nutrition

Vaccinations to contain a severe measles outbreak are taking place in the Bunia Camp in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. (July 2019)
© UNICEF/Marixie Mercado

News in Brief 15 July 2019

15 July 2019
News in Brief
  • Over 820 million people suffering from hunger, new UN report reveals
  • ‘Complacency’ a factor in stagnation of global vaccination rates, warn UN health chiefs
  • We won’t get to zero cases of Ebola without a big scale-up in funding, warns UN emergency relief chief
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Clinic in Mbandaka, Democratic Republic of the Congo, where health care workers treat Ebola patients.
International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies

News in Brief 16 May 2019

16 May 2019
News in Brief
  • Fears over rising Ebola infections in DR Congo, lack of funding for safe burials 
  • More than 20 million babies born with a low birthweight, warns UN report 
  • Healthy diets vital for progress in Laos say UN food agencies 
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A child rests on a table in the classroom where her family is sleeping at a school used as a collective centre for internally displaced people in Oicha, Beni territory, North Kivu.
© UNHCR/N. Micevic

News in Brief 3 May 2019

3 May 2019
News in Brief
  • Attacks in DRC continue to terrorize the population: UN refugee agency
  • Iran: execution of child offenders ‘absolutely prohibited’, says UN human rights chief
  • Distribution of ‘super cereal’ suspended by WFP, while tests continue
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Fruit and vegetables farmers' market in Budapest, Hungary. (file)
© FAO/G. Agostinucci

Poor diets threaten health more than malaria, tuberculosis, measles – new UN report

7 November 2018
Health

With one-in-five deaths associated with poor-quality diets, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) issued a co-authored report on Wednesday, urging policymakers to reduce food loss and waste, to improve access to nutritious and healthy food.

Fries with cheese. According to a new WHO study there are 17 million deaths every year caused by cardiovascular diseases.
Public Domain

‘Bad’ fats targeted in new global health guidelines

4 May 2018
Health

People everywhere need to cut down on their consumption of artery-clogging fatty foods, the World Health Organization (WHO) is urging, in a new report released on Friday.

Children play at the multi-ethnic Krupskaya School in the town of Nookat, Osh oblast, Kyrgyzstan. (November 2010)
OCHA/Eurasia Foundation of Central Asia

Counselling and dieting among new UN health agency guidelines on child obesity

4 October 2017
An estimated 41 million children under five years old are obese or overweight, United Nations health experts warned today, launching new guidelines to tackle what they call a global epidemic.
Peter Thomson, President of the seventy-first session of the General Assembly, speaks to journalists on the Ocean Conference.
UN Photo/Ariana Lindquist (file)

SIDS share “unique challenges” to food security and nutrition

6 July 2017
General News

The launch of a Global Action Programme on Food Security and Nutrition in the Small Island Developing States or SIDS has been welcomed by the UN.

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A researcher tests tomatoes at the IAEA’s Food and Environmental Laboratory in Seibersdorf, Austria.
IAEA

UN agencies explore nuclear applications to combat food fraud and contamination

9 June 2017
Through a joint project, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) are exploring mobile tools to combat food fraud and contamination, which result in global annual in the billions and pose a serious public health threat.
A female school student in Somalia. © UNICEF Somalia/2015/Rich

Sanitary facilities and adequate nutrition key factors in keeping girls in school

12 April 2017
General News

Girls who do not have access to separate sanitary facilities or enough to eat are more likely to drop out of school, and in displaced communities, the problem is exacerbated.

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A market at a food cooperative in Orto Sole cooperative farm in Fiumicino and Torrimpietra, Italy. In a new report, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has called for more health and balanced diets in the Europe and Central Asia.
FAO/Alessandra Benedetti

Europe, Central Asia 'transitioning' to new nutrition challenges, cautions UN agency

14 March 2017
Warning that new consumption patterns in Europe and Central Asian countries are leading to complex health challenges, the United Nations food security agency today called for policies tailored to the income and nutrition profile of these developed countries to prevent them from “transitioning” to new forms of food and nutrition insecurity.