Agriculture & Nutrition
UN focuses on faltering goals: water, sanitation, energy
UNITED NATIONS, Feb 19 2014 (IPS) - When the U.N.’s Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) reach their deadline in 2015, there will still be a critical setback: millions of people in the developing world without full access to safe drinking water, proper sanitation and electricity in their homes. Con...
Obesity found to gain its hold in earliest years
For many obese adults, the die was cast by the time they were 5 years old. A major new study of more than 7,000 children has found that a third of children who were overweight in kindergarten were obese by eighth grade. And almost every child who was very obese remained that way....
Polio drive to target millions in Horn of Africa
Efforts to stop the spread of polio in the Horn of Africa region are being ramped up with major immunization campaigns underway, targeting millions of vulnerable children....
20 milion in Mideast to get polio vaccine
Health officials will try to get polio vaccines to more than 20 million children across the Middle East to contain a major outbreak there, the World Health Organization and Unicef announced last week. The region was polio-free for 10 years, until a Pakistani strain was detected in sewers in Egypt in...
Government corruption “cripples” Malawi’s health sector
Extensive looting of public funds by government officials in Malawi has dangerously undermined the country’s public health sector, with hundreds of public health workers striking in recent weeks to protest late payments of their September salaries....
Violence against women worldwide is epidemic. More than one in three women have experienced physical or sexual violence, WHO says
More than one in three women worldwide have experienced physical or sexual violence, a report by the World Health Organization and other groups says.It says 38% of all women murdered were killed by their partners, and such violence is a major contributor to depression and other health problems. WHO ...
Does a child die of hunger every 10 seconds?
Every 15 seconds a child dies of hunger, says a campaign by charities urging G8 leaders to pledge more aid for the world's poorest families - or every 10 seconds, according to the latest version of the slogan. But does this paint an accurate picture?...
Maternal health in India: Where we are today
Sunita, a young woman in her fourth month of pregnancy in rural Odisha, suddenly discovered that she was bleeding profusely. It took her a while to understand that the situation was serious and called her husband Ramesh. He rushed home from work. They realized they needed to go to a hospital, but di...
Nutrition ‘must be a global priority’, say researchers as malnutrition is implicated in 45 percent of child deaths
Malnutrition is responsible for 45% of the global deaths of children under the age of five, research published in the Lancet medical journal suggests. Poor nutrition leads to the deaths of about 3.1 million under-fives annually, it says....
A quarter of the world’s children are at risk of underperforming at school because of chronic malnutrition, Save the Children says
A quarter of the world's children are at risk of underperforming at school because of chronic malnutrition, says UK charity Save the Children. Missing out on a nutritious diet could severely damage a child's ability to read and write, it said....
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