Malnutrition in a sentence

He said although the country has made strides in achieving the Sustainable Development Goal number two of ending all forms of malnutrition, the fight against malnutrition is not yet completely won.

Out of 46,000 children, it is reported that approximately 30 percent are struggling with acute malnutrition, while 8 percent are facing severe malnutrition.

The National Coordinator, The Media Centre Against Child Malnutrition (MeCAM) Nigeria, Mr Remmy Nweke has called on Federal and State Governments to institute budget lines for nutrition as a strategy to tackle malnutrition in the country.

If you manage to save a few people from malnutrition, it would mean that we can bring the country out of the circle of malnutrition,” he said.

Monitoring children who suffer from multiple malnutrition is also important as different forms of malnutrition have different mortality risks.

Malnutrition Elyse Musandji (right), president of one of the community nutrition groups in the Democratic Republic of Congo, teaches members of a neighbouring community how to produce peanut milk from locally grown peanuts to tackle child malnutrition.

Malnutrition main Malnutrition refers to insufficient, excessive, or imbalanced consumption of nutrients by an organism.

Abandoned and left for dead as a baby, Fatima spent months in hospital suffering from malnutrition and subsequently spent her childhood in a series of children’s homes.

According to the report, more people die from air pollution than unsanitary hygiene practices and malnutrition.

After pushing for an inquest, which finally took place in 2021, a second was issued stating that ‘malnutrition contributed to her death’.

And some 1.8 million children are thought to be at risk of malnutrition, according to the United Nations.

Children under five, adolescent girls, and pregnant and breastfeeding mothers will be particularly at risk in camps, where acute malnutrition levels remain high.

Cook said her mother was unable to feed herself, and began to suffer from malnutrition — with one doctor allegedly even saying she was starving.

Dehydration and malnutrition are growing, according to the U.N.'s World Food Program.

Elisabeth Faure, Country director of U.N. World Food Programme, India, urged action to address the issue of malnutrition and obesity that India faced.

Food insecurity, malnutrition, and hunger increase.

In her keynote remarks during the opening, Zambian Vice-President Mutale Nalumango called for urgent action to address hunger and malnutrition in Africa to help advance the continent’s socio-economic transformation.

In March, the acute malnutrition rate for children screened in Tigray health centres was 30%; hitting 63% for pregnant and lactating women.

In Nigeria, an estimated 2.5 million children under-five suffer from severe acute malnutrition (sam) annually, exposing nearly 420,000 children within that age bracket to early death from common childhood illnesses such as diarrhea, pneumonia and malaria.

In Venezuela, it was estimated a few years back that nine million people were suffering from malnutrition and hunger while produce was left rotting because the government was in charge of distributing it.