Malnutrition Awareness Week is observed from September 16-20, 2024 Malnutrition can lead to serious health complications, including increased risk of infections and decreased quality of life ...

For any country to do well as far as the health of its population is concerned, the focus has to be at the right points of breaking the intergenerational cycle of Malnutrition. According to UNICEF, ...

“We will wait for five more minutes. If Marso doesn’t respond, it means he’s gone.” These were the most painful words Angelita Salonga, 28, had to hear about her 2-year-old son, whom doctors had ...

hen we talk about malnutrition, we often think of a very young child who is not getting enough to eat. The reality in Indonesia, though, is more complex: adolescents are also facing a nutrition crisis ...

The period of the first 1000 days of an infant's life (measured from the mother's pregnancy to the child's second birthday) is the most critical window to shape a child's development. Within this ...

MANILA, Philippines – It is likely that children born to malnourished mothers suffer the same fate. During pregnancy, a woman needs a great amount of energy and special nutrients to keep her body ...

More than one-fifth of the world's population live in extreme poverty, where a lack of safe water and adequate sanitation enables high rates of enteric infections and diarrhoea to continue unabated.

MANILA, Philippines — President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. on Friday urged local chief executives to commit to addressing the problem of nutrition in their jurisdictions in a bid to break the cycle of ...

Background. Enteroaggregative Escherichia coli is emerging as an increasingly recognized cause of persistent, mildly inflammatory diarrhea in the United States, especially among patients with AIDS, as ...