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| View Larger Image | Views on World Poverty: Niger & Nepal (Home Use) | DVDAlso With: TVE.org (Producer)
| List Price: | $19.95 | | | Available: | Usually ships in 24 hours |
| | Binding: | DVD | | Run Time: | 52 minutes | | Format: | NTSC | | Studio: | UNICEF | | Number of Discs: | | | Release Date: | August 18, 2009 | | Sales Rank: | 242,306nd |
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Description
This DVD includes two films about malnutrition and how it affects children and pregnant mothers.Although the syndromes in each region are different, poverty is the root cause of protein energy malnutrition in Nepal and iron deficiency anemia in Niger.Program One: Niger is one of the poorest countries in the world, and less than a third of its population has access to any health care. Malnutrition remains the main cause of maternal and infant mortality and well over half of all pregnant women suffer from iron deficiency anemia. This program follows two traditional birth attendants as they try to persuade women to take iron folate supplements and visit hospitals, which is often prohibitively expensive. The program also visits Tanzania, where it is malaria that is blamed for the increase in anemia which, in some areas, affects 93 per cent of children under five.Program Two: Nepal is trying to tackle the vicious cycle of infant malnutrition and poverty. Set in the visually striking valley of Kathmandu, capital city of Nepal viewers are introduced to Dev Kumari, a 42 year old migrant woman who struggles to sustain her large extended family. Her children and grandchildren are locked into an invisible cycle that is crippling Nepal's development. Protein Energy Malnutrition, or PEM, not only causes stunting, slow development, disease and death amongst young children today, it also has a disastrous knock on effect on each successive eneration - a cycle that is proving hard to break.(c) 2001 UNICEF - All Rights ReservedTotal Running Time: 52 MinutesThis product is manufactured on demand using DVD-R recordable media. Amazon.com's standard return policy will apply. |
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