Tag «Malnutrition»

Germany’s Welthungerhilfe rolls out pilot project in India to tackle malnutrition with Microsoft AI

India is the first country to pilot the Child Growth Monitor app to scan 10,000 children for signs of malnutrition Bangalore, January 17, 2019: Welthungerhilfe,oneof the largest private aid organizations in Germany, has launched a project in India to help address malnutrition in children with the Child Growth Monitor solution a cloud-based, smartphone application powered …

Nutrition for girls: Save the Children / IFAD, integrated and multi-sectoral measures to save adolescent girls from malnutrition and prevent early deaths

Opens today in Rome the International Conference “Leaving no one behind – making the case for adolescent girls,” organized by IFAD, Save the Children, with support of the Canadian Government   Rome- 22 October 2018 – By 2030 there will be 129 million children with stunted growth due to malnutrition, mostly born of young mothers. …

A fifth of adolescents are overweight or obese due to the double burden of malnutrition in developing countries including India

New study lists war, lack of democracy and urbanisation among factors to blame   A new study from the University of Warwick blames macro-level factors for the double burden of malnutrition among adolescents in developing countries including India.   The double burden of malnutrition refers to the coexistence of undernutrition along with overweight and obesity, …

In partnership with the Ministry of Women and Child Development (MWCD), Government of India, UNICEF and Supported by Vodafone India New Delhi, June 2, 2015: The Indian Academy of Pediatrics (IAP) in partnership with HealthPhone, today announced the formal launch of the IAP HealthPhone programme, the world’s largest digital mass education programme to tackle the …