COVID-19 and the risk of intergenerational malnutrition
4 years ago

COVID-19 and the risk of intergenerational malnutrition

Al Jazeera  

The calendar is about to turn the page over to a new year and that new year brings hope for a world currently gripped by a pandemic that has wreaked havoc for months. Third, the health crisis and the related lockdowns have led to reduced access to health and nutrition services and limited health resources have been diverted to front-line prevention and treatment of COVID-19. The consortium is projecting that the COVID-19 crisis could result in a nutrition crisis for low- and middle-income countries in the next three years and beyond. Recent findings from the consortium published as a pre-print in Nature Foods project that by 2022 this nutrition crisis could result in an additional 9.3 million wasted and 2.6 million stunted children. Our research estimates an additional $1.2bn in nutrition funding is needed per year for the next three years, over and above the Investment Framework for Nutrition 2017 estimate of $7bn needed annually to achieve the World Health Assembly 2025 nutrition targets.

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Addressing malnutrition as a strategic investment in the nation's future
3 months ago

Addressing malnutrition as a strategic investment in the nation's future

Hindustan Times  

As a three-time elected Member of Parliament, I have had the privilege of witnessing various advancements in our country’s public health policy. The high burden of diseases resulting from malnutrition contributes to escalating health care costs for the government as well as increased out-of-pocket expenditures for individuals. Without independent means of livelihood, and subject to discriminatory social practices within households, …

Addressing malnutrition as a strategic investment in the nation's future
3 months ago

Addressing malnutrition as a strategic investment in the nation's future

Hindustan Times  

As a three-time elected Member of Parliament, I have had the privilege of witnessing various advancements in our country’s public health policy. {{^usCountry}} {{/usCountry}} The high burden of diseases resulting from malnutrition contributes to escalating health care costs for the government as well as increased out-of-pocket expenditures for individuals. Without independent means of livelihood, and subject to discriminatory social practices …

UN raises alarm over surge in malnutrition among women, children in Afghanistan
8 months, 3 weeks ago

UN raises alarm over surge in malnutrition among women, children in Afghanistan

Hindustan Times  

Highlighting a grim reality, the World Food Programme in Afghanistan sounds the alarm on a surge in malnutrition cases, particularly among women and children, Khaama Press reported. Mona Sheikh, spearheading nutrition efforts at the WFP, underscores the concerning trend of more malnourished children being directed to clinics for urgent intervention, citing a reduction in foreign aid last year as a …

Explained | What has to be done to get to Zero Hunger?
1 year, 5 months ago

Explained | What has to be done to get to Zero Hunger?

The Hindu  

The story so far: The Global Report on the Food Crises 2023 released recently estimated that between 691 million and 783 million people in the world suffered from hunger in 2022. The GRFC is produced by the Food Security Information Network in support of the Global Network against Food Crises, and involves 16 partners to achieve a joint consensus-based assessment …

UNICEF warns that aid shortage will push Afghanistan’s children further toward deadly malnutrition
1 year, 7 months ago

UNICEF warns that aid shortage will push Afghanistan’s children further toward deadly malnutrition

Associated Press  

ISLAMABAD — A U.N. agency warned Thursday that critical food aid in Afghanistan is being handicapped by a lack of funding, as the country faces a widespread humanitarian crisis. “Thousands of children could die from severe acute malnutrition,” said Melanie Galvin, chief of nutrition at the United Nations Children’s Fund. She said UNICEF in Afghanistan faces an urgent funding gap …

How can we end the hunger pandemic?
2 years ago

How can we end the hunger pandemic?

