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Visualizing Nutrition Deficits After USAID's Overhaul

Visualizing Nutrition Deficits After USAID's Overhaul

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A new computer simulation illustrates the impact of alternative funding scenarios for child nutrition programs in LMICs

Preserving Refugee Health in Uganda

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Amid U.S. funding cuts, Uganda works to protect its rapidly growing refugee population from deadly diseases

Preparing for Disease X

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A recent outbreak in Democratic Republic of Congo underscores the need to prepare for future pandemics

Small Fish: Big Nutritional Impact

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Incorporating indigenous small fish into local diets can deliver health benefits to communities facing malnutrition

How Innovations in Gut Health Can Help Treat Global Hunger

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Advancements in gut microbiome research could strengthen existing hunger treatments and prevent malnutrition relapse

How Innovations in Gut Health Can Help Treat Global Hunger

Gaza's Health Toll in Numbers

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With more than 800 attacks on health-care facilities, Gaza is facing increased levels of diseases and malnutrition

Why Some Children Relapse From Severe Acute Malnutrition

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A new pediatric study answers why and how often relapse occurs with the deadliest form of malnutrition

A woman holds her holds her one-year-old son at the Maternal and Child Care Center.

A Clear Fix for a Common Birth Defect in India

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Folic acid fortification in food can help reduce neural tube defects in India

A Clear Fix for a Common Birth Defect in India

Giving a Boost to School Lunches in India

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Supplementing school lunches with iron-fortified salt can help reduce anemia in kids

Giving a Boost to School Lunches in India

The Cleft Palate-Malnutrition Connection

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During food crises, children with cleft lip and cleft palate are the most vulnerable of the vulnerable

The Cleft Palate-Malnutrition Connection

How AI Is Transforming Maternal Health Care in Vietnam

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Southeast Asia is harnessing technology to equip parents with better information about childhood nutrition

How AI Is Transforming Maternal Health Care in Vietnam

What are Microbiomes and Probiotics?

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The first in a series on bacteria in the gut and their potential for improving health and addressing malnutrition

Researcher Marina Soloviecika holds tubes of a deadly strain of E.coli isolated during an outbreak in Riga, Latvia on June 9, 2011. Many other types of bacteria live safely in or on the human body. The image shows a few testtubes filled with liquid that has a very distinctive purple “lid.” The researcher can be seen blurred out in the background. REUTERS/Ints Kalnins