Afghanistan has experienced ongoing conflict and instability, notably following the Taliban's assumption of power in 2021, ...

Women are struggling to feed their children and themselves, leaving them all malnourished.

In the hardest hit areas, malnutrition rates for children are surging beyond 20 percent.

Afghans suffering from malnutrition are enrolled in the Integrated Management of Acute Malnutrition program, which has a remarkable 93.5% cure rate. The IRC in Afghanistan works closely with ...

Two separate studies analyzing disparities in patients’ place of death revealed high death rates related to malnutrition and thyroid cancer among patients receiving care at home and in hospice ...

In a report released this week, Human Rights Watch urged Colombia and Panama to increase protections for migrants who are vulnerable to sexual violence when crossing the Darien Gap. The report ...

with more than a third of them in Sudan and Afghanistan. At the emergency level, households have large food consumption gaps, which are reflected in “very high acute malnutrition and excess ...

According to SGA and GLIM criteria, malnutrition rates were 50.8% and 42.7%, respectively. GLIM criteria showed a SE of 67.3% (95% CI: 60.4%, 73.7%) and SP of 82.7% (95% CI: 76.6%, 87.7%) in ...

Provisional data published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) this week showed that the fertility rate in the United States hit a record low and the total number of births in ...

Furthermore, Afghanistan is facing rising rates of inflation that make food and nutrition expensive for families to buy. The Taliban’s restrictions on women also exacerbates the malnutrition crisis.

The United Nations has expressed concern over surge in malnutrition among women and children in Afghanistan. According to World Food Programme, an alarming 1.2 million women are now grappling with ...