Friday, October 31, 2014

Food Insecurity and Chronic Child Malnourishment Plaguing Maasai of Tanzania

Research led by the London School of Hygiene (and) Tropical Medicine has revealed that the health of Maasai children is very poor compared to other ethnic groups. This was the first in-depth study of its kind of the Maasai people of Tanzania. r The new research, published in iPLOS ONE/i, shows that four out of five Maasai households face severe food insecurity and nearly 60% of Maasai children are chronically malnourished. Maasai children were also more frequently ...

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