Infant malnutrition

For tuberculosis in particular, short term chemotherapy is considered one of the best public health responses from a cost effectiveness viewpoint.

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It is reported that 27 per cent of children are suffering from chronic malnutrition while 9 per cent are suffering from acute malnutrition.

INFANT UNDERNUTRITION

Infant malnutrition

(c) Undernourished population

C. Child malnutrition

Well, it's exhaustion and malnutrition.

Serious cases of kwashiorkor, bloody diarrhoea and serious malnutrition were apparently identified.

An estimated 57 per cent of the Afghan population suffers from malnutrition and long term chronic malnutrition is a likely prospect.

The End of Hunger and Malnutrition

Therapeutic and supplementary feeding rations are provided to children under the age of 5 who are moderately malnourished and or who are at risk of being malnourished.

Not just malnutrition in general, but there's a very cheap way of dealing with malnutrition, namely, the lack of micronutrients.

This survey indicates global malnutrition rates of over 20 per cent and severe acute malnutrition rates of around 4 per cent.

(b) Reduce malnutrition among children

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Nutritional poverty threshold households with a per capita income less than what was considered necessary to cover nutritional requirements.

Acute malnutrition or emaciation (excessive thinness for height) is rare less than 2 per cent of children aged under five suffer from acute malnutrition.

They suffered the effects of poor nutrition and diseases.

Protein energy malnutrition (PEM)

Malnutrition is still widespread throughout the country.

A malnourished child being measured as part of the supplemental feeding program.

Especially acute is the malnutrition rate among children, with almost 43 per cent of children under five underweight for their age.

Average malnutrition rates have dropped since last year, from 21.8 per cent to 11.9 per cent this year, with severe malnutrition rates dropping to 1.4 per cent, down from 3.9 per cent in 2004.

People, children were dying of kwashiorkor.

A recent malnutrition survey completed in 1999 had shown that malnutrition rates had fallen significantly from 6 per cent in the early 1990s to the current rate of 1.9 per cent.

The Committee is concerned about the persisting malnutrition, especially in rural areas and among children under five years of age.

Noting with concern the acute malnutrition that is associated with humanitarian emergency situation and the chronic malnutrition that impedes sustainable development,

Table 2 Global malnutrition by region ( )

Concerted efforts are needed to combat malnutrition.

Concerted efforts are needed to combat malnutrition.

In the camp, 64 per cent of the population were undernourished, 45 per cent seriously.

The malnutrition rate and the child mortality rate have been reduced.

Paragraph 2 (b) of the guidelines (the extent of malnutrition)

Levels of malnutrition have been steadily declining over the past 30 years.

One child out of four suffers from chronic malnutrition, his or her growth stunted forever.

There are now a number of nutrition programmes in place intended to deal with protein energy malnutrition and micronutrient deficiencies among children.

86. The UNICEF nutrition programme ( 236,000) is aimed at reducing children s mortality, morbidity, nutrient deficiencies and (proteino energetic) malnutrition.

Child mortality and malnutrition rates likewise improved.

There is more prevention of malnutrition in the urban areas.

Table 11. Nutritional status of children by sector

The malnutrition index for the country as a whole is said to have risen from 6 per cent to 12 per cent.

It is estimated that 22 per cent of children under 5 years of age are malnourished.

Nutritional surveys showed that global malnutrition rates had risen to as high as 62 per cent in certain areas of Bahr Al Ghazal.