Al Jazeera  

As 2022 comes to a close, we are facing a food crisis worse than any other in recent memory. The combined consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic, the war in Ukraine and climate change, from disrupted supply chains and soaring inflation to extreme weather events, gradually left millions of people all over the world unable to put food on their tables. …

Lancet report highlights 'massive global failures' in COVID-19 response
2 years, 3 months ago

Lancet report highlights 'massive global failures' in COVID-19 response

The Hindu  

Widespread, global failures at multiple levels in the COVID-19 response led to millions of preventable deaths and reversed progress made towards the UN Sustainable Development Goals in many countries, according to a new Lancet COVID-19 Commission report. The Commission critically considers the global response to the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic, citing widespread failures of prevention, transparency, rationality, …

Why UN global hunger report figures are staggering: 150 million added post Covid
2 years, 5 months ago

Why UN global hunger report figures are staggering: 150 million added post Covid

Hindustan Times  

Even since coronavirus hit the world, over 150 million people have been added to the list of those affected by hunger, a new report by the United Nations has revealed. The goal of ending hunger, food insecurity and malnutrition by 2030 remains a far cry with the latest UN global hunger report revealing that 828 million people - across the …

Alarming hunger or statistical artefact?
3 years, 2 months ago

Alarming hunger or statistical artefact?

The Hindu  

This year’s Global Hunger Index did not go down well with the government. Had the GHI been estimated using the latest data on calorie intake, usually provided by the National Sample Survey Office, things might have looked even worse given that the leaked report of 2019 indicated that consumption expenditure in India declined between 2011-12 and 2017-18 by 4%. Tackling …

Use the latest research to combat child under-nutrition
3 years, 2 months ago

Use the latest research to combat child under-nutrition

Live Mint  

Today’s children are tomorrow’s assets for any nation and hence their optimal development ought to be a focal concern in framing welfare policies. Here, we discuss the evolution of children’s malnutrition research and how India’s battle against child malnutrition warrants urgent policy action in the wake of covid. The next group of factors are referred to as ‘underlying causes’, which …

Failing on food: The Hindu Editorial on child malnutrition and the value of good school meals
3 years, 2 months ago

Failing on food: The Hindu Editorial on child malnutrition and the value of good school meals

The Hindu  

The approval of the PM POSHAN scheme by the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs until 2025-26 comes at a critical time when real income declines and the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic have affected the ability of families to ensure good nutrition. The centrally supported hot meal programme in Government and Government-aided schools, covering 11.8 crore children, will be …

High levels of maternal and child under nutrition continue to plague India: UNICEF official
3 years, 2 months ago

High levels of maternal and child under nutrition continue to plague India: UNICEF official

The Hindu  

Arjan De Wagt, Head, Nutrition, UNICEF India speaks to The Hindu’s Bindu Shajan Perappadan on how high levels of maternal and child under nutrition continue to plague the country, and the impact COVID-19 has had on the gains India has made in economic and human development in recent decades. Some data has been gathered from telephone surveys, community assessments and …

6.5 lakh children to be tested for COVID-19 in Mysuru
3 years, 3 months ago

6.5 lakh children to be tested for COVID-19 in Mysuru

The Hindu  

The Health Department’s “Arogya Nandana”, a new initiative to test all children for COVID-19, has proposed to cover 6.5 lakh children in Mysuru district. The programme was launched to lay emphasis on the health of children aged between 0 and 18 years, including those studying in private schools, who would undergo screening. Parents of children with Moderate Acute Malnutrition and …

Study finds COVID-19 patients with malnutrition at higher risk of death
3 years, 4 months ago

Study finds COVID-19 patients with malnutrition at higher risk of death

Deccan Chronicle  

Washington : According to a new study, adults and children with COVID-19 who have a history of malnutrition may have an increased likelihood of death and the need for mechanical ventilation. Of 520 children with severe COVID-19, 39 had a previous diagnosis of malnutrition, compared to 125 of 7,959 children with mild COVID-19. Children older than five and adults aged …

Malnutrition may increase death risk in patients with Covid history: Study
3 years, 5 months ago

Malnutrition may increase death risk in patients with Covid history: Study

India TV News  

Adults and children with Covid-19 who have a history of malnutrition may have an increased likelihood of death and the need for mechanical ventilation, according to a study. Malnutrition hampers the proper functioning of the immune system and is known to increase the risk of severe infections for other viruses, but the potential long-term effects of malnutrition on Covid-19 outcomes …

