New Study Offers Stark Update: Malnutrition Responsible for 45 Percent of all Child Deaths

[G_j]

http://www.actionagainsthunger.org/blog/new-lancet-series-offers-stark-update-malnutrition-responsible-45-percent-all-child-deaths

June 6, 2013

Today, the latest series on maternal and child malnutrition was published by the leading medical journal The Lancet, and its findings are revelatory. Global malnutrition now accounts for 45% all child deaths worldwide: a staggering 3.1 million young lives are lost each year—a half million from wasting, or severe acute malnutrition—making undernutrition the single greatest threat to child survival.

Five years after this groundbreaking series launched in 2008, The Lancet’s leading nutrition experts once again confirm that acute malnutrition remains a critical global health crisis. The publication goes beyond diagnosis by emphasizing the need for immediate action, with a special emphasis on lifesaving treatment for severe malnutrition as one of the most cost-effective of the nine nutrition interventions outlined in the report.

“We welcome The Lancet’s findings and its call for strident action as we work towards a solution to childhood deaths from malnutrition; a solution which we know is possible in this lifetime because it is preventable, treatable and affordable.”

—Anne-Dominique Israel, Senior ACF Nutrition Advisor

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[GReedDiamond]

1. Love the Fetus...Hate the Child...nt

[ReRe]

2. What a heartless...

... bunch of industrialized nations. This country alone could have saved the world, but Noooooooo. This country is too busy killing people all over the effing world. By God, that's where we pour all of our money, into all the many many many many Private Contractors of the MIC agencies. It's time to stop it. This is the 21st Century for God's sake!

[G_j]

5. sad

the ability exists, but not the will.

[HiPointDem]

3. kr. no bill gates, it's not lack of vaccinations. it's food.

[G_j]

4. k

[AtomicKitten]

6. Disgraceful.

For such a wealthy nation albeit concentrated in the hands of a few, this statistic is disgraceful.