The fight against persistent underweight, stunting and wasting among children in developing countries is based on appropriate maternal, infant and young child feeding practices including micronutrient deficiencies prevention and control. However, wasted children are those at immediate risk of dying and will need timely detection and correct management for their survival.
More than half of all child deaths are associated with malnutrition, which weakens the body's resistance to illness. Poor diet, frequent illness, and inadequate or inattentive care of young children can lead to malnutrition.
If a woman is malnourished during pregnancy, or if her child is malnourished during the first two years of life, the child's physical and mental growth and development may be slowed. This cannot be made up when the child is older – it will affect the child for the rest of his or her life.
Children have the right to a caring, protective environment and to nutritious food and basic health care to protect them from illness and promote growth and development.
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Contains practical and easy-to-understand information about the principles of healthy nutrition. - Malnutrition
Contains a simple explanation about malnutrition and an overview about the malnutrition situation in India and Maharashtra for the general public. - Nutrition in the Context of HIV/AIDS
The HIV pandemic and the risk of mother to child transmission of HIV through breastfeeding pose unique challenges to promotion of breastfeeding. It is important to promote HIV Individual counselling and Testing among all pregnant and lactating women.
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- Protection, Promotion and Support of Healthy Maternal, Infant and Young Child Feeding
This section looks at healthy nutrition from a programmatic point of view. It includes links with high impact nutrition interventions and an introduction on the ENA approach to support planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of high-impact nutrition interventions. - Early Detection and Referral of Children with Malnutrition
Looks at feasible ways to timely detect and refer children with malnutrition from primary health care units and communities. It is intended to increase coverage through active case finding and referral of children with malnutrition at all contact points before the onset of life threatening complications. - Management of Child Malnutrition
Looks at the severely malnourished, with an in-patient outline based on WHO standards and updates from Professor Michael Golden and an out-patient outline based mainly on the Community-based Therapeutic Care (CTC) Field Manual by the CTC Research and Development program (collaboration between Valid International and Concern Worldwide). - Information Management Systems
Provides insights on key indicators and means of verification.
“What if governments had a proven, cost-effective way to save babies’ lives, reduce rates of malnutrition, support children’s health, increase educational attainment and grow productivity?
They do: It’s called breastfeeding. And it is one of the best investments nations can make in the lives and futures of their youngest members – and in the long-term strength of their societies.”
– Anthony Lake, UNICEF Executive Director
UNICEF Data: Monitoring the situation of children and women - Latest data & analysis
UNICEF believes that consistent, credible data about children’s situations are critical to the improvement of their lives – and indispensable to realizing the rights of every child. Read more
The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2019
This year’s report summarizes the most recent trends in hunger, food insecurity and malnutrition in all its forms, with a spotlight on overweight, and with an in-depth look at the impact of economic slowdowns and downturns.
Malnutrition rates remain alarming: stunting is declining too slowly while wasting still impacts the lives of far too many young children
Nearly half of all deaths in children under 5 are attributable to undernutrition; undernutrition puts children at greater risk of dying from common infections, increases the frequency and severity of such infections, and delays recovery.
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- Stunting (national and disaggregated) | Download Data
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- Overweight (national and disaggregated) | Download Data
- UNICEF/WHO/World Bank joint child malnutrition estimates (country level | Download Data
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- UNICEF/WHO/World Bank joint child malnutrition estimates regional classifications | Download Data
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Key Facts - WHO: Infant and Young Child Feeding Fact Sheet - updated January 2016
- Every infant and child has the right to good nutrition according to the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
- Undernutrition is associated with 45% of child deaths.
- Globally in 2013, 161.5 million children under 5 were estimated to be stunted, 50.8 million were estimated to have low weight-for-height, and 41.7 million were overweight or obese.
- About 36% of infants 0 to 6 months old are exclusively breastfed.
- Few children receive nutritionally adequate and safe complementary foods; in many countries less than a fourth of infants 6–23 months of age meet the criteria of dietary diversity and feeding frequency that are appropriate for their age.
- Over 800 000 children's lives could be saved every year among children under 5, if all children 0–23 months were optimally breastfed . Breastfeeding improves IQ, school attendance, and is associated with higher income in adult life.
- Improving child development and reducing health costs through breastfeeding results in economic gains for individual families as well as at the national level.
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An Investment Framework for Nutrition : Reaching the Global Targets for Stunting, Anemia, Breastfeeding, and WastingThe report estimates the costs, impacts and financing scenarios to achieve the World Health Assembly global nutrition targets for stunting, anemia in women, exclusive breastfeeding and the scaling up of the treatment of severe wasting among young children. To reach these four targets, the world needs $70 billion over 10 years to invest in high-impact nutrition-specific interventions. This investment would have enormous benefits: 65 million cases of stunting and 265 million cases of anemia in women would be prevented in 2025 as compared with the 2015 baseline. In addition, at least 91 million more children would be treated for severe wasting and 105 million additional babies would be exclusively breastfed during the first six months of life over 10 years. Altogether, achieving these targets would avert at least 3.7 million child deaths. Every dollar invested in this package of interventions would yield between $4 and $35 in economic returns, making investing in early nutrition one of the best value-for-money development actions. Although some of the targets—especially those for reducing stunting in children and anemia in women—are ambitious and will require concerted efforts in financing, scale-up, and sustained commitment, recent experience from several countries suggests that meeting these targets is feasible. These investments in the critical 1000 day window of early childhood are inalienable and portable and will pay lifelong dividends – not only for children directly affected but also for us all in the form of more robust societies – that will drive future economies. Download English PDF | English Summary | French Summary | Spanish Summary | Anemia technical brief | Breastfeeding technical brief | Stunting technical brief | Wasting technical brief | Economic Benefits brief | Investment Packages brief |
Laying the Foundation for Combating Malnutrition in India
The importance of balanced nutrition and health
An initiative of HealthPhone™, conducted under the aegis of Indian Academy of Pediatrics, in partnership with the Ministry of Women and Child Development, UNICEF, Aamir Khan and with support from Vodafone.
