The World Health Organization (WHO) and Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP) on Tuesday announced an expanded partnership to combat severe acute malnutrition, aiming to treat 80,000 children ...

Undernutrition, a deficiency of macronutrients and micronutrients, is the leading risk factor for tuberculosis (TB) globally, however its impact on treatment outcomes is poorly defined.

Despite advances in medical care, children under five continue to die in large numbers because of undernutrition, directly or indirectly, in low-income countries (LIC). The role played in such ...

Types of malnutrition include (1, 2): Undernutrition: This type of malnutrition results from not getting enough protein, calories or micronutrients. It leads to low weight-for-height (wasting ...

A Lancet article (2025) estimates that India’s overweight and obese adult population could touch 450 million by 2050 (180 ...

The Child Nutrition Fund (CNF), led by UNICEF, is changing how we tackle child undernutrition—by making funding smarter, more coordinated, and built to scale. The CNF unlocks government ...

"Our results show that child undernutrition could have a negative impact on the efficacy of vaccines by compromising the immune system's ability to mount an effective response to certain types of ...

UNITED NATIONS, United States — The number of pregnant women and nursing mothers suffering from undernutrition has increased by 25% since 2020 in 12 countries at the epicenter of the world food ...

Amid a global surge in measles cases, new research suggests that undernutrition may be exacerbating outbreaks in areas suffering from food insecurity. A study involving over 600 fully vaccinated ...

The evolution of Type 5 diabetes encompasses undernutrition in the womb along with undernutrition in childhood. This has been ...