Cherokee Sage Woman

U.N.: Hunger Kills 6M Kids Yearly

ROME, Nov. 22, 2005
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Of the six million children who die annually from hunger and malnutrition many die from treatable diseases — a number roughly equal to the whole pre-school population of a large country such as Japan. (AP)


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"We want economies around the world to improve; that is really what's going to provide the long-term stable base upon which people are let out of poverty."

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U.S. Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns


(AP) Hunger and malnutrition are killing nearly six million children a year, and more people are malnourished in sub-Saharan Africa this decade than in the 1990s, according to a U.N. report released Tuesday.

Many of the children — the figure roughly equals the whole pre-school population of a large country such as Japan — die from diseases that are treatable, including diarrhea, pneumonia, malaria and measles, said the report by the Rome-based U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization.