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PRIMARY HEALTH CARE SERVICES
While discussing the basic human rights, the first thing that comes in mind is the health of any individual. It is very important to highlight the health issues in any region and provide the primary health care services to the communities specially the underserved communities living in the suburbs. Primary health care services must include the day to day health of any individual and vaccinations of the new born and adults. In case of health response, immediate actions are required for mitigating any disease from the region and provide preventive measures against the disease. Not only this, people living in the suburbs also have lack of health services. Government have sanctioned Basic Health Units (BHUs) in far long areas which are not easily accessible, however, most of the health units are not well equipped to provide the basic health services to the people residing beside. For the primary health care services, it is required to make the health units strong while ensuring the availability every important medications and testin facilities.

FOOD SECURITY
Food security, as defined by the United Nations' Committee on World Food Security, is the condition in which all people, at all times, have physical, social and economic access to sufficient safe and nutritious food that meets their dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy life. Over the coming decades, a changing climate, growing global population, rising food prices, and environmental stressors will have significant yet highly uncertain impacts on food security. Adaptation strategies and policy responses to global change, including options for handling water allocation, land use patterns, food trade, post-harvest food processing, and food prices and safety are urgently needed. These policy responses will be vital to improve the living conditions of farmers and rural populations across the globe.Economic growth is only sustainable if all countries have food security. Without country-owned and country-driven food security strategies, there will be obstacles and additional costs to global, regional, and country-level economic growth. Food security needs to encompass women and other vulnerable and disadvantages groups.

NUTRITION SUPPORT
Nutrition is key to human well-being, but far too many people around the world are afflicted by poor nutrition. Malnutrition is a complex, multi-sectoral problem that presents across a continuum of poor nutrition, from under-nutrition due to deficiencies in energy, protein, and micronutrients (and high rates of infections) to problems of overweight, obesity, and no communicable diseases, which result from poor quality, energy-dense and micronutrient-poor diets and low physical activity. The first 1,000 days of life (from conception to a child's second birthday) are critical to ensuring good nutrition. Failing to do so has long-lasting, irreversible consequences into adulthood, including stunted growth, stunted brains, and stunted nations as a result of the lower education, productivity, and poorer health and nutrition of its work force. We are witnessing multiple burdens of malnutrition, with some countries, communities and households suffering from combinations of undernutrition, overweight and obesity, and micronutrient deficiencies. Grappling with these multiple burdens of malnutrition are deeply tied to political, social and economic factors. There are currently 784 million people who are undernourished, 159 million children under five who are chronically undernourished or stunted, 50 million children under five who are acutely malnourished or wasted, and 2 billion and 1.2 billion people who are estimated to be iron and zinc deficient respectively.

Manzil Organization Balochistan's
nutrition research focuses on addressing all forms of malnutrition through strengthening and rigorously evaluating multi-sectoral programs and policies that aim at improving the diets, nutritional status, and health of mothers, infants, and young children during the first 1,000 days and at other critical stages of the lifecycle (for example, adolescence).