From droughts and floods exacerbating food problems to conflicts and endemic violence causing mass displacements, people across Africa continue to suffer in silence as the world focuses on crises elsewhere.
Child malnutrition is no stranger to high-income countries. In Canada and the U.S., food insecurity affects one in six children under 18, but policies to address the issue are still lacking.
In this article, the findings of selected observational studies are contrasted with that of randomised experiments conducted to estimate the impact of improved sanitation on child health in India. The estimation bias exists and could be due to the measurement error in sanitation indicators, which remained unaddressed by most observational studies. The sanitation indicators
In a food-secure, upper-middle income country such as ours, we should hang our heads that these young lives, full of hope and promise, have been cut short by a completely preventable condition.