{"id":208999,"date":"2025-10-05T19:19:51","date_gmt":"2025-10-05T17:19:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/angola-over-25000-children-diagnosed-with-malnutrition-in-huila\/"},"modified":"2025-10-05T19:19:51","modified_gmt":"2025-10-05T17:19:51","slug":"angola-over-25000-children-diagnosed-with-malnutrition-in-huila","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/angola-over-25000-children-diagnosed-with-malnutrition-in-huila\/","title":{"rendered":"Angola: Over 25,000 Children Diagnosed With Malnutrition in Huila"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"49\">Lubango \u2014 At least 25,759 children under five years of age were diagnosed with severe acute malnutrition during the first semester of this year in Huila province, a rate of 13%, 4.9% lower than in the same period in 2024, the director of the provincial health office, Paulo Luvangamo told ANGOP.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">The World Health Organization (WHO) defines malnutrition as a nutritional imbalance caused by inadequate nutrient intake, resulting in weight and height deficits, a common condition in developing&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202510030042.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Angola\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/angola\/\">Angola<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lubango \u2014 At least 25,759 children under five years of age were diagnosed with severe acute malnutrition during the first semester of this year in Huila province, a rate of 13%, 4.9% lower than in the same period in 2024, the director of the provincial health office, Paulo Luvangamo told ANGOP. The World Health Organization [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":209000,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4262],"tags":[258,256,3941,4263,7371,12574,13073,2251,257,254],"class_list":["post-208999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-angola","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-angola","tag-angola-news","tag-children","tag-diagnosed","tag-huila","tag-malnutrition","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208999\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}