Growing evidence is emerging of record levels of malnutrition affecting children in Afghanistan under Taliban rule. The Public Health Ministry has told the BBC seven hundred children died in the ...

The cases of malnutrition among Afghan children have skyrocketed by nearly 47 per cent since the beginning of the year, an organization, Save the Children highlighted in a report on Monday.

The United Nations has expressed concern over surge in malnutrition among women and children in Afghanistan. According to World Food Programme, an alarming 1.2 million women are now grappling with ...

Last year, the UN agency warned that malnutrition rates in Afghanistan were at a record high with half the country suffering from severe hunger throughout the year.Afghanistan is experiencing a ...

KABUL, Aug. 29 (Xinhua) -- At least 26 children under five have died due to malnutrition and inadequate food in north Afghanistan's Badakhshan province over the past five months, a hospital source ...

Suffering from severe acute malnutrition, she occupies half a bed at a ward in Jalalabad regional hospital in Afghanistan’s ... high-pitched beeps of a pulse rate monitor. Most of the children ...

Afghanistan is facing its second winter ... with millions on the brink of starvation. Rates of malnutrition among children have gone up by nearly fifty per cent. BBC reporter Yogita Limaye has ...

Human Rights Watch says Afghanistan’s public health system has been hit hard following a sharp reduction in foreign assistance, coupled with serious Taliban abuses against women and girls ...

Rural areas in Nepal have higher rates of malnutrition than urban areas because of limited access to nutritious food, healthcare services, and education. Disparities in malnutrition rates are ...

Malnutrition significantly increases the 180-day hospital readmission rates among patients 65 years ... all obtained from electronic medical records. The GLIM criteria diagnose patients with ...

Diseases like cholera and measles, high food insecurity, limited access to safe drinking water and economic decline are fueling a sharp rise in acute malnutrition rates among vulnerable children ...

Suffering from severe acute malnutrition, she occupies half a bed at a ward in Jalalabad regional hospital in Afghanistan’s eastern Nangarhar ... is only broken by the high-pitched beeps of a pulse ...