It is the World's Largest Programme to Battle Malnutrition amongst Mothers and Children.The objective of this nationwide campaign against malnutrition is to address issues of status of women, the care of pregnant mothers and children under two, breastfeeding and the importance of balanced nutrition and health. The focus is on women between 13 and 35 years of age and their family members.
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The Lancet Breastfeeding SeriesJanuary 28, 2016 - With a substantial development of research and findings for breastfeeding over the past three decades, we are now able to expand on the health benefits for both women and children across the globe. The two papers in this Series will describe past and current global trends of breastfeeding, its short and long-term health consequences for the mother and child, the impact of investment in breastfeeding, and the determinants of breastfeeding and the effectiveness of promotion interventions. |
Supplement: Stop Stunting in South AsiaImproving Child Feeding, Women's Nutrition and Household Sanitation |
Recent global data indicate that 25% of children under five years of age (i.e. 161 million) have stunted growth. Stop Stunting Matters |
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Infographic: Child and Maternal Nutrition
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In the past two decades, child and maternal malnutrition has declined almost by half. Child undernutrition still imposes the greatest nutrition-related health burden at global level.
161 million children are stunted due to chronic malnutrition
99 million children are underweight
45% of child deaths are caused by child and maternal malnutrition
Iron deficiency ANAEMIA increases the risk of pregnancy complications, impaired cognitive development and death in children and mothers. Anaemia, resulting from iron deficiency, affects 50% of pregnant women in developing countries.
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Infographic: Understanding Hunger and Malnutrition
Undernourishment or chronic hunger is the inability of persons to consume enough food sufficient to meet dietary energy requirements.
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| Malnutrition is an abnormal physiological condition caused by deficiencies, excesses or imbalances in energy, protein and/or other nutrients. Undernutrition is when the body contains lower than normal amounts of one or more nutrients i.e. deficiencies in macronutrients and/or micronutrients. The most pervasive form of malnutrition to date in the poorest countries is undernutrition. |
Think you know about food? Take the quiz: Food game: how well do you know the world? - interactive To mark World Food Day, why not see if you can make your culinary knowledge bear fruit? If you know your oats from your oils, then pit your wits against our food game. With the timer eating away vital seconds, you'll need to guess where different world foods come from, rank countries by rates of undernourishment, and negotiate a tricky picture round. If you've got an appetite for the challenge, just click below to get started … » Guess which three countries are the top producers of each food commodity » Reorder countries according to their rates of undernourishment » Work out which picture contains the answer to each question >Play the Game |
Global Nutrition Targets 2025: Infographics
Highlighting the key messages and recommended actions
Stunting Download pdf, 1.82Mb 40% reduction in the number of children under-5 who are stunted | Anaemia Download pdf, 789kb 50% reduction of anaemia in women of reproductive age | Low birth weight Download pdf, 784kb 30% reduction in low birth weight | Overweight Download pdf, 780kb no increase in childhood overweight | Breastfeeding Download pdf, 753kb increase the rate of exclusive breastfeeding in the first 6 months up to at least 50% | Wasting Download pdf, 744kb reduce and maintain childhood wasting to less than 5% |
Global Targets 2025: Poster
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| What is malnutrition? Français - Chinese - Italiano Hundreds of millions of people around the world are starving, while half a billion are obese—and they are living side by side in the same countries and the same communities. In this short video, learn more about malnutrition from FAO and WHO experts. Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN |
| What is chronic hunger? Français - Chinese - Italiano Over 800 million people in the world consistently do not get enough food to eat, and go to bed hungry. The effects of chronic hunger are irreversible, contributing to almost half of all child deaths worldwide. In this short video, learn more about chronic hunger from FAO and WHO experts. Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN |
| What is hidden hunger? Français - Chinese - Italiano Hidden hunger, or micronutrient deficiencies, occurs when the quality of food that people eat does not meet their nutrient requirements, so they are not getting the essential vitamins and minerals they need for their growth and development. It affects two billion people across the globe. In this short video, learn more about hidden hunger from FAO and WHO experts. Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN |
| What is the double burden? Français - Chinese - Italiano The 'Double Burden' is when hunger and obesity affect people within the same population. Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN |
| What are food systems? Français - Chinese - Italiano Food systems bring food from the farm to your plate. Fixing food systems is the key to ending malnutrition. The Second International Conference on Nutrition (ICN2) is an inclusive inter-governmental meeting on nutrition jointly organized by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the World Health Organization (WHO). The two main outcome documents of the conference are the Rome Declaration on Nutrition: a political commitment document, and the Framework for Action: a technical guide for implementation. |
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Ending Childhood Obesity The Commission on Ending Childhood Obesity (ECHO) presented its final report to the WHO Director-General today, culminating a two-year process to address the alarming levels of childhood obesity and overweight globally. The ECHO Report has 6 main recommendations for governments |
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