RAFAH, Gaza Strip (Reuters) - Medical workers held strips of plastic around the upper arms of small children in a Rafah tent, measuring the circumferences of their arms for signs of wasting flesh as a ...

What you need to know: The screening process involves an appetite test and weight checks to determine a child’s condition. Every two weeks, Ms Miriam Amoit Lapyem, a Village Health Team (VHT) member ...

Between Jan 2024 and Aug 2025, peaks in the prevalence of acute malnutrition match periods of severe aid restrictions. More than 54,600 children in Gaza are estimated to be acutely malnourished, ...

As the conflict in Gaza enters its 20th week, UNICEF and partners warn that an unprecedentedly rapid rise in malnutrition is threatening the lives of children and pregnant and breastfeeding women in ...

Global agrifood systems are changing rapidly, driven by factors such as climate change. These changes can have adverse ramifications in terms of both access to and the availability of nutritious foods ...

Fifteen years into the armed conflict in north-east Nigeria, food insecurity is threatening the lives of many of the country's youngest. Nearly 6.4 million children under the age of five suffer from ...

During training, pediatricians learn the traditional definitions of malnutrition in children, which focus on “nutrient scarcity.” Pediatric malnutrition — or under nutrition — contributes to an ...