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Abandoned and left for dead as a baby, Fatima spent months in hospital suffering from malnutrition and subsequently spent her childhood in a series of children’s homes.
According to the report, more people die from air pollution than unsanitary hygiene practices and malnutrition.
Source: https://punchng.com/lagos-ranks-133-in-worlds-most-polluted-cities-report/
Africa already experiences serious food insecurity and malnutrition in Africa will triple between 2015 and 2050, reaching approximately 1.34 billion people who will be vulnerable to food supply disruption.
Source: https://phys.org/news/2023-12-cop28-commitment-farming-food-insult.html
And some 1.8 million children are thought to be at risk of malnutrition, according to the United Nations.
Source: https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1721103/somalia-drought-hunger-crisis-climate-change
“Armed violence has intensified the number of children in Haiti suffering from severe acute malnutrition (SAM), also known as severe wasting, which has skyrocketed in the country,” UNICEF said in a statement.
As COVID-19 lockdowns cut off access to critical food assistance networks, malnutrition claimed a record number of American lives, and became one of the fastest growing causes of death.
Source: https://247wallst.com/special-report/2023/05/10/the-fastest-growing-causes-of-death-in-america/
Bagudu noted that the government is, determined to tackle malnutrition through the inclusion of nutrition in the National Development Plan (NDP 2021-2025) as well as “The Nigeria Agenda 2050”.
Source: https://thenationonlineng.net/nigeria-losing-1-5bn-of-gdp-to-malnutrition-says-fg/
Children under five, adolescent girls, and pregnant and breastfeeding mothers will be particularly at risk in camps, where acute malnutrition levels remain high.
Source: https://www.hrw.org/news/2023/02/21/food-crisis-rohingya-refugee-camps-bangladesh
Cook said her mother was unable to feed herself, and began to suffer from malnutrition — with one doctor allegedly even saying she was starving.
Source: https://globalnews.ca/news/9736438/surrey-memorial-hospital-patient-death/
Dehydration and malnutrition are growing, according to the U.N.'s World Food Program.
Elisabeth Faure, Country director of U.N. World Food Programme, India, urged action to address the issue of malnutrition and obesity that India faced.
Food insecurity, malnutrition, and hunger increase.
Source: https://www.legit.ng/1134958-average-cost-living-nigeria.html
He said although the country has made strides in achieving the Sustainable Development Goal number two of ending all forms of malnutrition, the fight against malnutrition is not yet completely won.
Source: https://mwnation.com/continue-fighting-malnutrition-ministry/
He said although the country has made strides in achieving the Sustainable Development Goal number two of ending all forms of malnutrition, the fight against malnutrition is not yet completely won.
Source: https://mwnation.com/continue-fighting-malnutrition-ministry/
“If simple cases of malnutrition are not treated in the health centres, the number of hospital admissions increases,” says Dr Nadine Neema Mitutso, medical activities manager at Masisi hospital.
In her keynote remarks during the opening, Zambian Vice-President Mutale Nalumango called for urgent action to address hunger and malnutrition in Africa to help advance the continent’s socio-economic transformation.
In March, the acute malnutrition rate for children screened in Tigray health centres was 30%; hitting 63% for pregnant and lactating women.
In Nigeria, an estimated 2.5 million children under-five suffer from severe acute malnutrition (sam) annually, exposing nearly 420,000 children within that age bracket to early death from common childhood illnesses such as diarrhea, pneumonia and malaria.
In Venezuela, it was estimated a few years back that nine million people were suffering from malnutrition and hunger while produce was left rotting because the government was in charge of distributing it.
It also found no evidence of chronic infection or malnutrition but noted there could be other causes for Serenity weighing just 25 pounds when she died that an autopsy would not be able to determine.
Source: https://globalnews.ca/news/9388419/fatality-inquiry-serenity-alberta-children-services/