Sentence examples for malnutrition thresholds from inspiring English sources

The existence of malnutrition thresholds considered as alarming in other countries is not so in the Sudan-Sahelian zone.

"And if someone with a body-mass index of 18 (the malnutrition threshold) is regarded by the professionals as too fat, then we have a real problem".

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

Even before the famine was declared, we were above emergency thresholds for malnutrition.

Niger is facing a structural nutritional crisis with acute malnutrition rates above emergency thresholds in many parts of the country.

With malnutrition rates above emergency thresholds for a decade, nutritional health has become a persistent challenge in Chad.

And we are already seeing pockets of severe malnutrition above the emergency threshold.

[PDF] Darfur Nutrition Update - Issue 4 (May June 200606) 5 localised nutrition surveys were conducted in May and June across Greater Darfur, of which four reported rates of malnutrition over the emergency threshold of 15%.

Kiffa, Wilaya of Assaba, is one of seven target areas for UNICEF, where malnutrition rates have exceeded emergency thresholds.

According to recent nutritional assessment conducted in central and southern Somalia, malnutrition levels exceed World Health Organization emergency threshold levels of 15 per cent.

- In two of the eight regions, levels of acute malnutrition are above the emergency threshold (>15 per cent), revealing a recent and significant deterioration of the nutritional status of children under five.