The UNICEF Chief of Nutrition has published an article in the British magazine The Lancet with a series of facts that are surprising in relation to child malnutritionIn fact, they are so surprising that they should serve to make a new approach on how to use humanitarian aid.
Thanks to the elaboration of a work in which the rates of mortality and malnutrition were analyzed, a series of facts have been found that suggest and consider acting differently to overcome these problems before they occur as an emergency.
Apparently, in Africa most children do not suffer from malnutrition and it is not the continent where there are more malnourished children in the world, in reality where there is a greater problem, and this is reflected in statistics, it is in countries such as India or Pakistan among others .
Another point to take into account and which mainly affects the problem of child malnutrition is AIDS, this contributes in a very direct way, which highlights that you must act against this disease to improve the problem of malnutrition childish. Politics and the economy do not improve the nutritional problem of children, just look at the statistics on some countries such as the United Arab Emirates, despite being a very rich country has 14% of child malnutrition, something incomprehensible Well, means to solve the problem have them. Another example would be that reflected by countries such as Brazil or India, despite having high economic growth, this does not affect the most disadvantaged social layers of these countries, which have a high rate of child malnutrition.
The problem of child malnutrition must be addressed just after being identified, not waiting for an emergency to break out and the example of this situation is very clear, the international community does much more to save the malnourished children resulting from a catastrophe, will it be for echoing in the media ?. And we say this because we do not act in the same way with children who suffer from this problem every day but without being a consequence of a disaster or catastrophe. Is that perhaps a problem of this type is necessary for action?
What is very clear for the authors of the study and for the head of Nutrition of UNICEF, is that to alleviate child malnutrition, the root of the matter must be attacked, among other solutions, the diet of pregnant women and women should be improved. infants, better and better protection against infectious diseases, an improvement in water quality and sanitary conditions, promote babies to be breastfed at least until they reach six months of age and more extensive information and Much clearer for parents.
If the root of the problem is known, if the data is truly reliable, a problem can always be tackled more effectively.
