Lesotho
Lesotho At A Glance
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Directing HQ: Action Against Hunger - Spain
Launch Date: 2007
Beneficiaries (2009): 810 people
Institutional Funders: ECHO (European Commission Humanitarian Aid), AECID (Spanish Agency for International Cooperation and Development)
Launch Date: 2007
Beneficiaries (2009): 810 people
Institutional Funders: ECHO (European Commission Humanitarian Aid), AECID (Spanish Agency for International Cooperation and Development)
Press Contact
Carlos Riaza
Prensa y Comunicación Institucional, ACF-Spain
criaza@achesp.org
Direct: +34 91 391 53 06
Prensa y Comunicación Institucional, ACF-Spain
criaza@achesp.org
Direct: +34 91 391 53 06
Lesotho has one of the highest incidences of HIV in the world (23.2%) and 21% of its population has no access to drinking water, despite the fact that its economy is based in part on exportation of water to South Africa. Only 10% of this mountainous country is fit for cultivation. The chronic infant malnutrition rate for this country is 53%.
Field Updates | Lesotho
Action Against Hunger Launches New Health/Nutrition Project In Two Countries With Highest Incidence of AIDS
December 29, 2007
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Madrid, Spain — With little over a million inhabitants each, Swaziland and Lesotho are at the top of the list of countries with the highest prevalence of HIV/AIDS, 33% and 23% respectively. Additionally, the rate of chronic malnutrition affects three out of ten children under five years of age in Lesotho and half the number of children in Swaziland. With those figures on the table, Action Against Hunger / Action Contre la Faim (ACF) has decided to intervene in both countries, and since last October, is developing a health and nutrition project that will allow for the reduction of infant malnutrition caused, in part, by AIDS. » Read more |
