Ivory Coast

29-Mar-2010]
Malnutrition is the root cause of many childhood diseases in Ivory Coast where one out of three children will not live to celebrate their fifth birthday. The global food crisis has intensified chronic malnutrition. Fatoumata is Silue's ninth child and weighed only 2.2 kilograms at six weeks. Her mother took her to the UNICEF-supported Red Cross's Therapeutic nutrition centre in Korogho. Available video includes a narrated news package.
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