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Infant and maternal undernutrition is the leading cause of the global burden of disease

Source: Ezzati etc al 2002

Transformative Goal:

Eliminate hunger and micro and macronutrient malnutrition in children.

Defining the Global Challenge:

• Child and maternal under-nutrition accounts for 35% of the disease burden in children younger than five years, and is the number one cause of the total global disease burden.^{1, 5}
• Annually, 1.7 million children die because of severe acute malnutrition and 3.6 million die because of moderate acute malnutrition.⁴
• Just four micronutrients, Vitamin A, Zinc, Iron and Iodine, account for over 1.1 million preschool deaths per year.¹
• Malnutrition accelerates the onset of symptoms for people infected with HIV/AIDS. Yet one of the earliest side-effects of AIDS is reduced consumption of food in affected households.³

CIFF Investments in Nutrition and Hunger Alleviation