A third of child deaths occur for want of simple vitamins and minerals and a daily fill of breast milk. That’s the stark message from five studies of childhood and maternal malnutrition published this week in The Lancet.
“If you eliminated malnutrition, you would prevent 35 per cent of child deaths globally,” says Bruce Cogill of UNICEF in New York, author of a study examining whether the situtation could be remedied by reforming agencies charged with tackling malnutrition.
Cogill says that although malnutrition killed 2.2 million children under 5 in 2005, only $250 million is spent on nutrition aid…
