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2011 Nutrition, Health and Population
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Statistics Database
Nutrition, Health and Population Links
World Child Hunger Facts
There are a number of key health issues for developing countries, especially in Africa. They include malnutrition, HIV/AIDS, malaria, tuberculosis and avian flu. This page provides current developments on these issues as well as background.
Nutrition See also Hunger Notes special report on the food and hunger crisis
Also see World food and hunger crisis
Breastfeeding babies is vital, say experts."Some of the [Nestle] marketing strategy presents formula as better than breastfeeding,” Laurence Gray, World Vision’s Asia-Pacific advocacy director, told IRIN. However, in developing countries, formula is frequently prepared in unhygienic circumstances with unsafe water and misunderstood instructions, with bad results for babies. “In poor nations, formula-fed infants are four to six times more likely to die of infectious disease than breastfed babies," said Gray. "The problem is not with the formula, but with the preparation," he added. Photo: UNICEF
Laos: NGOs flay Nestlé’s infant formula marketing, some of which presents infant formula as better than breastfeeding
IRIN News June 23, 2011
See Wikipedia Nestlé boycott
for historical background on this issue.
Lambo, 3, with his grandmother and mother, Samina Tahiaritsoa, at the Centre for Treatment of Acute Malnutrition with Complications (CRENI) in the town of Amboasary Sud. According to the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF), two out of three Malagasy live in poverty and 50 percent of children younger than five have stunted growth due to malnutrition. "Above all, it's the poverty that's causing this," said CRENI's head doctor, Samuel Rasaivaonirina, adding that most wage earners support an average household of 10 people on just $10 a month. Photo: Hannah McNeish/IRIN
Madagascar: Poverty and malnutrition on sisal plantations IRIN News June 23, 2011
Planting for the future Carrie Madren The Interpreter May 16, 2011
Vitamin A program deficiency highlights primary care needs Paula Smith-Vanderslice Hunger Notes November 26, 2010 See full report
HIV infection, leading to AIDS, is a major world problem, especially in Africa. In addressing the problem of HIV infection, there have been major concerns.
The first major concern is that African people and governments have been unable to afford the level of care available in the United States and other developed countries, where (expensive) anti-retroviral therapy has not cured HIV/AIDS, but has permitted substantially longer life for those infected. In the last several years this has been partially addressed by two major developments. First is a significant increase in developed country assistance. The second is the (partial) resolution of international property rights disputes over anti-retroviral (ARV) drugs, which has permitted a substantial reduction in the cost of ARV drugs supplied in developing countries.
The second major concern is the persistence of behavior patterns that permit HIV infection. The three principal ways of HIV infection are by sexual contact, though blood transmission (by drug users sharing the same needle, and by medical procedures, especially blood transfusion, not adopting proper safeguards) and by mother to child transmission. Sexual contact is the major means of HIV infection, with mother to child transmission a consequence of sexual contact. HIV testing will alert HIV-positive people that they are HIV positive, and ideally they will take measures to protect their sexual partners against infection, and to not have children or to take measures to reduce the possibility of HIV infection in the newborn.
Global prevalence of HIV 2009
Grey: No data or <.1% .Light pink: 1% – <.5% .Darker Pink 5% – <1% Darkest pink/very light red: 1% – <5% Red: 5% – <15% >Darkest red15% – 28%
Source: UN AIDS Report 2010 Ch. 2 Epidemic http://www.unaids.org/documents/20101123_GlobalReport_Chap2_em.pdf
Fund halts new grants for AIDS, TB and malaria treatment in poor countries as developed country contributions drop David Brown Washington Post November 23, 2011
Report cites dramatic drop in AIDS deaths worldwide David Brown Washington Post November 21, 2011 See full report.
Fall in funding raises question mark over future of global fight against Aids: International financing for HIV programs in developing nations worldwide has fallen 10% (opinion) Claire Provost Poverty Matters Blog August 19, 2011
Other diseases and health concerns
Malaria accounts for 20% of childhood deaths in Africa. Photo: Getty Images
Malaria deaths fall over 20% worldwide in last decade BBC News October 18, 2011
A special child (opinion) Dan Shaughnessy World Hunger Education Service August 3, 2011
The delivery room of a hospital in Arua, Uganda. The 400-bed hospital has a shortage of doctors and midwives and lacks many basic medical supplies. More Photos Tadej Znidarcic/New York Times
Maternal deaths focus harsh light on Uganda Celia W. Dugger New York Times July 28, 2011
Clinics like this one in Tumbu have been jammed since Sierra Leone ended some fees in 2010 Photo: Sven Torfinn/New York Times
Sierra Leone government eliminates medical fees for children and pregnant women, resulting in huge increase in patients Adam Nossiter New York Times July 17, 2011 More nutrition and health stories
Recent infections have made Chad the country with the highest number of polio cases worldwide, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Two drops of oral polio vaccine, shown being administered to a child, given several times at a young age can protect a child for life. Weak coordination, supervision and monitoring; a defective cold-chain; and poor communications are some of the "main problems" with polio immunizations in Chad, according to a new Chad government plan to improve coverage. Photo: UNICEF Chad/2011/Esteve
Chad: Children unprotected as polio spreads IRIN News June 21, 2011 Congo: Measles kills 32, infects hundreds IRIN News June 21, 2011 More nutrition and health stories
Garbage floating on stagnant water, a situation that promotes disease. A new government study indicates that the water was unsafe to drink in 82 percent of water sources tested in districts across all four of Pakistan's provinces. Photo: Kamila Hyat/IRIN
Pakistan: Unsafe water kills 250,000 children a year IRIN News April 19, 2011
Global stillbirths: 2.6 million a year, overlooked and often preventable David Brown Washington Post April 13, 2011
Rene Le Berre, 78: Entomologist saved millions of Africans from river blindness Emma Brown Washington Post December 15, 2010 River blindness in Nigeria: photo essay IRIN October 8, 2010 See river blindness Wikipedia and Carter Center More nutrition, health and population stories River blindness in Nigeria: photo essay IRIN October 8, 2010
2010 other diseases and health problem stories
2010 Nutrition, Health and Population Hunger Notes Home Page
