There are now a number of nutrition programmes in place intended to deal with protein energy malnutrition and micronutrient deficiencies among children.

The figure is all the more unfathomable, given that, alongside this massive wastage and loss, 840 million people experience chronic hunger on a daily basis. Many millions more suffer from silent hunger malnutrition and micronutrient deficiencies.

209. Although the main nutrition deficiency disorder in Sri Lanka is protein malnutrition, studies have shown that there are three important micronutrient deficiency disorders nutritional anaemia due to iron deficiency, iodine deficiency disorders, and vitamin A deficiency.

Her Government was also doing more to ensure that the health needs of Indonesian children were met in a timely fashion, through its programmes on maternal and newborn mortality, micronutrient deficiency, child malnutrition and vaccine preventable diseases, particularly polio and measles.

Infant malnutrition

Infant malnutrition

C. Child malnutrition

Over 500 million capsules from the Micronutrient Initiative were supplied to 74 countries in 2004.

UNICEF and WHO are active partners in the UNU project on Overcoming Critical Micronutrient Deficiencies.

3. Considers it intolerable that there are around 840 million undernourished people in the world, that every seven seconds a child under the age of 10 dies, directly or indirectly, of hunger somewhere in the world and that more than 2 billion people worldwide suffer from hidden hunger or micronutrient malnutrition

Protein energy malnutrition (PEM)

(b) Reduce malnutrition among children

Well, it's exhaustion and malnutrition.

The End of Hunger and Malnutrition

Table 2 Global malnutrition by region ( )

80. The UNU Overcoming Critical Micronutrient Deficiencies project has achieved a major breakthrough in the control of iron deficiency.

Not just malnutrition in general, but there's a very cheap way of dealing with malnutrition, namely, the lack of micronutrients.

Child mortality and malnutrition rates likewise improved.

Malnutrition makes children particularly vulnerable to diseases.

Concerted efforts are needed to combat malnutrition.

Malnutrition is still widespread throughout the country.

Concerted efforts are needed to combat malnutrition.

This survey indicates global malnutrition rates of over 20 per cent and severe acute malnutrition rates of around 4 per cent.

Noting with concern the acute malnutrition that is associated with humanitarian emergency situation and the chronic malnutrition that impedes sustainable development,

An estimated 57 per cent of the Afghan population suffers from malnutrition and long term chronic malnutrition is a likely prospect.

War and malnutrition kills people together with hope.

It is reported that 27 per cent of children are suffering from chronic malnutrition while 9 per cent are suffering from acute malnutrition.

Acute malnutrition or emaciation (excessive thinness for height) is rare less than 2 per cent of children aged under five suffer from acute malnutrition.

Half a million children still face malnutrition in Niger.

Indonesia recognizes the importance of strategies to combat malnutrition.

Stresses the benefits of food micro algae as a concrete aid in reducing acute malnutrition in food emergencies and chronic malnutrition among severely disadvantaged populations

The second best thing would be to focus on malnutrition.

One package, 17 cents a day their malnutrition is overcome.

There is more prevention of malnutrition in the urban areas.

Child malnutrition was a major concern for some of them.

We still face extreme poverty, food shortages, hunger and malnutrition.

Indigenous people in particular suffered disproportionately from hunger and malnutrition.

In addition, Eritrea needs to combat infant and maternal malnutrition.

Paragraph 2 (b) of the guidelines (the extent of malnutrition)

The pattern of inequality with respect to global malnutrition resembles that of acute poverty, with malnutrition being more severe among the indigenous population and in rural areas.

(c) To promote actively the prevention and control of micronutrient deficiencies iron deficiency anaemia with specific emphasis during pregnancy vitamin A deficiency and iodine deficiency

In Ethiopia, malnutrition has increased in certain parts of the country.

The malnutrition rate and the child mortality rate have been reduced.

Adoption of policies and measures aimed at preventing malnutrition and anaemia

Figure 2 Global malnutrition indicators by type of household (1989 2004)