Africa: Low-Income Countries Hit By 'Double Burden' of Malnutrition Extremes

19 December 2019

Lower-income countries are increasingly facing a double blow from the impact of both undernutrition and obesity, which often coexist within the same community - and are even found within the same families or individuals.

That's the warning from a report published in The Lancet, which found that 14 countries with among the world's lowest incomes had newly developed this "double burden" of malnutrition by the 2010s compared with the 1990s, even though the prevalence fell in higher-income developing countries.

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