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Hidden Hunger in Uganda

The Role of Fathers in Tackling Malnutrition in Infants in Southwestern Uganda

Researchers at the Mbarara University of Science and Technology in Uganda have investigated the extent to which fathers contribute to the reduction of malnutrition in...

Uganda in the Global Hunger Index 2017

The Global Hunger Index (GHI) measures the nutritional status of the population in one country each year using four indicators: proportion of undernourished people in...

Key Data on the Nutritional Status of Children in Uganda

The Ugandan Demographic and Health Report contains key data on the nutritional status of children in different regions of the country (1). 29 % of all...

Vitamin K Deficiency in Newborns and their Mothers in South-West Uganda

Vitamin K is especially needed for blood clotting and bone formation. Therefore, vitamin K deficiency can, for example, intensify the bleeding tendency and prolong the coagulation...

Life Expectancy and Disease Burden in Uganda

In Uganda life expectancy is on average 58.5 years for man and 64.3 years for woman. Among the most important causes of early death are...

High Economic Losses in Uganda Due to Late Effects of Micronutrient Deficiencies

In a situation analysis on the situation of children in Uganda (1), UNICEF and a steering committee of the Ugandan government have extrapolated the economic...

Fermentation of Leafy Vegetables and Fruits to Enhance the Availability of Micronutrients for Africa’s Populations

While children in sub-Saharan Africa suffer the most from micronutrient deficiencies worldwide, this region, including Ivory Coast, is characterized by an unprecedented biodiversity of plants...

Expert Assessment of the Preventive Potential of Micronutrients in Functional Foodstuffs

Functional foodstuffs are defined as products that do not just provide nutrients but offer in addition a potential benefit to improve people’s health and wellbeing...

Overview of the Benefits and Risks of Micronutrients

Micronutrients, i.e. vitamins, minerals and amino acids are essential for a healthy organism. Their action in metabolic processes is interconnected. Therefore, the deficiency or exceeding...

Empathy in the Commitment against Hidden Hunger

Commitment to fight micronutrient deficiencies demands a fundamental degree of empathy. This is reason enough to ask, what actually triggers compassion and how it motivates...

Iron Deficiency Anaemia as a Global Problem

Today, iron deficiency anaemia is the third most frequent chronic disease worldwide after caries and tension headache. According to new statistics published by The Lancet,...

On the Impact of Undernutrition and Malnutrition on the Microbiome

The development and composition of the microbiome, i.e. the individual, specific entirety of all microorganisms present in particular in the gastrointestinal tract and on the...

On the Epidemiology of Global Micronutrient Deficiencies

A fundamental article has now commented on the potential of global prevention of micronutrient deficiencies in a comprehensive way detailing the implications of iron, vitamin...

Millions of Like’s on Facebook and YouTube for Technical and Medical Innovations. Is This Also Possible Against Malnutrition?

With the video clip Tangible Media, the Bremen student Hashem AL-Ghaili from Yemen reached more than 12.7 million views, potentially other young students from all over...

Digitalization as an Opportunity for Developing Countries to Skip so Far Missing Technology and thus to Quickly Catch Up With the World Market

Even opinion leaders from the economic and political elite of developing and emerging countries confide on digitalization in order to predict their home countries a...

Smartphone – Route to Clean Drinking Water and More

Using the app, you can register waterholes via GPS data and mark them on an open online map. Health workers will analyse the water samples...

Life Expectancy and Burden of Disease in Ivory Coast

On average, Ivorian men become 57.2 years old while women reach an average age of 61.4 years. The observed life expectancy is about four years...

The Hidden Hunger Index Ivory Coast (Côte d’Ivoire)

The extent of hidden hunger can be globally compared with the help of the Hidden Hunger Index (1). The overall index is calculated by the...

Farmer Business Schools (FBS) in Ivory Coast

Cocoa is the main source of income for small farmers in West Africa and especially the Ivory Coast. But the revenues are low. Additionally the...

Global Food Security Index (GFSI) – Ivory Coast

Three key aspects are taken into account by the Global Food Security Index 2016 in order to characterize the food safety and its endangerment in...

Global-Hunger-Index (GHI)

The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPI) and the World Hunger Aid publish an annual report on the changes regarding the Global Hunger Index on...

Hidden Hunger-Index

The hidden hunger Index serves as a measure of hidden hunger. This is the original definition quoted from the publication by S. Muthayya et al....

The Measure for Food Security Used by the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO)

Today, 32 indicators are used by the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations for the description of the degree to which the food...

Malnutrition Through Bee Mortality in a Thought Experiment

Crop plants which depend on pollination especially by bees, contain large amounts of micronutrients needed for human nutrition. Alarming scientific projections show the extent to...

Diversification

A concept for the self-production of foodstuffs that complement corn as the basic food and reduce stunting as a symptom of hidden hunger in a...

The Global Burden of Disease in Zambia

Changes with regard to life expectancy and to the frequency of diseases are directly linked to changing dietary habits. The country profile in The Global...

Malnutrition and Infection Diseases

Mangelernährung und Infektionskrankheiten verstärken sich wechselseitig. Doch bislang fokussieren sich Programme der Entwicklungshilfe entweder auf die Beseitigung des verborgenen Hungers oder auf die Ursachen von...

Malnutrition in Mothers and Children in Poorer Countries

A series published by the “The Lancet“ magazine describes the causal links between the nutritional habits of mothers and the consequences for young children in...