Africa: Unicef Report Warns of Rising Rates of Child Mortality Without Proper Funding

Africa: Unicef Report Warns of Rising Rates of Child Mortality Without Proper Funding

United Nations -- Despite levels of child mortality and stillbirths having significantly decreased since 2000, increasingly unequal and limited access to basic services around the world endangers millions of children around the world, a new report finds.

As the International Summit for Nutrition opens in Paris (March 27-28), head for Madagascar, in a Creni, a Center for intensive nutritional recovery and education. Considered as the "last chance" places for children with severe acute malnutrition with complications, these centres welcome small, exhausted patients and often debunked parents. The island has 76 centres, maintained mainly through donors.

14 million children face malnutrition worldwide

UNICEF warned Wednesday that at least 14 million children face hunger, malnutrition or death in 2025, as major international donors like the United States slash aid budgets.

Unicef cites the announced or expected decrease in contributions from "donors", without directly naming the United States, which announced the abolition of most of the programs of the USAID agency.

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Kabul, 28 Mar (Latin Press) The World Food Programme (WFP) warned that programs against child malnutrition in Afghanistan could end in May due to the cut off of international aid by the United States, The Khaama Press reported today. The post Court of Aid Threat Program against malnutrition in Afghanistan first appeared on News Prensa Latina.