Campaigns against Hunger

Oral Vaccination Campaigns of Dogs against Rabies

Effective control of terrestrial wildlife rabies seemed almost impossible in Europe until the development of oral vaccination. Nowadays, oral vaccination of foxes (Vulpes vulpes) by distributing vaccine baits is the method of choice in rabies control in most European countries. Consequently, large areas are now rabies-free and here baits are no longer distributed or the distribution of baits is...

Campaigns against acid violence spur change.

Bangladesh is one of a number of countries trying to prevent acid violence through legislation while providing specialized care for victims, but attitudes to women need to change for there to be further progress. Patralekha Chatterjee reports. It happened twelve years ago, but Asma Akhtar still remembers the assault vividly. A spurned suitor in his late 20s sneaked into her family's mud shack i...

Childhood hunger.

Interest in the extent of hunger in the United States has fluctuated over the years. There was little public discussion of the subject during the post-Depression era until the mid-1960s, when unscientific but dramatic media exposés of the extent of hunger in the country helped launch the “war on poverty.” By 1979, the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Nutrition proclaimed “the virtual defeat of hunge...

Prevalence and intensity of food insecurity (hunger and hidden hunger aspects) in AsadAbadi region of Tabriz

Background: Food insecurity and hunger not only affect physical health, but also have social and psychological effects. Therefore, providing food security for society is one of the major goals of social and economical development programs. The objective of this study was to determine the prevalence and intensity of food insecurity at North West of Tabriz as a population sample of East Azerb...

Hunger and Malnutrition