malnutrition

QUITO, Ecuador: Sara Milena is barely 20 days old. Her mother, Tania Herrera, lives with her parents, who are the breadwinners of an Ecuadorian household where they earn US$5 to US$7 a day to feed five adults and support the new arrival.…

Diarrhea is no longer the killer it was in the mid-20th century, when an estimated 4.5 million children under age 5 died of it every year. While lifesaving oral rehydration therapy turned the tide, it doesn't prevent infection. Millions of…

NAIROBI, Kenya: Babies in Ethiopia's embattled Tigray region are dying in their first month of life at four times the rate before the war cut off access to most medical care for more than 5 million people, according to the most sweeping…

Afghanistan has been suffering through a grave humanitarian crisis since the Taliban took control on August 15, 2021. According to the UN, 95 percent of Afghans are going hungry. It’s a catastrophe that worsened after…

Exposure to extreme heat increases both chronic and acute malnutrition among infants and young children in low-income countries -- threatening to reverse decades of progress, Cornell University research finds. Linking survey and geocoded…

That’s the alarming message on Thursday from UN Children’s Fund UNICEF, which issued the alert for 15 countries in crisis where the situation is worsening. No matter the time, no matter the place, conflict creates suffering.Join UNICEF in…

Doctor Bukar M. Galtimar (R),examines a malnourished child at the Inpatients Therapeutic Feeding Center in Maiduguri, Nigeria. (AP)ABUJA: Four years ago gunmen attacked Halima Musa's village in northwestern Nigeria, killing her husband and…

Some young learners are struggling to build early reading skills, while others stumble over math concepts. Repeated pandemic pivots have left students out of practice with classroom learning, impacted their mental health and distanced them…

Scientists at Osaka Metropolitan University utilized a Japan-developed, objective, and simple nutritional indicator called the Nutrition Risk Index (NRI) to unveil a long-suspected yet unverified relationship between sarcopenia and…

Severe Wasting: An overlooked child survival emergency, details that around one in five deaths among children under age five, can be attributed to severe wasting. Triggered by a lack of nutritious food and repeated bouts of disease – such…