Nutritional deficiencies

This practice often leads to undernourishment or malnutrition among women and girls.

Undernourished children are more susceptible to illness.

To combat nutritional deficiencies, the government plans to pursue the following strategies.

f Until 1997 referred to as nutritional deficiencies.

1 billion people are already malnourished or starving.

Why would undernutrition in the womb result in disease later?

There is an emerging consensus on the need to address under nutrition worldwide.

Both unemployment and underemployment in the region were high.

By educating girls, we will improve nutrition, promote health, and fight HIV AIDS.

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

In sub Saharan Africa, in particular, the level of under nutrition was likely to rise still further.

These projects will help increase food production, reduce under nutrition and alleviate rural poverty.

Incidences of malnutrition and malnutrition related diseases have increased, and medicine and medical supplies are frequently in short supply.

Insufficient nourishment impedes their capacity to learn, fitness to work, and ability to develop their talents.

Hundreds of millions more women and children suffer undernutrition, illness and long term disability.

Despite the strides made recently against malnutrition, millions more people will be undernourished than would have been the case in the absence of official support for biofuels.

The Committee is concerned about the persisting malnutrition, especially in rural areas and among children under five years of age.

105. Anaemias, the great majority of which are due to iron deficiency, constitute the most universal and prevalent nutrition problem in the world.

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Moreover, in many cases, it is poverty, not lack of food in the market, that drives hunger and nutritional deficiency.

KIGALI There is no greater hindrance to a country s long term economic development than childhood undernourishment.

In 2007, 923 million people were reported as being undernourished, an increase of 80 million since 1990 92.

For example, in two Northern Provinces, there have been serious food shortages crises, caused by tropical neuropathy (due to consumption of bitter cassava, improperly processed) by people with deficient nutritional state, specifically those with protein deficiency.

Technical nutrition will be in an order of magnitude of biological nutrition.

It means nourishment.

This reduction in the standard food ration has already contributed to the high malnutrition rates in parts of the country and the shortage of therapeutic and supplementary food has prevented an adequate response to the increasing number of malnourished children and women.

There are more than 250 million children in South Asia who are undernourished, and more than 30 million children who do not go to school.

The Committee is concerned about the high incidence of malnutrition, infant mortality, iron deficiency disorders and malaria, especially among refugees and internally displaced persons.

8. Urges the international community to continue to support the efforts of Malawi to fight the HIV AIDS pandemic, poverty and malnutrition in order to increase its capacity to cope during natural disasters

Nutritional security initiatives for children affected by HIV AIDS in Lesotho and Malawi are being supported by FAO, UNICEF and WFP.

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(c) Supplementary Feeding

To combat malnutrition.

(g) Improving nutrition.

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