Sentence examples for emergency thresholds from inspiring English sources

"Malnutrition and mortality rates were past emergency thresholds, and people had little access to safe drinking water, sanitation or medical care," the report said.

Some of those factors, like an acute malnutrition rate of 24percentt in some areas of Somalia, have already soared past emergency thresholds and are closing in on famine range.

The military has since relaxed some restrictions, but a survey by the aid group Save the Children U.K. found that child malnutrition rates in some areas have soared past emergency thresholds and are now higher than in Darfur or Somalia, widely considered the two most pressing crises in Africa.

Screening in Gbiti site found 31% of new arrivals at the entry point are globally acute malnourished, of whom 11% are in a state of severe acute malnutrition; these rates far surpass international emergency thresholds of 15%and2%2% respectively.

CMR and U5MR exceeded respective emergency thresholds (Table 1).

Background: For many years, Sudan has had high rates of acute malnutrition exceeding emergency thresholds.

The United Nations considers 15percentthehemergencycy threshold.

Fifteen percent is considered to be the emergency threshold.

In June a government report showed malnutrition levels in Niger had already passed the emergency threshold.

It is almost double the emergency threshold of 15% set by the World Health Organisation.

Hunger levels have jumped sharply, with rates of severe malnutrition rising as high as five times the emergency threshold.