Covid Triggered Biggest Increase In Hunger In Decades: UN
3 years, 5 months ago

Covid Triggered Biggest Increase In Hunger In Decades: UN

News 18  

The coronavirus pandemic caused an estimated 18 percent increase in the number of people facing hunger, a UN report released on Monday found, dealing a massive setback to efforts to ensure everyone has access to food. The “economic downturns as a consequence of Covid-19 containment measures all over the world have contributed to one of the largest increases in world …

Nigerian families struggle to survive as food prices soar
3 years, 5 months ago

Nigerian families struggle to survive as food prices soar

Al Jazeera  

With inflation rising around the world as the global economy recovers from the coronavirus pandemic, soaring prices are having dramatic consequences in countries like Nigeria. But as Nigeria has been battered by the double economic effect of low global oil prices and the pandemic, the World Bank estimates the country’s soaring inflation and food prices pushed another seven million people …

Childhood malnutrition in Haiti spikes amid Pandemic: UNICEF
3 years, 6 months ago

Childhood malnutrition in Haiti spikes amid Pandemic: UNICEF

Al Jazeera  

Severe acute childhood malnutrition is set to more than double this year compared with last. Severe acute childhood malnutrition is expected to more than double this year in Haiti as the country struggles with the coronavirus pandemic, a spike in violence, and dwindling resources, according to a report from the United Nation’s children’s fund. More than 86,000 children under the …

Covid-19 Disrupted Food Security For Millions; Will Likely Reverse Progress on Ending Hunger by 2030: Dr Harsh Vardhan
3 years, 8 months ago

Covid-19 Disrupted Food Security For Millions; Will Likely Reverse Progress on Ending Hunger by 2030: Dr Harsh Vardhan

News 18  

The Covid-19 pandemic has severely disrupted the food security and nutrition for millions of people around the world, and will likely reverse the progress made towards ending hunger by 2030, Minister of Health and Family Welfare Dr Harsh Vardhan has said. Addressing the 54th Commission on Population and Development on the theme Population, food security, nutrition and sustainable development’ here …

93 lakh more children likely to suffer from wasting between 2020-2022: Study
3 years, 11 months ago

93 lakh more children likely to suffer from wasting between 2020-2022: Study

The Hindu  

An additional 93 lakh children under five are likely to suffer from wasting, 26 lakh more from stunting, while there will be an estimated 1.68 lakh additional under five deaths in the first three years of the post COVID-19 world, estimates a new study. The study shows a large chunk of the 1.68 lakh additional deaths are likely to be …

Discouraging numbers: On National Family Health Survey 2019-20
4 years ago

Discouraging numbers: On National Family Health Survey 2019-20

The Hindu  

With a debilitating death toll and an economic recession, India has had among the worst effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. But an express indication of the possible scale of the crisis can be gleaned from the data from the newly released National Family Health Survey 2019-20 which was conducted before the pandemic and its impact. In indicators related to women’s …

Need to step up efforts to meet nutrition targets, says NITI Aayog report
4 years, 1 month ago

Need to step up efforts to meet nutrition targets, says NITI Aayog report

The Hindu  

The National Nutrition Mission or the Poshan Abhiyaan — the world’s largest nutrition programme for children and mothers — must be stepped up in order to meet the targets set by the Centre to reduce stunting, wasting, and anaemia by 2022, warns a report by NITI Aayog with only a little over a year left to reach its goals. We …

A Lost Generation: UNICEF Report Reveals COVID-19 Toll on Children's Health and Education
4 years, 1 month ago

A Lost Generation: UNICEF Report Reveals COVID-19 Toll on Children's Health and Education

News 18  

It has been a year since the COVID-19 pandemic began, and while we count the massive death toll and economic losses, what is going unnoticed by most governments across the world is the disruption that this pandemic has caused in the lives of children and young adults. It was released ahead of World Children’s Day and is titled ‘Averting a …

