malnutrition

FILE PHOTO: Palestinian children wait to receive food cooked by a charity kitchen amid shortages of food supplies, as the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas continues, in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, February 5, 2024. REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa/File Photo
Hamas-Israel war

UN agency in Gaza says one in three children under 2 is acutely malnourished

A displaced Palestinian boy, who fled with his family from their house amid Israeli strikes, looks after his twin siblings as they take shelter at Nasser hospital in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip October 29, 2023. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY
Hamas-Israel war

It’s not just Israeli bombs that have killed children in Gaza. Now some are dying of hunger too

Palestinian woman Warda Mattar feeds her newborn dates, instead of milk, amidst food scarcity and lack of milk, at a school where they shelter in Nuseirat in the central Gaza Strip February 25, 2024. REUTERS/Doaa Ruqqa
Hamas-Israel war

Bird-feed loaf and a date wrapped in gauze: What children eat in Gaza

A Palestinian girl has her arm measured for malnutrition at a medical tent set up by MedGlobal in cooperation with UNICEF, in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, February 14, 2024. REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY
Hamas-Israel war

Gaza doctors measure children for malnutrition

Children look on as Palestinians flee north Gaza, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in the central Gaza Strip, November 9, 2023. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem
Hamas-Israel war

Gaza population lacks food, faces malnutrition, UN food programme official says

In 2017, Bangladesh saw the largest influx of the Rohingyas from neighboring Myanmar. Photo: Salahuddin Ahmed
Bangladesh

Six years after fleeing violence, Rohingya families survive on rice and oil, says Save the Children

Micronutrient deficiency of adolescent girls by seasonality and salinity. Vitamin (OH) D deficiency (< 30 nmol/L), vitamin (OH) D insufficiency (< 50 nmol/L), Iron Deficiency (Ferritin < 15 ug/L) and VAD (Serum retinol < 30 ug/dL). Statistical significance (P < 0.005) has been denoted by asterisk: *Pearson’s chi-square test. Note: Different agro-aquatic ecological zone- HS, High saline; MS, Medium saline; LS, Low saline; FW, Fresh water, and PP, Processing plant. Credit: Scientific Reports (2023). DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-33636-8
Health

Study finds adolescent girls in Bangladesh vulnerable to malnutrition

FILE PHOTO: Somali displaced mother Binti Moalim Hassan lays beside her malnourished 3-year-old daughter Faduma in a hospital in Mogadishu, Somalia October 25, 2022. REUTERS/Feisal Omar
Africa

Nearly a million Sahel children face 'severe wasting', UN says

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Supplement

Rising commodity prices will increase malnutrition

Amina Ali, a Somali woman affected by the worsening drought due to failed rain seasons, holds her child inside their makeshift shelter at the Alla Futo camp for internally displaced people in the outskirts of Mogadishu, Somalia September 23, 2022. REUTERS/Feisal Omar
Africa

One child a minute being admitted for malnutrition treatment in Somalia: UNICEF

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Africa

Over half a million young children in Somalia face acute malnutrition

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Health

Capacity building, awareness vital to prevent malnutrition in Bandarban: Stakeholders

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Health

Price hike of baby food puts child nutrition at risk