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The Basics — Background — Malnutrition Deeply

The causes of malnutrition are equally diverse and range from conflict, like in South Sudan and Yemen, to climate change to structural inequalities. Increasingly, efforts … See more

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Community Health Workers Can Reduce Acute Malnutrition: …

WebEnlisting community health workers to help diagnose and treat acute malnutrition may significantly increase coverage and save lives, according to new …

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New York Declaration on Refugees: A One-Year Report Card

WebOne year ago, 193 members of the United Nations adopted the New York Declaration on Refugees and Migrants, which laid out an action plan for a new era in refugee response. …

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Living in California’s San Joaquin Valley May Harm Your Health

WebThe San Joaquin Valley is particularly hard hit by nitrate: 63 percent of the state’s public water systems that report violations of health standards for the contaminant in 2015 …

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Fixing a Broken Humanitarian System That Is Failing Refugees

WebFixing a Broken Humanitarian System That Is Failing Refugees’ Health. In an excerpt from The Lancet, refugee health expert Paul Spiegel argues that the …

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Jessica Leber — Oceans Deeply

WebJessica Leber . Jessica Leber is deputy managing editor for Oceans Deeply and is based in New York City. She has covered environment, science, tech and health topics for a …

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The Battle to Save Public Drinking Fountains from Extinction

WebThe Battle to Save Public Drinking Fountains from Extinction. Concerns about water quality and contamination have led to the decline of public water-fountain use and …

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Jennifer Gordon — Refugees Deeply

WebJennifer Gordon Professor of Law, Fordham University in New York. Professor Jennifer Gordon has taught at Fordham University School of Law in New York City since 2003. …

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Social Behavior Change for Nutrition: Six Years of Global

WebOur work in nutrition SBC is most effective when we work with partners toward longer-term social, physical, and market environment changes, while also …

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California Drought’s Impact on Health to be Revealed

WebThe drought has consequences for human health, both physical and emotional. One study in Tulare County recently attempted to quantify these effects via …

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Doctors Without Borders: Undernutrition Is a Community — …

WebThe medical humanitarian group Doctors Without Borders introduced community management of malnutrition in Jharkhand last year. The Indian state has …

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Island of Coral Resilience Shows Hope – and Limits – for Reefs

WebST. GEORGE ’S, Bermuda – In 2014, leading coral scientists put out a blunt report: reefs in the Caribbean were in such bad shape they were at risk of vanishing …

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Obesity and Malnutrition: Two Sides of One Crisis

WebAnother form of malnutrition is overnutrition, when someone’s diet contains an excess or imbalance of energy, protein and micronutrients, and that can lead to …

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Women’s NGOs Are Changing the World

WebThe economic empowerment of poor women in Tanzania was identified as one of the founding goals of the project because of the advocacy work done by the …

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Analysis: A Model For Rebuilding Infrastructure in

WebThe Idlib Health Directorate (IHD) is emblematic of the crucial role structured local coordination groups can play in the international humanitarian response.The IHD …

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Life Cycle: Why Periods are a Global Health Issue

WebLife Cycle: Why Periods are a Global Health Issue. Menstruation has serious physical and psychological consequences, particularly for girls and women in low …

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What a New Yorker Learned on Frontline of Turkey’s Refugee Crisis

WebAs conflict, war and oppression continue unabated across the world, so does the flow of people fleeing persecution and violence. At the crossroads of this crisis is …

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Gene Pollution Threatens Wild Salmon. A Solution: Sterile

WebIn a 2017 paper in the ICES Journal of Marine Science, Torbjørn Forseth, a senior research scientist at NINA, concluded that genetic introgression from farmed to …

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Introducing a Saami-Centered Solution to Substance Abuse

WebSANKS provides short-term, long-term and acute treatment for mental health, alcohol and substance abuse issues, combined with cultural education, research …

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Lucky Iron Fish Raise Questions About How Best to Address

WebCurrently, there are 5,000–7,000 Lucky Iron Fish being used in Cambodia. The majority have been distributed in bulk by NGOs and aid organizations for $5 a fish, …

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Experts Warn Data Gaps Are Undermining Botswana’s

WebGABORONE, Botswana – Five-year-old Calvin Puleng has been battling undernutrition for more than three years. “We found out that Calvin had malnutrition …

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Five Things We Learned at CSW62 — Women's Advancement Deeply

WebFive Things We Learned at CSW62. Highlights from a closing session, organized by NGO CSW / NY and News Deeply, on the outcomes of the 62nd …

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