Malnutrition is a medical and humanitarian emergency that accounts for 11 percent of the global burden of disease, contributes to the deaths of between 3.5 million and 5 million children younger than five each year, and leads to long-term poor health, disability and poor educational and development outcomes.1
Worldwide, 146 million children are underweight, and at any given moment 20 million children are suffering from the most deadly form of severe acute malnutrition. According to UNICEF, undernutrition is actually getting worse in 16 high-burden countries, while many more are not progressing towards meeting the Millennium Development Goal target of reducing undernutrition by half between 1990 and 2015.2
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