A Boston-based research team on Friday released a study showing a huge jump in U.S. households not having enough food. The study, published in the journal JAMA Network Open, focuses on food insufficiency. Researchers found ending the monthly payments “was associated with a 25% increase in household food insufficiency by early July 2022.” The g...
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AA) – One in nine children under 5 years of age admitted to health facilities in Pakistan’s flood-battered areas are found to be suffering from “severe acute” malnutrition, according to a UN report. The report released by UNICEF warned that the health facilities are reporting alarming levels of seve...
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA) – Drought-ravaged Somalia could soon see “the death of children on a scale not seen in half a century,” the UN has warned, calling for greater action and funding from the international community. “Today in Somalia, every single minute of every single day, a child is admitted to a health facility for […]
Doha, Qatar (AFP): Hazem Attar was 10 when he fled the stricken Syrian city of Aleppo seven years ago. Seven members of his family packed into a bus to escape the city that had endured more than three years of bombs and bullets from government forces under Bashar Al Assad. They were put in a […]
UNITED NATIONS (AA) – The UN has warned that 17 million people are facing acute food insecurity during the last three months of 2022. “Some gains have been made in preventing famine … but this is still an alarmingly high number,” Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Joyce Msuya told the UN Security Council. Civilian...
Banjul, Gambia (AFP): When Wuri Bailo Keita’s two-year-old daughter Fatoumatta developed a fever, he took her to hospital where she was diagnosed with malaria and sent home with a prescription for a paracetamol syrup. Less than a week later she was dead. The infant is just one of 69 Gambian children who have died of […]
Johi, Pakistan (AFP): His head haloed by a whirlwind of mosquitoes, Aamir Hussain stands on the roof of his home in southern Pakistan surveying the fetid floodwaters all around. Four months after the start of record monsoon rains linked to climate change, the standing water has curdled into a pestilent soup breeding malaria, cholera and [&hell...
ANKARA (AA) – The World Health Organization has issued a medical product alert for four contaminated medicines detected in Gambia which have been potentially linked with acute kidney injuries and 66 child deaths. “The four medicines are cough and cold syrups produced by Maiden Pharmaceuticals Limited in India. WHO is conducting further i...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – Nine-month-old Nayma is being given a high dose of drugs under the careful watch of physicians at a health center in Bangladesh capital Dhaka. She has been diagnosed with a deadly drug-resistant form of tuberculosis. Nayma has been provided treatment for the last three months for MultiDrug Resistant Tuberculosis,...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Palestinian schools in occupied East Jerusalem went on strike on Monday to protest Israeli attempts to impose textbooks that attempt to wipe out Palestinian national identity. The one-day strike was staged in response to a call by a coalition of national and Islamic factions in the city. “We reject Israel’s attempt...
