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WASTING | THE By 2025, reduce and maintain

6
GOAL childhood wasting to less
than 5%

WHY IT MATTERS
RECOMMENDED ACTIONS

Children become wasted when they lose


weight rapidly because of diets SCALE UP TREATMENT
do not cover
that

nutritional needs WHAT? Scale up coverage of services


for the identification and
treatment of wasting

Improve the identification,


HOW?
Wasting increases risk of measurement and understanding
of wasting
stunted growth,
impaired
cognitive COORDINATION
development
& non-communicable WHAT? Improve coordination between key
government ministries
diseases in adulthood
HOW? Link treatment
strategies for
Increased risk of acute malnutrition
to prevention strategies
childdeaths from for wasting and stunting
infectious throughout the life-course
diseases
such as diarrhoea, pneumonia
and measles BUILD THE EVIDENCE

WHAT? Develop evidence for


Wasting is linked with the
effective prevention strategies
other global nutrition targets:
• stunting • anaemia in women Rapidly develop evidence to
HOW?
reduce the burden of wasting,
• breastfeeding • low birth weight which can then be translated
into policy actions
• childhood overweight

SCOPE OF THE PROBLEM


Globally

52
The current global levels
of severe wasting are A child that is wasted is

million children
responsible for up to

2 million 3 times
under 5 are moderately deaths annually more likely to die
or severely wasted than a healthy child

To improve maternal, infant


and young child nutrition

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