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Treating Children with Undernutrition
Children suffering from wasting are up to eleven times more likely to die than well-nourished children. This makes wasting one of the most significant contributors to child mortality. Today, on International Poverty Reduction Day we are highlighting a major humanitarian challenge: child nutrition. Good nutrition ...
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China donates US$ 1 million to Senegal for the treatment of children suffering from severe wasting
Dakar, 11 November 2020, , –, As part of the response to COVID-19, the Government of China has donated a US$1 million grant to Senegal to accelerate UNICEF's efforts to improve the treatment of children suffering from severe wasting. Senegal is one of six countries receiving financial support within the framework...
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HEALTHY WEIGHT AMONG CHILDREN
Child overweight and obesity rates have grown rapidly in urban and rural areas of China. The 2015 Global Burden of Disease report estimates that 15 million children aged 2-19 years old are obese in China. Based on a national report on nutrition and noncommunicable diseases in 2020, the prevalence of overweight (in...
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As more go hungry and malnutrition persists, achieving Zero Hunger by 2030 in doubt, UN report warns
Rome, 13 July 2020, – More people are going hungry, an annual study by the United Nations has found. Tens of millions have joined the ranks of the chronically undernourished over the past five years, and countries around the world continue to struggle with multiple forms of malnutrition. The latest edition of the State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World ,…, The hunger numbers explained, In this edition, critical data updates for China ...
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Global Report on Food Crises reveals scope of food crises as COVID-19 poses new risks to vulnerable countries
21 April 2020, Brussels/Rome/New York, – Today an international alliance of UN, governmental, and nongovernmental agencies working to address the root causes of extreme hunger have released a new edition of their annual Global Report on Food Crises ., Key findings of the Global Report, The report by the Global Net...
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A Child's First 1,000 Days Last Forever
Beijing, 18 April 2013 – , A new UNICEF report issued today offers evidence that real progress is being made in the fight against stunted growth – the hidden face of poverty for 165 million children under the age of five. The report shows that accelerated progress is both possible and necessary. zh-cn-first-1000...
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Lifelong effects of infant malnutrition
Bejing, 22 February 2012 – , A global disease that condemns millions of children to a life of disadvantage before the age two also seriously affects China. This disease is called “stunting,” a little known outcome of chronic malnutrition. Stunting's effect is permanent, yet at the same time, it is preventable. Recently UNICEF's Executive Director, , Anthony Lake, has written an opinion piece for Time.com called stunting ‘, OUR VIEW: Stunting is ...
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Our View: Stunting is the Global Crisis You’ve Never Heard Of
Suppose I asked you to imagine a courtroom in which a stern judge peers with indifference at a baby — and off-handedly condemns the infant either to death or a life shorter than her peers, with poorer cognitive capacity, more likelihood of disease and less ability to learn at school and earn as an adult. Of course, you would say this is…, Lake is the executive director of the United Nations Children's Fund.