"I wasn’t able to breastfeed my child Shomary, because we had a shortage of food in the house and I didn’t get enough food to produce milk," she says. "As a result he suffered from malnutrition and other health problems like fever and sores. He’s underweight, compared to other children his age."
Malnutrition among the under five still poses a big challenge especially in rural Tanzania, disease burden ,economic, social, and cultural factors and natural calamities like drought make the fight against malnutrition in Tanzania difficult.As malnutrition is a result of a combination of these factors ;its fight equally needs a mult-sectoral approach.
Each day in the developing world, 16,000 children die from hunger or preventable diseases such as diarrhea, acute respiratory infections, or malaria. Malnutrition is associated with over half of those deaths. That is equal to 1 child every 5.4 seconds.
Hungry children suffer from 2 to 4 times more individual health problems--such as unwanted weight loss, fatigue, headaches, irritability, inability to concentrate, and frequent colds--as low-income children whose families do not experience food shortages.
3/4 of all deaths in children under age 5 in the developing world are caused by malnutrition or related diseases.
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