1 in 9 children infected by COVID-19: UNICEF
4 years, 1 month ago

1 in 9 children infected by COVID-19: UNICEF

The Hindu  

Children and adolescents account for 1 in 9 reported COVID-19 infections, according to an analysis by the UNICEF in a report released on Friday. As of November 3, children and adolescents accounted for 11 per cent of the 25.7 million infections reported across 87 countries, the report stated. The future of an entire generation is at risk.” As schools remain …

Covid Impact: As Millions Stare at Famine, Women and Girls at Greater Risk as They Eat Last and Least
4 years, 1 month ago

Covid Impact: As Millions Stare at Famine, Women and Girls at Greater Risk as They Eat Last and Least

News 18  

With millions on the brink of famine in four nations, women and girls will be hardest hit due to cultural beliefs and COVID-19’s economic impacts, the charity CARE said on Wednesday. “There is a huge risk that millions of women and girls around the world are already going hungry,” Sarah Fuhrman, a humanitarian policy specialist with CARE, told the Thomson …

No great escape: The Hindu Editorial on India’s low rank on nutritional indices
4 years, 2 months ago

No great escape: The Hindu Editorial on India’s low rank on nutritional indices

The Hindu  

India’s poor progress on nutritional indices must dispel the hubris surrounding strong economic growth for years, and turn national focus on persisting hunger, wasting and stunting among children. This year’s Global Hunger Index places India in the company of Sudan — rank 94 among 107 countries — with the unedifying assessment of the national situation as “serious”. Strengthening the PDS, …

India Fares Worse Than Its Neighbours on Global Hunger Index as Covid-19 Undermines Food Security
4 years, 2 months ago

India Fares Worse Than Its Neighbours on Global Hunger Index as Covid-19 Undermines Food Security

News 18  

Faring much worse than its neighbours, including Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, Sri Lanka, Pakistan and Myanmar, India ranks 94th on the World Hunger Index for this year. India’s hunger level was found to be “serious”, with a score of 27.2, according to the report jointly released by Welthungerhilfe and Concern Worldwide on Friday. We need to develop a universal framework starting …

Stopping a Covid-19 generation of stunted children essential
4 years, 2 months ago

Stopping a Covid-19 generation of stunted children essential

Hindustan Times  

The take-home rations programme under the Integrated Child Development Scheme was halted for the first three weeks after the lockdown, following which the government and partners swung into action to ensure they reached beneficiaries, which are upwards of 70 million children and 17-19 million women. Under the take-home ration programme, energy-dense micronutrient fortified extruded blended food is given to children …

Underprivileged Children, Lactating Mothers Hit Badly Due To Covid-19; PIL Before SC Seeks Formulation Of New Covid Centric Nutrition Strategy [Read Petition]
4 years, 3 months ago

Underprivileged Children, Lactating Mothers Hit Badly Due To Covid-19; PIL Before SC Seeks Formulation Of New Covid Centric Nutrition Strategy [Read Petition]

Live Law  

A public interest litigation has been filed before the Supreme Court of India seeking directions for formulation of a uniform Covid-19 centric nutrition strategy for underprivileged children and lactating mothers who have been badly hit due to closure of schools and Anganwadis and also due to reverse migration. The PIL states- "The closure of government schools and Anganwadis during the …

COVID-19 could fuel more conflict, poverty, starvation, says UN
4 years, 3 months ago

COVID-19 could fuel more conflict, poverty, starvation, says UN

The Hindu  

Top UN officials have warned that the COVID-19 pandemic has aggravated discrimination and other human rights violations that can fuel conflict, and its indirect consequences are dwarfing the impact of the virus itself in the world’s most fragile countries. Mr. Lowcock warned the council that the indirect economic and health effects from the crisis in fragile countries “will be higher …

COVID-19 induced food insecurity will lead to an increase in malnutrition, says UNICEF official
4 years, 4 months ago

COVID-19 induced food insecurity will lead to an increase in malnutrition, says UNICEF official

