Mortality rates owing to severe malnutrition among children in western Jebel Marra, Central Darfur, are rising rapidly.

A number of children in the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) are stunted, wasted, and underweight, a study of Manusher Jonno Foundation (MJF) has found.

UNICEF said on Thursday that 55 per cent of child mortality in Nigeria was associated with malnutrition.

The health department found over 70,000 children suffering from diarrhoea in a door-to-door survey of houses conducted in the state.

Malnutrition in Pakistan will cost the nation heavily when 44 per cent of today’s children of ages up to five grow up as a stunted and unproductive generation in 10 to 15 years.

The United Nations members from 193 nations endorsed a “historic” roadmap Sunday to tackle poverty and hunger, promote well-being and safeguard the environment over the next 15 years.

A new scheme designed to address malnutrition and unhealthy eating habits through nutrition education at the Lower Basic School level in the country is gaining momentum.

Eleven-year old Srijita Bhangi sits in the waiting room of the jetty boat that connects her island home in Khulna to the mainland Sundarbans, near India's border with Bangladesh.

DHADING, JUL 30 - Children belonging to Chepang and Tamang communities in the district are suffering from severe malnutrition after the April 25 earthquake, a government study has shown.