PAKISTAN: Child Malnutrition

Mothers of children undergoing treatment at an acute respiratory illness (ARI) ward are seen in the Civil Hospital, 15 March, 2011, in Dadu, Pakistan. Acute respiratory illnesses and skin diseases are common consequences of malnutrition, due to the breakdown of the immune system leaving children vulnerable to other diseases. According to UN reports, hundreds of thousands of children in Pakistan suffer from severe-acute-malnutrition, with 15.1% of children experiencing acute malnutrition....
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Mothers of children undergoing treatment at an acute respiratory illness (ARI) ward are seen in the Civil Hospital, 15 March, 2011, in Dadu, Pakistan. Acute respiratory illnesses and skin diseases are common consequences of malnutrition, due to the breakdown of the immune system leaving children vulnerable to other diseases. According to UN reports, hundreds of thousands of children in Pakistan suffer from severe-acute-malnutrition, with 15.1% of children experiencing acute malnutrition. Child malnutrition has breached emergency levels in Pakistan's Sindh province, after monsoon floods devastated the country's poorest region for a second year. Extreme poverty, poor diet and health, exposure to disease, and inadequate sanitation and hygiene annually produce alarming levels of malnutrition amongst children, but the floods have increasingly endangered an already vulnerable population.
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