The Hindu  

Increase in joblessness and poverty due to the pandemic will lead to a rise in hunger as well as malnutrition in the country, cautions UNICEF’s India Chief for Nutrition Arjan De Wagt, adding that the extended lockdown has hit many nutritional services. We know that in March and April many services were affected, but some such as take home ration …

The US food system is killing Americans (Opinion)
4 years, 4 months ago

The US food system is killing Americans (Opinion)

CNN  

Editor’s Note: Akash Goel is an assistant professor of medicine at Weill Cornell/NewYork Presbyterian Hospital and term member of the Council on Foreign Relation. Just as baseline chronic disease portends a worse outcome for individuals with Covid-19, our food system is our country’s pre-existing condition that leaves us all at greater risk. While there are significant financial and distribution challenges …

COVID-19 will lead to 6.7 million additional ‘wasted’ children, say global bodies
4 years, 4 months ago

COVID-19 will lead to 6.7 million additional ‘wasted’ children, say global bodies

The Hindu  

The global prevalence of child wasting — lower weight for height — in 2020 could rise by 14.3%, translating into an additional 6.7 million children under the age of five suffering from it as the pandemic resulted in disruption of food systems and impeded access to healthcare services, according to a new study published in The Lancet on Tuesday. The …

Coronavirus-linked hunger tied to 10,000 child deaths each month
4 years, 4 months ago

Coronavirus-linked hunger tied to 10,000 child deaths each month

India Today  

The lean season is coming for Burkina Faso’s children. “I’m worried that this year we won’t have enough food to feed her,” he said, staring down at his daughter over his wife’s shoulder. “I’m afraid she’s going to die.” From Latin America to South Asia to sub-Saharan Africa, more families than ever are staring down a future without enough food. …

Coronavirus Pandemic and Cyclone Will Leave Many Indians Hungry and Undernourished
4 years, 5 months ago

Coronavirus Pandemic and Cyclone Will Leave Many Indians Hungry and Undernourished

News 18  

India’s malnutrition rates have improved in recent years, but the country is still home to the largest number of stunted children in the world. This year, however, the COVID-19 pandemic has likely reversed the progress made towards meeting the Sustainable Development Goal of ending hunger, achieving food security and improved nutrition. The 2020 Progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals report …

Fight against hunger disrupted by coronavirus-induced recession
4 years, 5 months ago

Fight against hunger disrupted by coronavirus-induced recession

The Hindu  

Between 8.3 crore and 13 crore people globally are likely to go hungry this year due to the economic recession triggered by coronavirus, warns the State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2020 report. Estimates drawn from data available till March 2020 show that almost 69 crore people went hungry in 2019 — up by 1 crore in …

Global hunger, obesity are getting worse due to coronavirus fallout
4 years, 5 months ago

Global hunger, obesity are getting worse due to coronavirus fallout

Live Mint  

Hunger and malnourishment is increasing around the world as the coronavirus crisis pushes more people into poverty and limits access to healthy diets, according to the United Nations. Almost 690 million people were undernourished last year, the most since 2009, and the pandemic could tip as many as 132 million people into chronic hunger by the end of this year, …

UN: Coronavirus pandemic could push tens of millions into chronic hunger
4 years, 5 months ago

UN: Coronavirus pandemic could push tens of millions into chronic hunger

India Today  

The United Nations says the ranks of the world's hungry grew by 10 million last year and warns that the coronavirus pandemic could push as many as 130 million more people into chronic hunger this year. Preliminary projections based on available global economic outlooks suggest the pandemic “may add an additional 83 to 132 million people to the ranks of …

Covid-19 could kill more through hunger, 122 million more may be pushed to starvation: Oxfam
4 years, 5 months ago

Covid-19 could kill more through hunger, 122 million more may be pushed to starvation: Oxfam

Hindustan Times  

More people could die as a result of hunger linked to Covid-19 than from the disease, warned charity group Oxfam in a new report published on Thursday, estimating that 122 million more people could be pushed to starvation this year. Danny Sriskandarajah, chief executive of Oxfam GB, said: “The knock-on impacts of Covid-19 are far more widespread than the virus …

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