No time to Waste - Improving diets, services and practices for the prevention, early detection
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Children suffering from wasting are some of the most vulnerable children on the planet. The solutions to prevent, detect and treat child malnutrition are well known, and with adequate investment and collaboration – and political will – we can take these solutions to scale. This will get us back on track and end malnutrition for good. To help make this possible, UNICEF has launched ‘No Time to Waste’, which highlights key practical challenges to reaching the 10 million children most vulnerable to life-threatening wasting that go untreated every year, by focusing on results that will accelerate and improve the prevention, early detection and treatment of child wasting. The report includes a clear package of measures to scale up the five core components required to prevent, detect and treat wasting:
- Improve our understanding of why and where children become wasted.
- Increase access to the services children and women need to prevent wasting.
- Improve services to detect wasting, as early as possible.
- Scale up community-based treatment.
- Improve children’s access to ready-to-use therapeutic foods.
Publisher
UNICEF
Publication date
2021
Language
English
