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

Child mortality and malnutrition rates likewise improved.

Other nuclear techniques were used to study child malnutrition and fight infectious diseases and produce higher yielding, disease resistant crops.

Certain parts of the country, primarily the central and north eastern regions, have recently shown extremely high levels of child malnutrition.

The majority of the world s malnourished children live in India.

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

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To combat malnutrition.

In 2007, 20.4 of children under the age of five were malnourished.

South Asia has the world s highest rates of malnutrition and the largest number of undernourished children, who have higher mortality rates, lower cognitive performance, and a greater likelihood of dropping out of school.

Severe malnutrition in early childhood harms cognitive development.

According to Jordan, malnutrition in pregnant women resulted in an increase in the incidence of low birth weight infants.

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

And all working children are vulnerable to malnutrition, as their diet typically lacks the items necessary to build body tissues.

20. Expresses its grave concern at the high rates of malnutrition among pre school aged children, which constitute serious violations of their rights to adequate food and the highest attainable standard of health and may have serious repercussions for the health and development of the affected children

Indonesia recognizes the importance of strategies to combat malnutrition.

The children died over the past decade from malnutrition and starvation, treatable infections, pneumonia, accidents, and neglect.

Studies have shown that a mother's low educational attainment is the factor most consistently related to malnutrition among children in developing countries.

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).

Many are malnourished or hungry.

The WHO also states that malnutrition is by far the biggest contributor to child mortality, present in half of all cases.

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A malnourished refugee during the Nigerian Civil War.

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

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,

While my country, Rwanda, has reduced child mortality by 70 over the past decade, the rate of stunting remains high, with 44 of children under the age of five chronically malnourished.

Currently, further concrete measures are being taken to address the gaps among regions of the country, as well as to further reduce malnutrition and injury related child mortality, the latter being the greatest cause of child mortality today.

Solving the malnutrition challenge would be a good start.

Fighting malnutrition is the first step toward reaching this objective.

Family life is, moreover, very difficult for women.

For them, three square meals a day isn't guaranteed. These children grow up malnourished and vulnerable in miserable, unhealthy conditions (read a Global Voices report).

As a result of prenatal complications such as malnourishment, insufficient medical facilities, pregnant wife beating and drug addiction, children are increasingly being born with physical and mental defects.

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

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

Other illnesses related to nutrition are the anemia (with incidence in the pregnant woman) and the bócio in situations of bad climatic conditions, cases of marasmo and Kwashiorkor are found in very poor families.

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.

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It is caused by imbalanced nutrition or a lack of vitamins and essential minerals that enable the human body to grow and that maintain its vital functions.

3. Expresses its deep concern at the precarious humanitarian situation in the country, in particular the prevalence of infant malnutrition, which still affects the physical and mental development of a significant proportion of children

WFP and UNHCR also conducted joint reviews in Kenya and the United Republic of Tanzania to investigate acute child malnutrition in relation to food aid and other factors known to affect nutritional outcomes.

This year, malnutrition will kill almost four million people.

The single most important investment, according to the panel, would step up the fight against malnutrition.

In Toliara in southern Madagascar, a school lunch project is helping to fight the problems of chronic malnutrition.

To date, starvation has claimed the lives of more than 50 people in the town.