Stop saying the solutions are so simple

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Earlier this week, I was fortunate to attend the launch of a report by Save the Children on the state of malnutrition globally. Their report, entitled “ A Life Free from Hunger ” rightly draws global attention on one the most important, yet perhaps most neglected causes of child mortality and ill health – malnutrition. According to their estimates, malnutrition is an underlying cause in 2.6 million child deaths every year. And of course mortality is only the most extreme manifestation of this problem, it leaves children less able to learn and to grow into productive members of society.

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Stop saying the solutions are so simple

Posted by Karen Grepin on Feb 17 2012. Filed under Policy & Systems. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry