Most of them are in the world’s poorest regions, such as South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. Read more at straitstimes.com.
NEW YORK - The number of pregnant women and nursing mothers suffering from undernutrition has increased by 25 per cent since 2020 in 12 countries at the epicenter of the world food crisis, the UN children’s agency warned on Monday, stressing the impact it is having on children’s health.
Most of them are in the world’s poorest regions, with South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa constituting 68 per cent of women and adolescent girls who are underweight and 60 per cent of those suffering from anemia. Malnutrition increases the risk of neonatal death, but can also “impair fetal development, with lifelong consequences for children’s nutrition, growth, learning and future earning capacity”.
It estimates that between 2020 and 2022, the number of pregnant or breastfeeding women suffering from acute malnutrition increased by 25 per cent, from 5.5 million to 6.9 million, in 12 countries deemed to be in food crisis – Afghanistan, Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Kenya, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Somalia, Sudan, South Sudan, Chad and Yemen.
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