Yemen Children Malnutrition
An estimated 85 000 children under the age of five may have died from acute malnutrition in three years of war in yemen a leading charity says.
Yemen children malnutrition. Nearly 2 2 million yemeni children are acutely malnourished and an estimated 462 000 children suffer from severe acute malnutrition almost a three fold rise over 2014 levels. The number is equivalent to the entire under five. As the coronavirus spreads tens of thousands more children could develop life threatening severe acute malnutrition over the next six months while the overall number of malnourished children under the age of five could increase to a total of 2 4 million. Read more about how the coronavirus is impacting children in yemen.
Yemen s children starve amid rising fears of famine 4 min read hajjah yemen reuters weighing just 9kg at ten years old hassan merzam muhammad is so emaciated by the severe malnourishment.