A World Bank Specialist on Welfare Economics, Prof. Foluso Okunmadewa says Nigeria loses 1.5 billion dollars in Gross Domestic Product (GDP) annually to vitamin and mineral deficiencies.

About 37 per cent of Nigerians are suffering from malnutrition, the Minister of state for Budget and National Planning, Zainab Ahmed has said.

AHMEDABAD: The Socio-Economic Review of Gujarat has revealed that 1.47 lakh of the 43 lakh children at anganwadis in the state were found to be suffering from severe acute malnutrition (SAM).

The two institutes include Hyderabad-based National Institute of Nutrition (NIN) and Mumbai-based International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS).

Some 300,000 children out of the over 13 million under-five year-olds who are suffering from chronic malnutrition in Nigeria are at risk of dying from the disease, a local organization has warned.T

More than 58 000 children in drought-hit Somalia will starve to death if they do not receive urgent support, the UN has warned.

Some 260,000 people died in Somalia as a result of a drought earlier this decade
More than 50,000 children in Somalia "face death" because of the ongoing drought there, the UN says.

Luanda — A delegation of the European Union (EU) in Angola is announcing this Wednesday in Luanda the granting this year of EUR 1.3 million to fight hunger and malnutrition of children and vulnerab

Six-year-old Karthik from Ramanagaram had his eye balls jutting out along with persistent fever since he was two.