The government lists the causes of malnutrition as multiple including: disease, inadequate food intake, poor caring practices, lack of access to health and basic services including safe water and sanitation, and poverty.
High diarrhoea prevalence resulting from poor hygiene practices, lack of access to sanitation facilities and clean water impact heavily on children's survival and development.
This is caused by various factors, such as poor health practices, lack of access to information, financial or geographical barriers, and weak child-service delivery systems, among others.
However, many potential causal factors have been identified, for example, feed type, changes in management practices, lack of access to pasture or to water.
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However, a recent study of a later but similar questionnaire suggested that that response bias in practice estimates of access to care was small and not consistent in direction across individual questions in the survey [ 17].
It even exists in food-secure communities and may also be caused by inadequate knowledge of infant and young child feeding (IYCF) practices, poor care practices, and lack of access to health and other social services.
The nutritional situation in the Sahel region (northern Benin, Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania and Niger) remained at extremely critical levels, with acute child malnutrition rates among the highest in the world and widespread chronic malnutrition resulting from poor access to essential child survival services, inadequate infant feeding and hygiene practices, and lack of access to water.
A recent survey undertaken by World Vision further suggests that 1 out of 5 children under the age of five have had skin or eye infections in the previous two weeks due to poor hygiene practices and lack of access to safe clean water and sanitation facilities.
