Table 2 Global malnutrition by region ( )

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

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

Nutrition and Food Security

UNICEF is working closely with private sector partners, the Flour Fortification Initiative, the Micronutrient Initiative, the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition and the Asian Development Bank, in efforts including food fortification testing in China and Viet Nam.

Figure 2 Global malnutrition indicators by type of household (1989 2004)

(c) Insufficient number of qualified nutrition specialists and lack of specialized university education in nutrition

To be determined on the basis of the results of the nutrition survey

178. With a view to improving the nutritional status of the population, a draft has been prepared on the establishment of a National Monitoring System of Nutrition and the Nutritional Status of the Population in Bulgaria.

(b) Nutrition and supplementary feeding services

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

Training of health professionals regarding health nutrition education focusing on nutrition problems of women and children and their remedies has started.

Malnutrition is still widespread throughout the country.

And these types of technologies, I see, have the potential to transform the face of hunger and nutrition, malnutrition out on the front lines.

WFP also participated in the ongoing work of the UNSCN working groups on HIV AIDS, household food security, school health and nutrition, nutrition in emergencies and micronutrients.

UNICEF was urged to take the lead in nutrition, particularly nutrition assessments and breastfeeding.

Food and nutritional security (SAN) has been a priority of this Government, whose main achievement to date has been the creation of a lead agency, the Presidential Secretariat for Food and Nutritional Security (SESAN), under the legislation establishing the National Food and Nutrition Security System (SINASAN).

In addition, the policies being promoted by the current Government in the area of nutritional and food security are related to the target.

Interest has increased in weekly supplementation for adolescent girls and in the fortification of flour.

Nutrition

As far as the right to adequate food is concerned, it has been pointed out that the problem in Bulgaria is not so much one of malnutrition but of irrational nourishment.

171. Data on nutrition supplied by the National Hygiene, Medical Ecology and Nutrition Centre shows that nutrition is not adequate.

WFP and UNICEF undertook a joint national nutrition survey in DPRK and collaborated on nutrition surveys in Chad and Darfur.

Evaluation of the health education department of the National Institute for Nutritional Research.

General malnutrition (weight for age) also declined, from 21.1 per cent in 1965 to 8.4 per cent in 1995.

224. The nutrition policy targets given the highest priority in Denmark in respect of the existing knowledge of the relationship between nutrition and health are

Nutrition

At the beginning of 2005, however, WFP had carried out a nutritional study in the Saharan refugee camps which had shown very alarming results the overwhelming majority of pregnant women and children were anaemic and the figures for both global and chronic malnutrition were extremely high.

Food security and nutrition are integrated subjects considered in their different perspectives social, economic and political.

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

To realize the targets of National Strategy on Nutrition, the Ministry of Health issued 10 Nutritious Advices , which is widely responded across the country.

(a) The overall poor health and nutritional status of pregnant women resulting in a high incidence of low birth weight

Half a million children still face malnutrition in Niger.

Infant malnutrition

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In addition, the gender disaggregated statistics show that global malnutrition is slightly higher in girls (22.9 per cent) than in boys (22.5 per cent).

Considerable progress has also been achieved in improving the quantity and quality of nutrition among the entire population of the Kingdom.

Progress has been made towards keeping comparative registers of malnutrition rates for at least the most vulnerable age group, children aged under 2.

They are advised about infant malnutrition, nutrition, day care centres, sanitation and baby oral health.

24. Data on child malnutrition from the Administrative Committee on Coordination (ACC) Subcommittee on Nutrition show that, while there has been some improvement in reducing child malnutrition globally, the rate of improvement has slowed down in the 1990s compared with the 1980s and is substantially lower than the rate required to achieve the Summit goal at the global level (see table 2 below).

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

Maternal nutrition

Food and nutrition

3. Nutrition programme

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