Full Coverage: Nutrition/malnutrition

26.05.2006 Breaking the cycle of hunger and poverty in Nepal and meeting the goal of halving the number of chronically under-nourished by 2015 seems an elusive task, said Jean Pierre de Margerie, representative of the World Food Programme Nepal (WFPN), at a press meet organised in Lalitpur today.

25.05.2006 UNICEF's malnutrition is directly linked with backward caste system and needs to resolved accordingly.

25.05.2006 With about 60 million underweight children, India lagged far behind other countries with similar economic growth in reducing malnutrition, a World Bank report has said

23.05.2006 The three-month plan, likely to be approved at the Rome headquarters of the U.N. agency this week, envisions 3,800 tonnes of rice and flour being delivered to the region by trucks, mules and porters, WFP deputy country director Jean-Pierre de Margerie told IPS.

16.05.2006 Providing proper nutrition for children below five years is a national responsibility and an obligation of the Government, as it is essential to provide an intelligent future generation, said Healthcare and Nutrition Ministry Additional Secretary Dr. Nihal Jayathilake.

09.05.2006 International development agencies in Nepal are seriously concerned about an acute food shortage in several hill and mountain districts in the western region of the Himalayan kingdom.

08.05.2006 Take the accomplishments of the "Millennium Villages", an initiative of the U.N. Millennium Project, which over the last five years has demonstrated how relatively small amounts of money spent on health, education, fertiliser and other essential services can dramatically accelerate progress towards the faltering Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).

08.05.2006 Intian uskomattoman talouskehityksen pimeämpi puoli käy ilmi lasten heikosta ravintotilanteesta. Unicefin uuden tutkimuksen mukaan kaikista intialaisista lapsista aliravittuja on huikeat 57 miljoonaa. Luku asettaa Intian samalle tasolle Etiopian kanssa. Molemmissa maissa aliravittujen lasten osuus on 47 prosenttia.

08.05.2006 Più di un quarto di tutti i bambini sotto i 5 anni dei Paesi in via di sviluppo sono sottopeso, molti a un punto tale da metterne a rischio la sopravvivenza: le carenze nutrizionali continuano a pesare come un'epidemia globale, contribuendo a oltre la metà di tutti i decessi infantili, che ogni anno superano i 5,6 milioni di morti - avverte un rapporto presentato nei giorni scorsi dall'Unicef. Il rapporto sostiene che la percentuale di bambini sotto i 5 anni che sono sotto peso è diminuita solo lievemente dal 1990, una prova che il mondo non sta mantenendo gli impegni presi per l'infanzia. Ma gli aiuti alimentari ai Paesi del Sud del modo sono carenti avverte un recente rapporto della Fao: 39 paesi hanno bisogno di aiuti alimentari, la maggior parte servirà per assistere le popolazioni dell'Africa orientale ed australe colpite dalla siccità. In Africa, il continente dove continuano a registrarsi la maggior parte delle crisi alimentari., sono 24 i paesi che al momento hanno bisogno di aiuti, principalmente a causa delle sfavorevoli condizioni climatiche, dei conflitti e della generale crisi economica e anche in India le prospettive per il raccolto di grano 2006 sono negative.

05.05.2006 UNICEFin tuore raportti osoittaa, että yli neljännes kehitysmaiden lapsista on alipainoisia. Puutteellista ravintoa saa 146 miljoonaa kehitysmaan lasta. Kolme neljäsosaa näistä lapsista asuu vain kymmenessä maassa; ja yli puolet vain kolmessa: Bangladeshissa, Intiassa ja Pakistanissa. Huono ravitsemus on osasyyllinen 5,6 miljoonan lapsen kuolemaan vuosittain.

05.05.2006

Mother Rukma says she has little time to feed her daughter

One and a half year old Barsa cries incessantly. Thrashing her frail limbs around in agony, she appears upset at all the attention she's getting.

05.05.2006 In the last 15 years, the percent of underweight children has fallen just five percent in developing countries. More than a quarter of children the developing world remain underweight, around 146 million. South Asia -- particularly Bangladesh, India and Pakistan -- has by far the worst situation, where 78 million children under five are underweight.

04.05.2006

hunger

* Millennium development goal of halving child hunger not possible till 2025
* 6,00,000 deaths can be averted with simple health interventions
* Early motherhood is also cause for malnutrition

03.05.2006 A worldwide study released by UNICEF reveals that some 5.6 million children die every year in part because they are not getting enough of the right nutrients. And 146 million children are at risk from dying early because they are underweight.