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| Date Archive : 1/17/2008 |
| Date Enter; : 1/17/2008 |
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Hour Enter : 1:35:01 PM |
| Resource : Reuters |
| Summery : Undernutrition causes more than a third of child deaths worldwide, but simple programs like promoting breastfeeding and providing supplements could keep some of those children alive, experts said on Thursday.
The new figures, which were taken from surveys of some 139 countries and a re-analysis of existing data, are lower than previous estimates attributing 50 percent of childhood deaths to undernutrition -- a severe form of malnutrition, the international team of researchers said. |
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The researchers estimated that problems relating to a severe lack of food resulted in 2.2 million deaths of children under the age of five in 2005.
Too many children still die needlessly due to a lack of coordination among governments, private donor groups and non-governmental organizations, they wrote in a special series of reports in the journal Lancet.
"This latest Lancet series concludes, not surprisingly perhaps, that the international nutrition system is broken," Richard Horton, the journal's editor, wrote in a commentary. "Leadership is absent, resources are too few, capacity is fragile and emergency responses systems are urgently needed."
Read more at: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080117/hl_nm/nutrition_children_dc
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