More than 20% of the world's children under the age of 5 have a low height in relation to their age due to undernutrition or malnutrition, i.e., they are stunted. Though childhood stunting does ...

Low height-for-age, or stunting, is a major contributor to childhood mortality globally and is often used as a marker of malnutrition in children. Stunting is most likely to occur in the first 24 ...

Nigeria has the highest burden of malnourished children in Africa, the United Nations Children’s Fund has said. The international agency stated on its website that only two out of every 10 children ...

The Health Ministry has reported a decline in the national stunting rate among children, from 21.5 percent in 2023 to 19.8 ...

The economic impact of the earthquakes that ripped through southern Türkiye and northern Syria 100 days ago threatens to push at least another 665,000 Syrians into hunger, with doctors and aid ...

On our watch, no child will be stunted because of poor nutrition”. Some solutions are pivotal to the future of this country and must be endorsed by all leaders in every sector and political party.

Official data shows that 35% of India’s 137 million children under five are stunted Decades of caste discrimination have contributed to India having higher levels of child stunting rates than ...

Vietnam sets a goal to reduce the stunting rate in under-5 children to below 15% by 2030, but this rate currently is still high at 18.2%. If Vietnam does not actively deploy intervention measures both ...

According to the National Health and Morbidity Survey (NHMS), the prevalence of stunting in children under five years of age in Malaysia has increased from 17.2% (2006) to 20.7% (2016).