Gains In Child Health, Education Threatened By Increase In ...

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?More children survived past their fifth birthday and attended school at the end of the 2000s than a decade before, but a rise in acute malnutrition could undermine these unprecedented gains,? according to a report released Thursday by Save the Children, AlertNet reports. Between 2005 and 2010, ?1.5 million more children suffered from wasting or acute weight loss ? than in the first half of the 2000s,? the news agency reports, adding, ?This happened as high, volatile food prices and increasingly extreme weather made food less affordable for many poor families, tipping some into crisis? (Nguyen, 7/19). According to the report, Japan is the best place for children, and Somalia ?is ranked last among the nations considered following a food crisis last year which killed tens of thousands of children,? the Independent notes. ?According to Save The Children, the overall proportion of acutely malnourished children grew by 1.2 percent during the previous decade,? the newspaper writes (Diaz, 7/19).

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Source: http://www.globalhealthhub.org/2012/07/19/gains-in-child-health-education-threatened-by-increase-in-malnutrition/

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