Malnutrition

Malnutrition

Malnutrition is a condition caused by lack of calorie intake or sufficient key nutrients, such as vitamins and minerals, that are needed for health. Nearly one-third of all children in developing countries and more than one billion people worldwide suffer from malnutrition. Poor nutrition in early childhood may lead to cognitive defects and poor physical development, as well as increased susceptibility to and severity of infections. Malnutrition is linked to more than half of all child deaths worldwide.

The disease burden of intestinal infections contribute significantly to malnutrition in LMICs. NIH’s Fogarty International Center, together with the Foundation for the NIH, co-ordinate a project entitled The Interactions of Malnutrition & Enteric Infections: Consequences for Child Health and Development (MAL-ED), a five-year multi-site project, the aim of which is to investigate the linkages between malnutrition and intestinal infections, and their effects on children in the developing world. The network’s main objectives are to create a standardized and harmonized set of epidemiological tools to accurately study the links between intestinal infections and gut physiology as risk factors for malnutrition across a number of diverse sites in the developing world.

http://www.fic.nih.gov/news/publications/global_health_matters/2010/0610_nutrition.htmStirring the pot - nutrition education for HIV patients in Kenyahttp://www.fic.nih.gov/news/publications/global_health_matters/2010/0610_hiv.htmPoor nutrition contributes to HIV-associated wasting in sub-Saharan Africahttp://www.fic.nih.gov/news/publications/global_health_matters/2009/gates_nutrition_04-09.htmGates grant launches nutrition studyhttp://www.fic.nih.gov/news/publications/global_health_matters/2009/ecuador_elderly_02-09.htmPoor nutrition puts elderly Ecuadorians at riskhttp://www.nih.gov/news/health/mar2009/fic-30.htmFNIH and NIH Announce Major Study of Childhood Malnutrition and Intestinal Infections NIHhttp://health.nih.gov/category/FoodNutritionandMetabolismhttp://www.nih.gov/news/health/mar2009/fic-30.htmNational Library of Medicine http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/malnutrition.htmlNIDDKhttp://www2.niddk.nih.gov/HealthEducation/HealthNutrition.htmNHLBI http://www.nih.gov/news/health/dec2009/nhlbi-10.htmNCI http://www.cancer.gov/dictionary/?CdrID=46014 CDChttp://www.cdc.gov/nutrition/index.htmlhttp://www.cdc.gov/immpact/index.htmlhttp://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5821a4.htmUSAIDhttp://www.usaid.gov/our_work/global_health/nut/http://www.usaid.gov/stories/mozambique/ss_mozambique_atea.htmlhttp://www.usaid.gov/our_work/global_health/nut/techareas/mal_children.htmlhttp://www.usaid.gov/stories/malawi/ss_mwi_malnutrition.htmlhttp://www.usaid.gov/stories/malawi/ss_mwi_nutrition.html http://www.usaid.gov/stories/mozambique/cs_mozambique_chicken.html

UVA http://www.healthsystem.virginia.edu/internet/news/archives09/mal_ed_network.cfm

UNICEF
http://www.unicef.org/nutrition/
http://www.unicef.org/mdg/syria_55611.html
http://www.unicef.org/education/benin_53329.html
http://www.unicef.org/nutrition/chad_53158.html
http://www.malnutrition.org/

Global health council - http://www.globalhealth.org/child_health/glossary/

Kaiser Family Foundation
http://globalhealth.kff.org/Daily-Reports/2009/July/29/GH-072909-Global-Harvest-Alliance.aspx
http://www.globalhealthfacts.org/topic.jsp?i=48

WHO

http://www.who.int/child_adolescent_health/topics/prevention_care/child/nutrition/malnutrition/en/
http://www.who.int/nutgrowthdb/en/
http://www.who.int/nutrition/topics/malnutrition/en/

UN
http://www.un.org/wcm/content/site/chronicle/cache/bypass/home/archive/Issues2009/forecast2020financialmeltdownandmalnutrition?ctnscroll_articleContainerList=1_0&ctnlistpagination_articleContainerList=true
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=33688&Cr=somalia&Cr1 =