Getting a medical check-up is never a pleasant experience, and Yasmine, 1, is plainly not enjoying hers. She wails miserably as she is hoisted into a blue canvas scale and then suspended in mid-air for a few seconds while a nurse reads her weight. Report by Simon Ingram, NYALA, South Darfur, Sudan. February 2012: UNICEF [...]
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UNICEF-supported programmes save young children from malnutrition in Darfur, Sudan
6th March 2012 | by unicef | malnutrition | No Comments
Protecting children from an emerging food crisis in Mauritania
22nd February 2012 | by unicef | malnutrition, Sahel | No Comments
Each year, the period between the rains and the new harvest is a lean season, when mothers like Fatima Mohammed struggle to feed their children—in Mohammed’s case, seven of them. Report by Shantha Bloemen, UNICEF. GAET TEIDOUMA, Mauritania But last year, there was no rain, and this year’s lean season has come three months early. [...]
In Madagascar, reducing malnutrition among children under five
9th February 2012 | by unicef | malnutrition | No Comments
Four-year-old Nomy arrived at the hospital in Amboasary with a diagnosis of severe acute malnutrition – a potentially deadly condition – with medical complications. By 11 a.m., he had been admitted for emergency treatment. AMBOASARY, Madagascar. VIDEO: UNICEF reports on the treatment of severe acute malnutrition among children under age 5 in Madagascar. But Nomy [...]
Community-based nutrition programs empowering families to prevent malnutrition in Rwanda
3rd February 2012 | by unicef | malnutrition | No Comments
In the busy lakeside town of Gisenyi, a UNICEF-supported therapeutic nutrition rehabilitation unit is helping give babies a healthy start in life. Report by Jenny Clover, UNICEF. The pediatric ward at Gisenyi Hospital sees around three new cases of malnutrition each week, and is working to bring this number down to zero. The hospital’s community [...]
Feeding drought affected families in Niger
30th January 2012 | by unicef | malnutrition | No Comments
At the end of the farming season. Halima Isaka sat with her 10-month-old daughter at the edge of their family’s field, watching as her husband loaded a pile of dried millet stalks onto an oxcart. With cash transfers, UNICEF and partners aid drought-affected families in Niger. Report by Bob Coen. VIDEO: UNICEF correspondent Bob Coen [...]
A ‘children’s crisis’ unfolds in West and Central Africa’s Sahel region
6th January 2012 | by unicef | malnutrition | No Comments
Even as the battle against hunger continues in the drought-hit Horn of Africa, another crisis has begun to unfold in eight countries across West Africa. Report by Priyanka Pruthi VIDEO: December 2011 – UNICEF correspondent Priyanka Pruthi reports on the growing crisis in Africa’s Sahel region, where more than a million children are at risk [...]
Threat of malnutrition dire in Africa’s Sahel region due to increasing food shortages
23rd December 2011 | by unicef | malnutrition | No Comments
It’s not a tsunami or an earthquake – it is a predictable emergency. UNICEF estimates more than a million children under five will need to be treated in feeding centres for severe malnutrition in the Sahel region of Africa. It is a staggeringly high number, and there is little time to prepare. Report by Martin [...]
UNICEF and the European Union combat malnutrition in drought-stricken Uganda
29th June 2011 | by unicef | malnutrition | No Comments
A passing herd of cattle is a common sight in Karamoja, where the sound of their hooves gets lost in the gusts of wind that carry dust far beyond the village limit. Report by: By Jeremy Green, KARAMOJA, Uganda. VIDEO: 20 June 2011 – UNICEF’s Dheepa Pandian reports on efforts to reduce malnutrition in Uganda’s [...]
Weeks before Southern Sudan’s independence, UNICEF helps children in troubled border areas
26th May 2011 | by unicef | malnutrition, Sudan | 1 Comment
The bullet hole is high on the whitewashed wall of what is, in other respects, a perfectly normal conference room, the kind you might find in a UNICEF office anywhere in the world. But to the staff of UNICEF’s Malakal office, the broken plaster – and its ricochet in the frame of a map on [...]
Lake Chad’s receding water level heightens risks of malnutrition and disease
18th February 2011 | by unicef | malnutrition | No Comments
Yakowra Malloum commands respect as she enters the Sultan’s compound in the centre of Bol. Covered in a bright coloured scarf, with an intricate floral henna design running down her arms, she looks like many of the other women who have gathered in the later hours of a hot sunny afternoon. But this trained pharmacist, [...]
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