calls a malnutrition "of excess".
Somalia has faced for the last 15 years a relentless rate of malnutrition of 15-21% of the population.
In any case, she says, the violence of bullets and torture are no greater than the violence of hunger and malnutrition, of vulnerable people feeling they're under siege.
In many areas, food production remains incredibly fragile, and the result is visual and heart-wrenching in the malnutrition of millions of children.
According to Unicef, some 2 million Sudanese children under the age of five suffer from chronic malnutrition, of whom 550,000 are severely malnourished and at risk of death.
MSF said on Thursday that last month's three-day rapid nutritional assessment, during which 500 children between the ages of six months and five years were measured and weighed, found 37% were suffering from global acute malnutrition; of these, 17% were severely affected, with a high risk of death.
Today 97% of Rwandan infants are vaccinated against 10 diseases, and rates of under-five mortality, maternal mortality, and deaths due to tuberculosis and malaria, have fallen alongside the burden of HIV – although major challenges remain, including tackling the malnutrition of 44.7% of the children.
Although snakebite mortality worldwide is estimated at 30,000 40,000 people per year, the majority of deaths (25,000 35,000) occur in Southeast Asia, principally because of poor medical treatment, malnutrition of victims, and a large number of venomous species.
About half of the world population suffers from the malnutrition of iron, zinc, calcium, iodine and selenium.
