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…s Among children under 5 years of age, 7.6% were suffering from diarrhoea, 35.6% from stunting, 9.8% from wasting and 27.1% from underwei…

…given time, and, of these, 12.2 million were severely wasted. 1 Nutritional oedema is not captured in these estimates, yet there are likely hundre…

…ts (SQ-LNS) have been shown to prevent child wasting, stunting, anaemia and mortality among children 6–23 months of age in low- and mid…

…ever. However, there is limited empirical evidence on effective wasting prevention strategies and optimal targeting criteria. These evi…

…housands more infants and children are estimated to suffer from nutritional oedema. 1 2 Wasting and nutritional oedema are complex child health ch…