Yemen: ‘Toxic mix’ imperils lives of under-fives with acute malnutrition
Feb 13, 2021, at 05:03 pm
New York: Since the escalation of conflict in 2015, severe acute malnutrition is among its highest levels in Yemen, threating the lives of half of the country’s children under the age of five, four UN agencies warned on Friday.
Tribal population more vulnerable to COVID-19
May 12, 2020, at 03:30 pm
Kolkata/UNI: Absence of healthcare facilities can severely limit the capacities to deal with any major COVID-19 outbreak in tribal areas, posing a serious threat to them.
Nov 03, 2017, at 10:21 pm
New Delhi, Nov 3 (IBNS): Over the decade, there has been an overall reduction in the infant mortality rates and under-five mortality rate in India, yet the country is housing about 50% of undernourished children of the world, reveals the joint study undertaken by ASSOCHAM–EY.
Experts raise alarm on malnutrition, call it ‘silent emergency’
Aug 25, 2017, at 01:50 am
New Delhi, Aug 24 (IBNS): Several experts and researchers in malnutrition assembled ahead of the National Nutrition Week (Sept 1-7) at a workshop organized by the humanitarian organization Action Against Hunger (India) to discuss various aspects of what they called “a silent emergency.â€
Malnutrition among children in Yemen at ‘all-time high,’ warns UNICEF
Dec 13, 2016, at 02:10 pm
New York, Dec 13 (Just Earth News): With Yemen’s health system near collapse, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) warned on Mondaythat nearly 2.2 million children are acutely malnourished and require urgent care, while at least 462,000 are suffering from Severe Acute Malnutrition (SAM) – a near 200 per cent increase since 2014.
Address double burden of malnutrition: WHO
Sep 07, 2016, at 09:50 pm
Colombo, Sept 7 (IBNS): The World Health Organization on Wednesday called for a whole-of-society approach to address the double burden of malnutrition which affects populations across South-East Asia Region, particularly women and girls.