US cuts to foreign aid could be ‘a death sentence for millions of people experiencing extreme hunger and starvation’, says ...

While protein deficiency is common, many people do not take it seriously. Issues like extreme hair fall and brittle nails are among the signs of a lack of this macronutrient. However, there are also ...

He ditched his European (slave) name «Mike» and adopted the name Shaka, derived from his father Omugurusi Mushakamba’s name.

Day in, and day out, the country staggers under the debilitating weight of widespread unemployment, industrial kwashiorkor and deepening poverty and depravity. There seems to be no end in sight.

When I was there, many bore the swollen bellies and red-tinged hair of kwashiorkor, a disorder brought on by extreme protein deficiency, and I was told that many had died from starvation or hunger ...

“Seeing him like that, I almost lost my mind,” he recounts, adding, “He looked like he had a severe form of kwashiorkor.” Kimwele, right away began a heart-wrenching medical journe ...

Benjamin Itu, founder of the Hold My Hand Foundation, a non-governmental organization (NGO) that cares for street and ...

The condition was consistent with kwashiorkor, a complication to malnutrition rarely seen in AN. Kwashiorkor is a nutritional syndrome caused by protein deficiency in the diet, meaning ‘the disease of ...

management of kwashiorkor patients, early detection of malnutrition, management of non-responders, early detection of comorbidities such as tuberculosis and HIV, revision/implementation of admissions ...