pattern, according to research by CARE, issued at the UN climate talks in Morocco this week. …
This new report by Bread For The World explains how fragility stands in the way of ending hunger and extreme poverty. Many of the fragile nations are especially affected by climate change, so climate-resilient agricultural development is important. By 2030, two-thirds of the world’s poor will be living in fragile …
The UNICEF, WHO and the World Bank inter-agency team regularly updates joint global and regional estimates of child malnutrition. These estimates of prevalence and numbers for child stunting, overweight, wasting and severe wasting are derived by United Nations (UN), Millennium Development Goal (MDG), UNICEF, WHO and World Bank regions, as …
Egypt faces two nutritional challenges. The first is the “growth-nutrition disconnect.” High economic growth has not been accompanied by reduction in chronic child malnutrition, at least throughout the 2000s. Instead, the prevalence of child stunting increased during this decade—an atypical trend for a country outside wartime. The second challenge is …
This report explores for the first time the scale of the challenge for 20 cities across the world to reach selected targets set out in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). More than half of the targets included will require a profound acceleration of efforts if they are to be achieved …
Although widely accepted as being one of the most important public health advances of the past hundred years, the contribution that improving sanitation coverage can make to child health is still unclear, especially since the publication of two large studies of sanitation in India which found no effect on child …
A major independent report emphasises that the Government of Bangladesh and its partners must rally to end hunger and improve nutrition to sustain the country’s remarkable economic trajectory. Led by a team of national experts and guided by a wide range of stakeholders across the country, the report identifies substantial …
