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Add to Preferred SourcesAction Against Hunger, the world’s hunger specialist, announced Band Together, a global campaign to raise awareness about rising rates of deadly hunger. The campaign aims to empower parents around the world and scale up medical interventions to address this growing public health issue.
Launched in Kenya and the U.S., Band Together centers around an inexpensive arm band that acts as a “nutrition thermometer” and is the first step in hunger treatment. The band wraps around the middle of a child’s upper arm, stopping at a color that corresponds to their nutrition status: green indicates good health; yellow or red mean the child is malnourished. With nearly half of all child deaths linked to malnutrition, this simple tool can help save millions of lives. Action Against Hunger aims to get millions more bands, training, and treatment to families in need around the world.
Banding together with other international NGOs, Action Against Hunger released a joint statement calling on world leaders to ensure a more effective, efficient and accessible hunger treatment system. Fifty million children globally suffer from acute malnutrition, yet fewer than one in four has access to care. If the world stays on its current path, tens of millions more children will die of hunger by 2030, the target for the UN Sustainable Development Goal of ending malnutrition worldwide.
According to the 2015 Global Nutrition Report, every $1 spent fighting malnutrition deliver as much as a $16 return to society.
Original source: Action Against Hunger
Published on 16 October 2019