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UN: Eight million children are at risk of starvation

UN: Eight million children are at risk of starvation

They are so weakened by starvation and disease that the only way to save them is immediate intervention, several UN agencies warned on Thursday. They have drawn up a five-point plan and appealed to governments and organizations to support the program.

In total there are more than 30 million in the 15 countries children and youth severely weakened by malnutrition and disease. If they survive, many suffer life-long injuries. They often struggle in school, which reduces their chances of getting better jobs than their parents’ and keeps them trapped in the vicious cycle of poverty. Especially the little ones weigh so little that their immune system no longer works well and they hardly have any resistance. As a result, they are more likely to die of otherwise harmless childhood diseases.

It’s about countries on the Horn of Africa like Ethiopia and Kenya, in the African Sahel zone like Mali and Nigeria, as well as Afghanistan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Haiti, Madagascar and Yemen. The countries have been hit hard by conflicts, climate shocks, the aftermath of the corona pandemic and skyrocketing living costs, partly as a result of the Russian war against Ukraine. The United Nations wants, among other things, mothers and children support as early as possible, for example with problems with breastfeeding and with food aid, vitamin supplements and medicines to prevent worm infestation. Families should be supported in producing and choosing as diverse a diet as possible, villages should be given clean drinking water and good sewage systems, and health systems should be provided with rations of high-energy food for particularly severe cases.

The five-point plan is supported by the World Health Organization (WHO), the UN Children’s Fund UNICEF, the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR), the UN World Food Program (WFP) and the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).

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