Through investigation, police said its detectives believed the child, “who was severely underweight, appeared malnourished,” may have suffered “criminal neglect” before he died.

SAM is noticeable through severe underweight, where the child looks extremely thin, or through nutritional oedema, which causes swelling due to poor nutrition. Children with SAM face a much higher ...

For School Year 2023-2024 alone, Poe said the SFP served 1,846,902 children. The number of severely underweight and underweight children was reduced from 170,135 to 42,447 equivalent to a 75% ...

Unicef report found that 23% of South African children experience severe food poverty, eating less than two of the ...

Similarly, the underweight percentage (17.61%) places Karnataka among the top 10 states struggling with child nutrition ... aiming to treat moderate and severe acute malnutrition while promoting ...