Child Wasting
Child Wasting

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Child Wasting

Wasting is the most lethal form of malnutrition: 1 in 5 deaths among children under five—1 million deaths per year—can be attributed to severe wasting. For those that survive, it has long-term consequences for their physical health and withers their minds. But it is entirely preventable with a handful of scalable, effective interventions.