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Mother, Infant and Young Child Nutrition and Malnutrition |
Every year malnutrition kills 5 million children .... one child every 6 seconds.
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The fight against persistent underweight, stunting and wasting among children in developing countries is based on appropriate maternal,
infant and young child feeding practices including micronutrient deficiencies prevention and control. However, wasted children are those
at immediate risk of dying and will need timely detection and correct management for their survival. |
The orange ribbon is
an awareness ribbon
for malnutrition. |
More than half of all child deaths are associated with malnutrition, which weakens the body's resistance to illness. Poor diet,
frequent illness, and inadequate or inattentive care of young children can lead to malnutrition.
If a woman is malnourished during pregnancy, or if her child is malnourished during the first two years of life, the child's physical
and mental growth and development may be slowed. This cannot be made up when the child is older – it will affect the child for the rest of his or her life.
Children have the right to a caring, protective environment and to nutritious food and basic health care to protect them from illness and promote growth and development.
- There are an estimated 350 to 400 million children under 18 suffering from hunger in the world today.
- WHO/UNICEF estimates 149 million children under five are underweight — a key indicator of undernutrition.
- Between five and six million under-fives die each year from diseases which they could have survived if they were not undernourished.
- 73 percent of the world’s underweight under-fives live in just ten countries.
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For the Whole Community
- Healthy Nutrition
Contains practical and easy-to-understand information about the principles of healthy nutrition.
- Malnutrition
Contains a simple explanation about malnutrition and an overview about the malnutrition situation in India and Maharashtra for the general public.
- Nutrition in the Context of HIV/AIDS
The HIV pandemic and the risk of mother to child transmission of HIV through breastfeeding pose unique challenges to promotion of breastfeeding. It is important to promote HIV Individual counselling and Testing among all pregnant and lactating women.
Practitioners and Program Managers
- Protection, Promotion and Support of Healthy Maternal, Infant and Young Child Feeding
This section looks at healthy nutrition from a programmatic point of view. It includes links with high impact nutrition interventions and an introduction on the ENA approach to support planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of high-impact nutrition interventions.
- Early Detection and Referral of Children with Malnutrition
Looks at feasible ways to timely detect and refer children with malnutrition from primary health care units and communities. It
is intended to increase coverage through active case finding and referral of children with malnutrition at all contact points before the onset of life threatening complications.
- Management of Child Malnutrition
Looks at the severely malnourished, with an in-patient outline based on WHO standards and updates from Professor Michael Golden and an out-patient outline based mainly on
the Community-based Therapeutic Care (CTC) Field Manual by the CTC Research and Development program (collaboration between Valid International and Concern Worldwide).
- Information Management Systems
Provides insights on key indicators and means of verification.
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24 July, 2008
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