Nearly two million children suffering from severe wasting are at risk of death due to funding shortages for life-saving Ready-to-use-Therapeutic-Food (RUTF) to treat the condition, which is the most dangerous form of malnutrition.
The warning comes from UN children’s agency UNICEF which said levels of severe wasting in children under five remain gravely high in several countries due to conflict, economic shocks and climate crises.
MANILA, Philippines — SEVERE Tropical Storm Carina continues to intensify as it moves northwestward over the Philippine Sea, the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (Pagasa) said Monday. Signal No. 1 remains up over […]
MANILA, Philippines — President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. will raise the South China Sea dispute and assert Manila’s sovereignty over its territorial waters when he joins the 44th and 45th Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) […]
IN line with his commitment to promote better health care services, Sen. Bong Go sought expanded benefits for newborn babies on Monday in support of the 22nd National Newborn Screening (NBS) Convention in Manila. The […]
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