When we think of malnutrition, we often picture pot-bellied children or people who look severely thin and weak. But ...

A worsening malnutrition crisis is having dire effects on women and girls in Afghanistan who are failed by the international ...

In May 2025, the UN World Health Organization (WHO) reported that since the aid blockade began on March 2, 2025, 57 children have died from the effects of malnutrition. WHO further warned that if the ...

As malnutrition surges in war-torn Gaza, tens of thousands of children and women require urgent treatment, according to the UN, while aid enters the blockaded Palestinian territory at a trickle.

Israel has been accused of deliberately blocking humanitarian aid, including food. In September, deliveries of food and aid to Gaza fell to their lowest in seven months after Israel introduced new ...

Vice President Kashim Shettima has raised alarm that malnutrition is depriving about 40 percent of Nigerian children under the age of five of their full physical and cognitive potential. Speaking on ...

The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Public Health, Uju Anwukah, said on Wednesday that the Nigerian nation currently ranks second on the global scale of malnutrition and first on the ...