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When malnutrition and sickness coincide easy to treat illnesses like diarrhea can turn fatal. Malnutrition, for example, remains an underlying cause in over half of all childhood deaths—some 5 million children each year.

Integral to Action Against Hunger’s field programs is a core concern with health. When someone suffers from malnutrition, they face an increased risk of disease and illness. For malnourished infants and young children, this increased risk can often mean the difference between life and death. Similarly, those weakened by sickness can readily fall victim to malnutrition, which then leads to a spiraling decline in their condition. And when malnutrition and sickness coincide, otherwise easy to treat illnesses, like diarrhea, can suddenly turn fatal. In fact, malnutrition remains an underlying cause in 53% of all deaths among children under five.
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"Food security exists when all people, at all times, have physical and economic access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food for a healthy and active life."
— World Food Summit 1996

 

Food Security & Livelihoods

At Action Against Hunger, our food security programming forms a continuum with the work we do in nutrition. While our feeding centers restore to health individuals suffering from severe and acute malnutrition, our food security programs help prevent future outbreaks of it. As defined by the 1996 World Food Summit, “food security exists when all people, at all times, have physical and economic access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food for a healthy and active life.” Unfortunately, far too many people—well over 800 million around the globe—struggle to survive without access to even the most basic, minimal sustenance. And this, in turn, results in the kind of malnutrition that can be fatal if left untreated.
read more at http://www.actionagainsthunger.org/what-we-do/food-security-livelihoods