Women who suffer malnutrition are less likely to have healthy babies.
In addition, 100-200 other babies in the province suffered malnutrition but survived.
Half the people suffer malnutrition, a condition aggravated by a three-year drought that only started to end in November.
Due to allied blockades preventing the import of food, the civil population suffered malnutrition and starvation.
These people had few means for survival, and suffered chronic malnutrition.
Women who are desperate and suffer malnutrition are more likely to sell their bodies in order to support themselves.
One in three Afghan children is an orphan, almost half suffer chronic malnutrition.
Half a billion people, about one of every eight, are suffering chronic malnutrition today.
Sedentary individuals and those eating less to lose weight may suffer malnutrition if they eat food supplying empty calories but not enough nutrients.
In the worst cases they actually suffer malnutrition as a consequence of media-induced fear of crime.