Nine-year-old Jason Lopez looks at a ball at the Catarino Rivas hospital in San Pedro Sula
Nine-year-old Jason Lopez looks at a ball at the Catarino Rivas hospital where he is being treated for severe malnutrition after police were tipped off to his condition by neighbors of his family's home in San Pedro Sula, April 10, 2008. Jason, whose 11 kg of weight is an extreme case in Honduras where nearly 30 percent of all children suffer from malnutrition, according to a report from the United Nations' World Food Programme. The child was abandoned by his parents who were detained by the police and later released by the authorities. REUTERS/Edgard Garrido (HONDURAS)