{"id":27577,"date":"2021-11-17T04:00:41","date_gmt":"2021-11-17T04:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/?p=27577"},"modified":"2021-11-17T04:00:41","modified_gmt":"2021-11-17T04:00:41","slug":"who-75-of-yemens-children-chronically-malnourished","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/who-75-of-yemens-children-chronically-malnourished\/","title":{"rendered":"WHO: 75% of Yemen\u2019s Children Chronically Malnourished"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The World Health Organization [WHO] warned that 75 percent of Yemeni children suffer from acute malnutrition, as Saudi Arabia keeps bombing the southern impoverished neighbor in defiance of international calls to end its bloody war. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In a post on its Twitter account on Monday, the UN agency responsible for international public health warned that three out of four children in Yemen are \u201cchronically malnourished.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It also estimated that 16.2 million Yemenis \u2013 more than half of the country\u2019s population of 30 million \u2013 are food insecure.<\/p>\n<p>Acute malnutrition is responsible for almost one-third of all deaths in children under five years of age. It damages a child\u2019s physical development and causes intellectual or cognitive impairment among those who survive. Malnutrition is largely irreversible, perpetuating illness, poverty, and inequality.<\/p>\n<p>Today, Yemen is one of the most dangerous places in the world for children to grow up, with high rates of communicable diseases, limited access to health services, and inadequate sanitation and hygiene systems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The World Health Organization [WHO] warned that 75 percent of Yemeni children suffer from acute malnutrition, as Saudi Arabia keeps bombing the southern impoverished neighbor in defiance of international calls to end its bloody war. In a post on its Twitter account on Monday, the UN agency responsible for international public health warned that three &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":27578,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":2,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-news-and-analysis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27577"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27579,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27577\/revisions\/27579"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}