malnutrition

Officials from the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare alongside others pose for a photo at the launching event of SUN Youth Network in Dhaka on Sunday. Photo: Courtesy
Health

GAIN launches SUN Youth Network to tackle malnutrition in Bangladesh

The network aims to empower young people with skills to combat malnutrition and raise awareness about nutrition across Bangladesh

Disaster Management and Relief Adviser Faruk E Azam. Photo: BSS
Bangladesh

Govt to provide food, livelihood assistance in 61 upazilas to bring people out of poverty line

A nutritionist measures the height of a child, who has been diagnosed with malnutrition, at a nutritional recovery centre in Rabinal, Baja Verapaz, Guatemala August 16, 2023. Photo: REUTERS/Pilar Olivares/File Photo
Health

Climate change will escalate child health crisis due to malnutrition: Bill Gates

A mother with her child. Photo: WHO
Health

Mothers suffer most from malnutrition: Food minister

Representational Photo: Collected
Health

More than 1 in 4 children under age 5 face 'severe' food poverty: UNICEF

Palestinian children wait to receive food cooked by a charity kitchen amid shortages of food supplies, as the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas continues, in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, February 20, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Mohammed Salem/File Photo
Hamas-Israel war

UNICEF finds 90% of Gazan children lack food needed for proper growth

Women and children wait to be registered prior to a food distribution carried out by the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) in Thonyor, Leer state, South Sudan, February 25, 2017. REUTERS/Siegfried Modola/File Photo
Africa

Sudan needs 'immediate action' on hunger to avert widespread death, UN-backed report says

Smoke rises following an Israeli strike as Palestinians fleeing north Gaza due to Israel’s military offensive move southward, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, at the central Gaza Strip, March 15, 2024. REUTERS/Ahmed Zakot
World+Biz

5-year-old dies of malnutrition as Israel siege leaves Gaza starving

FILE PHOTO: Palestinian children wait to receive food cooked by a charity kitchen amid shortages of food supplies, as the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas continues, in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, February 5, 2024. REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa/File Photo
Hamas-Israel war

UN agency in Gaza says one in three children under 2 is acutely malnourished

A displaced Palestinian boy, who fled with his family from their house amid Israeli strikes, looks after his twin siblings as they take shelter at Nasser hospital in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip October 29, 2023. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY
Hamas-Israel war

It’s not just Israeli bombs that have killed children in Gaza. Now some are dying of hunger too

Palestinian woman Warda Mattar feeds her newborn dates, instead of milk, amidst food scarcity and lack of milk, at a school where they shelter in Nuseirat in the central Gaza Strip February 25, 2024. REUTERS/Doaa Ruqqa
Hamas-Israel war

Bird-feed loaf and a date wrapped in gauze: What children eat in Gaza

A Palestinian girl has her arm measured for malnutrition at a medical tent set up by MedGlobal in cooperation with UNICEF, in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, February 14, 2024. REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY
Hamas-Israel war

Gaza doctors measure children for malnutrition

Children look on as Palestinians flee north Gaza, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in the central Gaza Strip, November 9, 2023. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem
Hamas-Israel war

Gaza population lacks food, faces malnutrition, UN food programme official says