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Togo malnutrition unacceptably high, aid to start - UNICEF
The international community is sending therapeutic food to communities in Togo, where a UN study into children's health and welfare has shown that in some areas nearly one in three children suffers from acute malnutrition.
The study, which the UN children's fund (UNICEF) completed in 2006, calls malnutrition rates in two regions in the north of the country and one in the south "unacceptably high". UNICEF is set to launch a project it says will save children's lives as well as help prevent malnutrition, which the study said causes 51 percent of child deaths in Togo.
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