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

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.

Similarly, the global acute malnutrition rate for children dropped from 21.8 per cent in 2004 to 11.9 per cent in 2005.

During the period from 1987 to 2002, the rate of chronic malnutrition declined from 58 per cent to 49 per cent.

To combat malnutrition.

A. malnutrition and undernutrition

The End of Hunger and Malnutrition

Table 2 Global malnutrition by region ( )

In Bangladesh, where the rate of malnutrition is among the highest in the world, an affordable vitamin and mineral supplement is now available that can be added to porridge and soup.

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

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

Desi likely suffers from undiagnosed malnutrition herself.

Child mortality and malnutrition rates likewise improved.

Severe malnutrition in early childhood harms cognitive development.

For every person saved from malnutrition through climate policies, the same money could have saved half a million people from micronutrient malnutrition through direct policies.

Stresses the benefits of food micro algae as a concrete aid in reducing acute malnutrition in food emergencies and chronic malnutrition among severely disadvantaged populations

The delays experienced in the execution of prior programmes had led to chronic imbalances in the diet of refugees, causing a malnutrition rate of 35 per cent in children and an anaemia rate of about 48 per cent in women of childbearing age and of 45 per cent for children.

This year, malnutrition will kill almost four million people.

Solving the malnutrition challenge would be a good start.

Indonesia recognizes the importance of strategies to combat malnutrition.

The pattern of inequality with respect to global malnutrition resembles that of acute poverty, with malnutrition being more severe among the indigenous population and in rural areas.

Fighting malnutrition is the first step toward reaching this objective.

Child malnutrition was a major concern for some of them.

We still face extreme poverty, food shortages, hunger and malnutrition.

Indigenous people in particular suffered disproportionately from hunger and malnutrition.

Many millions more suffer from silent hunger malnutrition and micronutrient deficiencies.

From 1991 until 2003 Iraq underwent hyperinflation, increased poverty and malnutrition.

In Ethiopia, malnutrition has increased in certain parts of the country.

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

Those factors had resulted in an alarming spread of child malnutrition.

In Africa, children faced armed conflict, poverty, malnutrition, rape and AIDS.

(f) To take all necessary measures to eradicate hunger, malnutrition and famine

When the malnutrition became unbearable, people began to resort to eating cats.

They still carry the scars of malnutrition, inadequate education and poor health.

Every year, 6 million children die from malnutrition before their fifth birthday.

Besides the human suffering, the economic costs of malnutrition are huge according to the World Bank, countries where malnutrition is most prevalent lose, on average, between 2 and 3 of their GDP.

The delegation of Guatemala believes that another fundamental problem is the extreme poverty prevailing in the country as well as the high rate of illiteracy and malnutrition that continue to deprive the Haitian people of their basic economic, social and cultural rights.

Roughly 18,000 children died daily as a direct or indirect consequence of malnutrition.

Any solution to hunger and malnutrition must place such women at its core.

Despite Nepal's determined efforts, children continued to suffer from poverty, illiteracy and malnutrition.

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.

That help is needed, because Ethiopians are prone to malnutrition, disease, and natural calamity.

Pockets in the south west also show extremely high seasonal malnutrition at this time.

In several countries, including Mali, Mauritania and Niger, vulnerable populations suffered from severe malnutrition.

A comprehensive campaign against the major diseases (STD AIDS, leprosy, tuberculosis, malaria, diarrhoea, malnutrition).