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43 percent of the children in need of an infant feeding program to prevent malnutrition and early death are now getting the food supplements they need to stay alive and to grow.
War and malnutrition kills people together with hope.
One figure for that: 54 percent of the children under the age of five years suffer from malnutrition.
Even as the disease burden in emerging-market cities shifts from infectious to chronic illnesses, urban populations remain vulnerable to epidemic disease, childhood diseases born of malnutrition, HIV/AIDS, malaria, tuberculosis, and mental disorders rooted in unemployment and poverty.
As a medical doctor, I am acutely aware of how hunger, malnutrition, cholera, and other drought-related illnesses affect Africans, especially young children and nursing and expectant mothers.
The Red Crescent, which operates in areas of instability and violence that are often off limits to government health services, has helped reduce the severity of malnutrition and cholera emergencies.
Eliminating subsidies and trade barriers would mean that resources could be used more efficiently, so there would be more scope to reduce inequality and poverty, social tensions, environmental degradation, malnutrition, and disease.
Almost half a million children are facing the prospect of severe and acute malnutrition, 300,000 of them in Borno alone.
Tackling malnutrition would be another effective use of development dollars.
A target to lower chronic malnutrition by 40%, by ensuring better access to micronutrients and sufficient food, would have a remarkable impact.
They decided that dealing with malnutrition is also a crucial priority.
Severe malnutrition and the absence of prenatal care during pregnancy put both mother and child at serious risk.
We can prevent millions from dying from malnutrition simply by distributing vitamin supplements.
Worse, malnutrition and undernutrition are part of a cruel cycle, in that they are both causes and effects of poverty.
This cycle disproportionately affects infants and young children, who suffer devastating consequences from malnutrition, including mental impairment, difficulty learning in school, and poor health generally.
And because it is harder for that child to get a good job when he or she grows up, malnutrition shapes not just his or her life, but also the lives of the next generation.
Even with dozens of compelling investments to choose from, Nobel laureate economists poring over the data found that measures to combat malnutrition were among the most powerful options.
Similarly, former British Prime Minister David Cameron cited the same research at a 2013 meeting on “Nutrition for Growth,” when G8 governments committed to spending $4.15 billion more on the fight against malnutrition.
It is just one weapon in the fight against malnutrition – the arsenal also includes education and targeted initiatives such as providing supplements to mothers and newborns – but a very important one.
Obasanjo has called on Muslim farmers in the area to cull their birds, a key source of protein in a region where malnutrition is a constant threat.
Africa’s Diaspora to the RescueDAKAR – There is something dismally familiar about the tide of news reports concerning Africa’s increased suffering – more poverty, malnutrition, civil strife, and death – in the face of the recent global financial crisis.
We know how to treat TB, just like we know how to reduce child deaths and rein in malnutrition.
For every major problem - hunger, illiteracy, malnutrition, malaria, AIDS, drought, and so forth - there are practical solutions that are proven and affordable.
Hunger and malnutrition are not primarily the result of insufficient food production; they are the result of poverty and inequality, particularly in rural areas, where 75% of the world’s poor still reside.
I am inclined to believe that the problem of malnutrition in poor countries has little to do with technology or development as such.
Even so, once the political causes of famine and malnutrition in developing countries are resolved, the use of modern biotechnology in agriculture and food production could potentially make an immense contribution to social welfare and economic advancement.
As an African doctor, I know that the ravages of serious malnutrition and hunger are not always visible.
Chronic malnutrition, or “hidden hunger,” shows itself in other ways – but it can be just as devastating and deadly.
And while deaths from many other diseases, including acute malnutrition, have declined, hidden hunger remains pervasive.
But the stunting of early childhood growth as a result of malnutrition remains high, dropping by only about 1% over the same period.
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