Half of India's kids are malnourished
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Nearly half of India's children are malnourished, putting the country in the same league as some of the world's poorest countries &#151; even though fewer infants are dying and more pregnant Indian women are seeing doctors, according to government data released Friday.
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More than one billion children around the world face a brutal existence because of poverty, war and Aids, the UN children&#39;s agency reports.
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over half the children in the world - suffer extreme deprivation because of war, HIV/AIDS or poverty, according to a report released yesterday by the United Nations Children&#39;s Fund.
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Children are likely to be undernourished in households where women are denied a voice in family decisions like doctor visits, food expenditures and trips to see friends and relatives, says a report by the U.N. Children's Fund, UNICEF, released on Monday.
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Almost half of the world's   population, mainly in Africa and Asia, lack access to basic   sanitation, increasing the risk of diarrhea and other diseases   fatal to children, according to a U.N. report released on   Thursday.
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Malnutrition among Iraq's youngest children has nearly doubled since the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq despite U.N. efforts to deliver food to the war-ravaged country, a Norwegian research group said Monday.
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&quot;While under-nutrition continues to be a key concern, particularly in developing countries, many children in all regions of the world have poor eating habits and are not getting enough exercise,&quot; she added.
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At least 43m children around the world are unable to go to school because of armed conflicts, a new report says.
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One quarter of New York City's 1.9  million children live in poverty -- 50 percent higher than the  United States average -- and many of these children are  overweight, a food supply group said on Tuesday.
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In a demographic bubble that is transforming India, 54 percent of the country's one billion plus people are now under the age of 25.
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The United Nations children&#39;s fund says that more than half the world&#39;s children are suffering the effects of poverty, war and HIV/AIDS, denying them a healthy and safe childhood.
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Millions of children live in poverty in Eastern Europe and Central Asia despite economic growth, a UN report says.
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Impoverished North Korea cuts food handouts to just half what the World Food Programme recommends.
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Hunger and malnutrition are killing more than five million children a year, with Africa bearing the brunt in human lives, and costing developing nations billions of dollars in lost productivity, according to the UN food agency's annual hunger report.
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NEW DELHI -- Neelamdevi Thakur lives in a working-class slum and earns a living washing dishes in middle-class homes twice a day. In the past year, two of her five children, who attend an affluent private school, have returned home speaking words that she had never heard from her other children, who...
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THURSDAY, Jan. 17 (HealthDay News) -- A international epidemic of maternal and childhood malnutrition accounts for more than one-third of childhood deaths and 11 percent of the world's disease burden, researchers report.
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The world is losing the battle against hunger, with the number of malnourished people in developing nations growing to more than 800 million people and rising, according to a U.N. report Wednesday.