Child deaths from wasting are predictable and preventable: WHO chief

Worldwide, 45 million children under five are wasted, meaning they are dangerously thin for their height, and roughly one million die each year from the condition, the Director-General of the World Health Organization told the Global Food Security Summit held on Monday in London.

Read the full article at:

https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2023/11/1143787

Child deaths from wasting are predictable and preventable: WHO chief

Spread of hepatitis B in children under five, lowest in decades: WHO

27 Jul 2020

The global prevalence of potentially-deadly hepatitis B in children under age five, dropped to under one per cent in 2019 – down from 5 per cent in the pre-vaccine decades between the 1980s and early 2000s, the World Health Organization (WHO) reported on Monday.

Scale-up action to combat child malnutrition in Africa’s Sahel

06 Apr 2022

An estimated 6.3 million children under five, in six countries in Africa’s Sahel region, will suffer from wasting this year, UN agencies and their partners warned in a publication issued on Wednesday.

UNICEF seeks $165 million for therapeutic food to combat ‘silent killer’

15 Oct 2024

Nearly two million children suffering from severe wasting are at risk of death due to funding shortages for life-saving Ready-to-use-Therapeutic-Food (RUTF) to treat the condition, which is the most dangerous form of malnutrition.