were excluded from the analysis. The global acute malnutrition (WHZ and/or bilateral edema) results are presented in figure 1 below. Ten cases of bilateral edema were found in seven of the eight surveyed states; there were no cases of marasmic kwashiorkor (children with SAM and bilateral edema). Table 1: Prevalence of global and severe acute malnutrition in children 6 to 59 months of age by state (WHZ WHO 2006 & MUAC WHO/UNICEF 2009) Acute Malnutrition WHZ State N 701 814 845 867 688 689 765 719 Global
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Singer’s Famine‚ Affluence‚ and Morality Ametra Heard PHI208 Ethics and Moral Reasoning Instructor Zummuna Davis January 14‚ 2013 Singer’s Famine‚ Affluence‚ and Morality In the Peter Singer’s article “Famine‚ Affluence‚ and Morality”‚ he discusses the way that people should take moral in their help toward the support of the Bengal famine crisis. Singer states three obligations that would help the Bengal region through the means of a wealthy person‚ and those individuals living life on a day
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Famine‚ Affluence‚ and Morality Derick Kaslon PHI 200 Prof. Patricia Addesso February 25‚ 2013 Based on the article by Peter Singer entitled Famine‚ Affluence‚ and Morality‚ he attempts to move us to do more for charities and gives one astounding example. He uses starving children in Bengali and a drowning child. He argues that people have many different reasons to [delete] why they do not donate. His vision is that the people and the government should take care of the problem. He uses a great
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by the Potato Famine because the potato was their staple crop. C. The population during the famine dropped from 8.1 million to 6.8 million. D. Why was the famine so severe even though it was during the modern age? Thesis: The impact of the Irish Potato Famine would not have been as devastating if England hadn’t controlled Ireland by foreclosing thriving industries‚ passing negative political acts‚ and lacking concern for Ireland’s welfare. II The famine would not have
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Georgia Rudd states in her essay that Evelyn Pellicane points out in her essay‚ “The Irish Famine‚ 1845-1849‚” that the contributory causes of an economic event can increase the effect of the more obvious immediate causes (333). My friends and I have experienced the difference between makeup stores and the quality of makeup. I have noticed that some stores do not sell a lot of makeup. I have been introduced to many brands of makeup that are cheap and expensive with good quality. I have also experienced
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Feeding children in Mogadishu was very difficult‚ ‘’ Fatia and Halima are fighting to protect their children from malnutrition”. The parents don’t want the children to be malnourished‚ “ don’t want babies to become weak and malnourished”. They rely on the world food programme‚ “ the clinic gives out monthly rations of plumpy sup a peanut butter based ready to easy paste packet vitamins‚ minerals‚ and‚ other nutrients”. The food comes all ready made as they don’t have the resources to cook
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The First sign of famine was exposed during the Korean War. Wikipedia has come to the findings of famine starting in the early 1952. The government’s food reserves had ran out in May of that year. Foreign Minister Pak Hon-yong told the Communist diplomats one-quarter of the rural population was starving. Before anyone could act in time many people died of hunger. Soon after an external aid of (50‚000 metric tons of flour and 20‚000 metric tons of artificial fertilizer was received from the Soviet
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World hunger is an issue that should affect us all. Everyone has felt hunger pains‚ or claimed that they are “starving” if it’s been a while since their last meal. But most of us have never experienced real hunger - chronic hunger. Chronic hunger means not having enough daily nutrition to meet the requirements for days‚ weeks‚ or even months. It means being too weak to fight off disease‚ and dying from common infections. It means kids going blind from a lack of Vitamin A‚ or having brittle bines
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From 1983 to 1985‚ a famine in Ethiopia had disastrous consequences. The death toll was much higher than previous famines‚ as over a million had died. Many people blamed this famine on droughts that had been taking place all over Ethiopia’s provinces. This was not the case. The drought did‚ of course‚ contribute but the main reason for the severity of the famine was the government. The government worsened the famine in three ways: promoting Communism and its policies‚ blocking aid‚ and annexing
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Extreme global poverty is a problem that affects a large percentage of the world’s population and will continue to spread until serious action is taken against it by the wealthier nations. However‚ the amount of obligation‚ if any‚ that countries feel they have to deal with such a problem is a main source of controversy and one of the reasons why poverty is taking so long to be reduced. This obligation to help others introduces the concept of utilitarianism. In general‚ this idea requires an individual
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