HEALTH: Hope for 20 Million Emaciated Children

Nergui Manalsuren

UNITED NATIONS, Jun 25 2007 (IPS) – When 189 world leaders met at U.N. headquarters in New York in 2000, they pledged to take a number of steps to make a real dent in poverty and hunger.
Plumpy'nut is given to 10-month-old Bereket Geyidere at the Segen Clinic in Ethiopia. Credit: UNICEF/Indrias Getachew

Plumpy’nut is given to 10-month-old Bereket Geyidere at the Segen Clinic in Ethiopia. Credit: UNICEF/Indrias Getachew

Despite their promises some seven years ago, however, millions of children continue to suffer from severe malnutriti…