Understanding malnutrition in India

Malnutrition is one of the largest factors supressing India's spectacular growth. In a country of lunar missions, billionaires, and nuclear power, a staggering 46% of all India children under 5 years old are still underweight. In India, where everything is on a large scale, malnutrition is daunting - an estimated 200 million children are underweight at any given time, with more than 6 million of those children suffering from the worst form of malnutrition, severe acute malnutrition. Experts estimate that malnutrition constitutes over 22% of India's disease burden, making malnutrition one of the nation's largest health threats.

The causes of malnutrition and therefore the solutions to the problem vary as much as the Indian people. To understand and solve malnutrition requires patience, nuance, flexibility, and above all determination.

Follow me as I set out to understand malnutrition in the subcontinent and begin to tackle it

Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Jhabua malnutrition in the news again

http://www.ndtv.com/news/india/madhya-pradesh-jhabuas-register-of-death-18247.php

We're finding the same thing at anganwadi centers across the district. In a recent survey in one village, we found 50% malnutrition with 18% severe acute malnutrition - a SAM rate 54% higher than the national average of 3%
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