'Like MDGs, India may fail to achieve SDG targets on malnutrition'

‘Treat severe malnutrition at home’

WHO proposes ready-to-use food. Health experts don’t agree

Gut microbes can cause severe malnutrition

Study on Malawian children suffering from kwashiorkor establishes the link

3.1 million children under five die of malnutrition annually

Study says child mortality linked to maternal undernutrition, obesity

Cabinet approves National Policy for Children

Health experts say it has many shortcomings

Why India remains malnourished

Despite a fast-growing economy and the largest anti-malnutrition programme, India has the world’s worst level of child malnutrition. The …

Community-based solutions better for reducing malnutrition, says study

The study assessed the Action Against Malnutrition (AAM) programme in seven tribal blocks of Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand and Odisha. 

How the state fails its little ones

Jyotsna Singh visits anganwadis to find out why a large number of children suffer from malnutrition despite welfare programmes for them

Treating malnourished children at home yields better results, says study

Since uncomplicated cases do not need admission in rehabilitation centres, parents do not miss out on wages  

Include eggs in nation’s food security programme, demand activists

People’s Budget Initiative says implementation of food security programme discouraging

State of malnourished children

CAG’s latest report blames poor management of anganwadis in Gujarat for the problem

Adivasis, Bengali Muslims worst hit by child malnutrition in Assam

Adivasis, Bengali Muslims worst hit by child malnutrition in Assam They have low access to nutritious food in spite of increase in number of …

WHO changes approach to treating severely malnourished children

New guidelines say children suffering from severe acute malnutrition need not be hospitalised, and can be treated more effectively at home