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Nutrition Aid Architecture: How could improvements in financing mechanisms galvanise the global effort?

...ion contributes to 45% of all deaths in children under the age of 5. There is therefore an urgent need for Governments to bridge the financial gap for nutrition.A new report from RESULTS UK titled “Nutrition Aid Architecture: How could improvements in financing mechanisms galvanise the global effort?” acknowledges the complexity of finance for nutrition but highlights the opportunities that exist to raise the much needed funds.The report asks if there is anything the nutrition sector can learn f...

Measuring the Burden of Severe Acute Malnutrition: Current Challenges

... -3 who are at a high risk of death. In addition, these estimates do not include children with nutritional oedema who also have a high risk of death. To fill this gap in the estimation of the SAM burden, a technical group of non-governmental organisations and academics, in partnership with WHO, UNICEF and the CMAM Forum, are currently collecting data to map the global prevalence of nutritional oedema. Current estimates have an additional limitation, as they are obtained from prevalence dat...

A Coordinated Effort to Reduce Malnutrition: The Washington, DC GNR Launch

... that 45 percent of childhood deaths included malnutrition as an underlying determinant. She stressed the importance of creating a global infrastructure that is more supportive of nutrition, and hailed the Coordination Plan as a critical step in the right direction.Meera Shekar, the Global Lead for Nutrition at the World Bank, called attention to false assumptions about malnutrition, stating that increased wealth does not equate to better nutrition practices. She addressed social innovations for...

Nutrition in the health sector: Urgent need to accelerate action and accountability

...linked to around 45% of child deaths under five years of age, and for those children who survive, cognitive and physical development is compromised. It is estimated that 11 million deaths per year are attributable to unhealthy diets and the 2022 State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World report indicates that almost 3.1 billion people globally cannot afford a healthy diet.The compounding impacts of multiple crises provide the health sector with an opportunity to continue to scale up and d...

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Conclusion: Critical steps to get nutrition on track

... diets have on disability and death. It shows how healthy diet policies, such as sugar-sweetened beverage taxes, are starting to work – and that an intensive, comprehensive approach can produce positive change in what infants and adults eat.Early indications suggest that some governments in low and middle-income countries are increasing domestic spending on nutrition, and the importance of integrating humanitarian and development approaches to address malnutrition during crises is starting to be...

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The burden of malnutrition

...ion of the world’s 57 million deaths (71%) in 2016, of which diet was one of the four leading risk factors. Burden is greatest in low and middle-income countries, with 78% of all NCD deaths and 85% of premature deaths from NCDs.[13] Share chart FIGURE 2.2 Global nutrition: targets, burden and prevalence The maternal, infant and young child nutrition targets are as follows. - For anaemia the target is a ...

Accountability for Action: Breaking down barriers to strong commitment-making

...trition and related premature deaths are increasing. The impacts of the pandemic have exacerbated food insecurity, poor diets and malnutrition globally, threatening a lasting impact on children and adults.The time to act is now and the Tokyo Nutrition for Growth Summit presents stakeholders from across constituencies with an unprecedented opportunity to drive forward action for nutrition by making strong and SMART commitments.Building on this opportunity, the GNR, ATNI & RUK will bring toget...

Nutrition Scorecard Launch: Driving Accountability and Future Commitments

... 45% of all preventable child deaths worldwide this has been a neglected area of development for too long.At times of humanitarian crisis, the world's donor countries have responded with promises of aid but when hunger drops out of the headlines the question is; how well is this commitment maintained?The ACTION global health advocacy partnership, including RESULTS UK, works to influence policy and mobilise resources to achieve equitable access to healthcare worldwide. Today, at the Spring M...

Universal Health Coverage Day 2016: Making Nutrition Essential

...se the chances of illness and death from infectious diseases.Many of the countries currently battling high rates of malnutrition are also in the early stages of implementing universal health coverage plans—and still others are in the process of revising their current lists of “essentials”. As countries seek to deliver on these promises, we must push for greater consideration of nutrition issues in the health sector. Monitoring vulnerable populations for signs of undernutrition needs to be a buil...

Dataset and metadata

...NCD Risk Factor Collaboration.Deaths attributable to dietary risk factorsDefinitionDeaths (in millions) attributable to dietary risk factors by cause of death for risks related to dietary composition and weight levels. The combined risk is less than the sum of individual risks because individuals can be exposed to multiple risks, but mortality is ascribed to one risk and cause.Data typeModelled estimatesSourceNew analysis based on estimates of: food intake from the Global Dietary Database, https...