{"id":23471,"date":"2024-09-12T11:30:02","date_gmt":"2024-09-12T11:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/?p=23471"},"modified":"2024-09-12T11:30:02","modified_gmt":"2024-09-12T11:30:02","slug":"who-says-2-9-million-afghan-children-facing-malnutrition-amid-food-insecurity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/2024\/09\/who-says-2-9-million-afghan-children-facing-malnutrition-amid-food-insecurity\/","title":{"rendered":"WHO says 2.9 million Afghan children facing malnutrition amid food insecurity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>KABUL (SW) &#8211; The World Health Organization (WHO) has reported that due to food insecurity in Afghanistan, 2.9 million children under the age of five are experiencing malnutrition.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In a report released on Thursday, September 12, the WHO\u2019s Afghanistan office highlighted that out of these children, 850,000 are suffering from severe malnutrition.<\/p>\n<p>The organization noted that one-third of Afghanistan&#8217;s population lives in areas with food insecurity, and recent flooding has exacerbated the situation.<\/p>\n<p>The WHO\u2019s report also mentioned that in 2024 year, 21,000 children with severe malnutrition have been treated across 140 nutrition treatment centers in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>The organization has called on the international community for urgent support to provide necessary health and food assistance to the Afghan people.<\/p>\n<p>Previously, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) had indicated that approximately four million children and women in Afghanistan are expected to suffer from severe malnutrition this year.<\/p>\n<h6><em><strong>ENDS<\/strong><\/em><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL (SW) &#8211; The World Health Organization (WHO) has reported that due to food insecurity in Afghanistan, 2.9 million children under the age of five are experiencing malnutrition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":18602,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[990,984,9,218,6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-news","category-soceity","category-health","category-afghanistan","category-headline"],"views":88,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23471"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23473,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23471\/revisions\/23473"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}