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Press release
15 March 2024
Acute malnutrition has doubled in one month in the north of Gaza strip: UNICEF
NEW YORK, 15 MARCH 2024 –31 per cent - or 1 in 3 children under 2 years of age – in the Northern Gaza Strip suffer from acute malnutrition, a staggering escalation from 15.6 per cent in January. Malnutrition among children is spreading fast and reaching devastating and unprecedented levels in the Gaza Strip due to the wide-reaching impacts of the…
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03 March 2024
Statement by Adele Khodr, UNICEF Regional Director for the Middle East and North Africa
AMMAN, 3 March 2024 – “The child deaths we feared are here, as malnutrition ravages the Gaza Strip. “At least ten children have reportedly died because of dehydration and malnutrition in Kamal Adwan Hospital in the Northern Gaza Strip in recent days. There are likely more children fighting for their lives somewhere in one of Gaza’s few remaining…
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Press release
19 February 2024
Children’s lives threatened by rising malnutrition in the Gaza Strip
GENEVA/NEW YORK/ROME, 19 February 2024 – A steep rise in malnutrition among children and pregnant and breastfeeding women in the Gaza strip poses grave threats to their health, according to a comprehensive new analysis released by the Global Nutrition Cluster. As the ongoing conflict in the Gaza Strip enters its 20 th week, food and safe water…
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Press release
18 February 2020
World failing to provide children with a healthy life and a climate fit for their future: WHO-UNICEF-Lancet
NEW YORK/ LONDON/ GENEVA, 19 February: No single country is adequately protecting children’s health, their environment and their futures, finds a landmark report released today by a Commission of over 40 child and adolescent health experts from around the world. The Commission was convened by the World Health Organization (WHO), UNICEF and The…
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18 October 2018
Preventing malnutrition in Laos
XEPON, Lao People's Democratic Republic, 18 October 2018 – Loulli has just woken up from her nap, eager to play with her older sister and cousins. At eight months old, she is full of energy and laughter and tries to stand on her feet. But until recently, her story was very different. Three months ago, Loulli was getting recurrent fevers and…
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01 October 2018
Deadly earthquake and tsunami hit Indonesia
NEW: Sulawesi Earthquake & Tsunami: One month on from the disaster, thousands of children still homeless, out-of-school and in need of humanitarian support JAKARTA, Indonesia – On 28 September, a 7.4 magnitude earthquake off the coast of Indonesia triggered a tsunami, affecting around 1.5 million people on the island of Sulawesi.* UNICEF is…
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10 September 2018
Global hunger continues to rise, new UN report says
ROME/ NEW YORK, 11 September 2018 – New evidence continues to signal that the number of hungry people in the world is growing, reaching 821 million in 2017 or one in every nine people, according to The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2018 released today. Limited progress is also being made in addressing the multiple forms of…
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08 November 2016
Combatting severe acute malnutrition in Phnom Penh’s vulnerable communities
UNICEF and partners developed a nutritious yet palate-pleasing snack for Cambodian children who are being treated with therapeutic feeding. PHNOM PENH, Cambodia, 8 November 2016 – Yin Seiha is 15 months old. She lives with her mother Chea Sok in one of Phnom Penh’s slum communities, in a single room hut that floats on the Tonle Sap River.…