Lack of communication between the many nonprofit, governmental, and other entities involved plague attempts to increase health of resource-poor populations.
The main food insecure segments of the population consist of resource poor households, women, the youth, the elderly, child orphans, the unemployed and households affected by HIV/AIDS.
Support in rural areas: Khululeka Community Education Development Centre Khululeka focuses on meeting the expressed needs of the most rural, resource-poor populations in the Queenstown area of South Africa's Eastern Cape.
With the lowest protein∶energy ratio (P∶E) of any staple food, resource-poor populations that rely on cassava as their major source of calories are at high risk of PEM [8] and developing conditions such as Kwashiorkor [9] and related pathological disorders [10].
A probiotic dairy product was developed on the basis of a traditional dish called mutandabota to enable resource-poor populations in southern Africa to benefit from a functional food.
With surveys reporting that 80% of individuals in developing countries have experienced health sector corruption, these resource-poor populations are disproportionately impacted [ 4, 7, 8].
Indeed, human exposure to arsenic often occurs in relatively resource-poor populations in developing countries that also may have low dietary intakes of methionine (Anetor et al. 2007).
Anaemia is a common disorder, affecting a third of the world population most of whom live in resource poor countries [1].
Hence, we need to promote policies that promote the elucidation and elimination of SES gradient across population groups – via increases of the socioeconomic resources available to resource poor groups [ 93].
This is especially true in resource poor rural China where over 75% of the nation's vast population lives.
Addressing the reproductive health information and service needs of this population poses significant challenges for policy makers and service providers especially those working in resource poor settings.
