Crowther said the situation is particularly alarming also because of the new violence outbreak which prevents people from accessing food, warning that the worst of the food crisis is yet to come "We anticipated an increase in malnutrition cases due to food insecurity but this has come too early ...
As hopes of an end to the 20 year civil war in Sudan were raised by new talks taking place in Kenya this week, charities reported that the health situation in the south was deteriorating. As Dr John Garang, leader of the Sudan People's Liberation Movement met Ali Osman Mohamed Taha, ...
[citation needed] Countries that remained closed to external trade (e.g. North Korea) have not improved or have worsened their food situation. Some anti-globalization groups insist on "food sovereignty", i.e. the idea that each country should be physically self sufficient in every food item ...
For that reason the case load ratios of S-muac, S-whz and S-both reported in papers I and II [16, 17] were not used in any calculation. To fairly represent the situation of SAM children in the community we used the data previously published from representative community surveys [12]....
There is a rural–urban gap in poverty disfavouring rural areas where eight out of ten households are living below the poverty line of 1.25 dollars a day while in urban areas it is less than seven out of ten [41]. Since 1997 and until now the political situation in the country has ...
There is a rural–urban gap in poverty disfavouring rural areas where eight out of ten households are living below the poverty line of 1.25 dollars a day while in urban areas it is less than seven out of ten [41]. Since 1997 and until now the political situation in the country has ...
concerned about the safety and security of the aid workers and that the government's actions are contrary to the assurances the United Nations received that humanitarian operations would be protected and assistance would continue. More worrying, she said is the situation of those who need their ...
“Malnutrition has a mortality rate. Basically, our bodies need proteins to boost our immune system so if one doesn’t have it they can be affected by COVID -19 since it targets the immune system. Our population is malnourished and our healthy systems are already in shambles, so im...
In addition, to poor economic situation, the study found that about 15.4% of children were underweight, 8.8% were moderate underweight and 6.6% were severe underweight. The prevalence of wasting was 21.1% (12.3% moderate and 8.8% severe) and the prevalence of stunting was 24.9% (15.1% ...
For the first two papers it uses data from Sudan's joint WFP/UNICEF/CDC/Ministry of Health annual Emergency Food Security and Nutrition Assessments between 2005 and 2007, the third paper is a review of the literature.;Most previous analyses of the nutritional situation in Darfur have focused ...