“That silence is also a call for action,” she said. She told the council that in too many nutrition wards and camps for the displaced she has visited, the eerie silence of small children fighting for their lives who are too weak to cry because of malnutrition “never leaves you.” Ghelani said international collaboration is essential. High Level Task Force on Preventing Famine established in 2021 and headed by Reena Ghelani. He called for a single body to galvanize collective action - the U.N. Miliband told the council there is also a proliferation of different global initiatives on famine and food insecurity. He said the solution is simply to put a tape around a child’s arm and measure the circumference to diagnose malnutrition and provide one or two doses of therapeutic food per day depending on whether the case is severe or moderate.
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