Full Coverage: Nutrition/malnutrition

24.08.2006 World Health Organization (WHO) said in a report despite a remarkable decline over past 15 years, the current levels of child under nutrition in Bangladesh are still extremely high, said a press release.

23.08.2006 Yli tuhat ihmistä osoitti mieltään Intiassa, vaatien Coca-Colan ja Pepsicon pullotustehtaiden sulkemista. Virvoitusjuomayhtiöiden sanotaan aiheuttavan vesipulaa kuivassa, pohjoisintialaisessa Rajashtanin maakunnassa asuville ihmisille. Juomien myös nähdään olevan vakava terveysriski, niistä mitattujen korkeiden torjunta-ainepitoisuuksien vuoksi.

18.08.2006 Even as the country’s highest rights body recommends that political leaders and civil servants should be punished if they do not address the problems related to hunger and starvation, rights groups have alleged that official neglect caused two recent starvation deaths in hunger-endemic areas of Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh

17.08.2006

icds centre

Integrated Child Development Scheme (ICDS) as an entitlement and played instrument, to secure children's right to food. ICDS includes immunisation, supplementary nutrition, health and nutrition education, growth monitoring, pre-school education and referral services. In States like Tamil Nadu, its functioning has yielded positive results but is uneven in other states across the country. It is the only programme that extends from pregnant women and nursing mothers to cover infants and children up to the age of six. Its role as an instrument to secure children's right to food cannot be overstated.

01.08.2006 Forty-seven percent of children under three years of age are underweight or malnourished in India, with Madhya Pradesh topping the tally followed closely by Bihar and Orissa.