Child nutrition

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2021 24 March

Disruptions in health services due to COVID-19 may have contributed to additional child and maternal deaths in South Asia

Drastic cuts in the availability and use of essential public health services across South Asia due to COVID-19 may have contributed to an estimated 228,000 additional child deaths in 2020, according to a new United Nations report. Around 11,000 additional maternal deaths are also expected. Clinics and...

2021 23 March

UN launches humanitarian response plan as hunger levels continue to deepen in South Sudan

David Martin | Child nutrition COVID19 Humanitarian field Hunger SUN Country Network, SUN UN Network 0

As hunger levels continue to deepen in South Sudan due to a combination of violence, climate change and COVID-19, the 2021 South Sudan Humanitarian Response Plan was launched on Tuesday aiming to reach 6.6 million people – including 350,000 refugees - with life-saving assistance and protection. The plan asks...

2021 17 March

Child malnutrition rates soar as violence rages in Central African Republic

David Martin | Child nutrition COVID19 Humanitarian field Malnutrition SUN Country Network, SUN UN Network 0

UNICEF and WFP warn that more than 1 in 3 health districts in the country are now on alert for a child malnutrition crisis due to recent violence At least 24,000 children under five across 14 of the Central African Republic’s 35 health districts are at...

2021 16 March

WFP to convene a coalition of stakeholders to restore and boost access to school feeding for the most vulnerable children

David Martin | Child nutrition COVID19 Global initiatives Humanitarian field SUN Country Network, SUN UN Network 0

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has begun to convene a coalition of stakeholders to support governments to restore and boost access to school feeding for the most vulnerable children. At the request of the African Union and member states such as Finland and France,...

2021 11 March

World Food Programme partners with Ireland to fight malnutrition in Malawi

David Martin | Child nutrition Malnutrition SUN Country Network, SUN Donor Network 0

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and the Department of Nutrition, HIV and AIDS in the Ministry of Health welcomed a timely contribution of EUR 550,000 (about 515 million Malawi Kwacha) from the Government of Ireland to support interventions that prevent malnutrition in Malawi. “Four...

2021 09 March

Pandemic derails historic advances in children’s access to school meals

David Martin | Child nutrition Education food security school meals SUN Country Network, SUN UN Network 0

The COVID-19 pandemic risks reversing a decade of hard-won gains in global efforts to provide nutritious food to the world’s most vulnerable children through a free daily meal in school, the United Nations World Food Programme said in a its new report released. One in two...

2021 25 February

Private partners step up efforts to help end hunger by 2030 in the Philippines

David Martin | Child nutrition Food systems Hunger Nutrition SUN Business Network, SUN Country Network 0

Various private companies have promised to proactively support the government efforts as they stepped up endeavors to help address involuntary hunger and malnutrition in the country. This commitment was made as the government, through the Task Force Zero Hunger and alongside its partners in the...

2021 15 February

Acute malnutrition threatens half of children under five in Yemen in 2021

David Martin | Child nutrition COVID19 food security Humanitarian field Malnutrition SUN Country Network, SUN UN Network 0

Nearly 2.3 million children under the age of five in Yemen are projected to suffer from acute malnutrition in 2021, four United Nations agencies warned today. Of these, 400,000 are expected to suffer from severe acute malnutrition and could die if they do not receive...

2021 12 February

Case study on the inter-cluster famine response strategy in South Sudan

David Martin | Child nutrition Humanitarian field Hunger Malnutrition SUN Country Network, SUN Donor Network 0

The crisis in South Sudan remains complex and protracted with both acute and chronic needs experienced at varying levels across 78 counties of the country and Abyei region. Nearly 4 million people remain displaced by the humanitarian crisis: 1.5 million internally and more than 2...

2021 10 February

How COVID-19 has harmed nutrition in Asia and the Pacific

David Martin | Child nutrition COVID19 Malnutrition Maternal health SUN Country Network, SUN UN Network 0

The impact of COVID-19 on the world’s most populous region is threatening access to healthy diet for nearly two billion people in Asia and the Pacific. This is the conclusion of a report recently published by UNICEF, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the...