An estimated 25,000 people die each day from malnutrition-related causes.

However, there has been a notable drop of malnutrition-related deaths among hospitals due to training and capacity development geared at the hospital staff.

In her village, Duressa, population 300, five children have died in the last month of malnutrition-related ailments.

This morning, 48 of the 65 dead were adults, Mr. Ahmed said, many died from malnutrition-related diseases.

In the best of circumstances, about 100,000 boys and girls like Aberash will die of malnutrition-related ailments this year in Ethiopia.

Of the Somali population of 4.5 million people, over half were in severe danger of starvation and malnutrition-related disease, mostly in the drought-stricken rural areas.

In Wag Hamra alone, the northern area that includes Shimider, at least 10,000 children under age 5 died last year, thousands of them from malnutrition-related causes.

While Detudamo wrote letters to Allied commanders pleading for help, Nauruans continued to die of malnutrition-related illnesses and simple starvation.

Ms. Moore said that at certain camps, she had seen a marked increase in malnutrition-related diseases among children but that the adults seemed to have fared relatively well.

First, the most vulnerable - children and the elderly - and then adults succumb to dehydration and malnutrition-related illnesses such as diarrhoea and TB.

Epidemic Forms of Diseases Malnutrition-related diseases, Mr. Trung wrote, "occur in some localities in apparently epidemic forms, such as beriberi and neuritis, followed by organic atrophy."

The United Nations found that malnutrition-related deaths were common in Matadi Prison in Lower Congo Province and Kananga Prison in Kasai-Occidental Province.

In a report to the council on Monday, he drew attention to qualms United Nations officials have about sanctions when more than half a million Afghans have been displaced by hunger and many have died of starvation, cold or malnutrition-related illnesses.

Moreover, the female DALYs to male DALYs ratio for malnutrition-related diseases such as Iron-Deficiency Anemia are often close to 1.5, suggesting that poor nutrition impacts women at a much higher level than men.

Even after the 2006 South African amendment of the District Health Information System, which was supposed to provide the case fatality rates of severe malnourishment among children in hospitals, the lack of identification of malnutrition-related deaths remains high.

Death Nor Far Away Much of central and southern Somalia remains mired in famine, and 200 to 300 people continue to die daily in the nearby center of Baidoa as malnutrition-related diseases and lack of clean water join starvation as a killer.