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Malnutrition claims 7 kids in Satna district, India
12 June 2008
Malnutrition deaths in
Madhya Pradesh, India June 2008 Report in Hindi
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India's children bearing brunt of costly food
19 May 2008 - Delhi: More than 1.5 m children in India are at risk of becoming malnourished because of rising global food prices, the UN children's charity, UNICEF,
says.
It warns that food inflation could be devastating for vulnerable women and children right across South Asia.
The region already has the largest number of malnourished children in the world and levels could get even worse.
Even before the current crisis almost half of all Indian children showed signs of stunted growth, UNICEF says.
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51% of Indian children stunted by undernutrition - Child undernutrition, micronutrient deficiencies in India among highest in the world
15 May 2008 - New Delhi: The Lancet has warned that children would suffer irreversible damage in adult life unless proper nutritional interventions are delivered before
the age of two. Launching a five-part series of research papers on maternal and child undernutrition, the international medical journal said the prevalence of child
undernutrition and micronutrient deficiencies in India was among the highest in the world.
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A suffering Bharat vs shining India
25 April 2008 - It seems that the policies made in Parliament have gone just one way, away from the poor.
The latest reminder is a survey by the National Sample Survey Organisation, which is asking a question - What can you do with just Rs 12 a day?
Twenty per cent people in rural India have only Rs 12 a day, of which each person spends just Rs 7 on food.
In Orissa and Chhattisgarh, 44% people live this life.
Ever wondered why people migrate from villages to cities?
The survey says life is a shade better in urban India where 22% people spend Rs 19 daily. In urban Bihar, 56% live on this amount.
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Most of
world's stunted children live in India, says Lancet
24 April 2008 - A recent The Lancet study shows that among the 20 countries where four-fifths of all undernourished children live, India is home to the largest
number.
The reputed international journal says these 20 countries lack the political will to put nutrition on their list of priorities – and keep it there.
The study, however, commends the work being done in southern Indian states of Kerala and Tamil Nadu.
The Lancet Series on Maternal and Child Undernutrition – a global, scientific report by a team of public health scientists – underlines the importance of the "golden
interval of intervention" that ranges from pregnancy to two years of age. After the age of two, under-nutrition would have caused irreversible damage to the child's
development.
"India, with a large population, is also home to the most stunted children. There are 61 million stunted children in India, which is over half (51%) of all Indian children
under the age of five years, and 34% of all stunted children worldwide," says the study.
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Hunger has an even bigger impact on children's health than was thought
24 Jan 2008 - BADAAM lives in the Indian province of Rajasthan. Tetanus killed one of her children in infancy; another is weak from diarrhoea, caused probably by the
custom of keeping mother and baby isolated for a month after birth. Yet she is one of the lucky ones: a charity, Save the Children, has been keeping her family alive with
food and nutritional advice.
UNICEF, the United Nations' children's agency, said this week that fewer than 10m children died before their fifth birthday in 2006–probably the lowest rate ever, and
certainly the smallest number since records began in 1960, when twice as many under-fives died, out of a world population half today's level.
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New Lancet Series Urges Action on
Maternal and Child Undernutrition
January 17, 2008 - The Lancet launched a new series on Maternal and Child Undernutrition, which draws in part on nutrition and health data from Demographic and
Health Surveys and from DHS research. The series provides new evidence about the widespread impact of poor nutrition on many low- and middle-income countries.
The authors concluded that more than a third of child deaths and 10 percent of the global disease burden are due to child and maternal undernutrition. Further, more than
3.5 million mothers and children under five die each year as a result of undernutrition. Most undernourished children live in just 20 countries across four regions -
Africa, Asia, western Pacific, and the middle East.
To download a free copy of the The Lancet series as well as accompanying materials, go to
globalnutritionseries.org.
For more information on nutrition in the Demographic and Health Surveys, visit
measuredhs.com/topics/nutrition.cfm.
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Malnutrition rampant, may trigger
crisis
2 April 2007 - New Delhi (WFS) - India may well be 'shining' to the world at large but when it comes to its children's health the picture is far from glossy. The
recently released National Family Health Survey (NFHS-3), the third pan-India survey conducted since 1992 (covering 200,000 people from 15-54 years), highlights some
sobering facts on this front.
"India should be worried." Experts reiterate that child malnutrition is not only responsible for 22 per cent of India's disease burden - and for 50 per cent of the 2.3
million child deaths in India -- but is also a serious economic hazard. Neeta Lal reports. |
18 June, 2008
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