Too many children around the world are still malnourished and too few countries are on track to address the problem that has ...

The numbers are staggering, especially because good nutrition is the building block of development and the anchor of human health. In all its forms, most of the world's potential is wasting away ...

While progress has been made, with 9.3 million children receiving life-saving treatment in 2023—a 27% increase from the previous year—wasting remains a persistent challenge. The document highlights ...

Worsening climate conditions, such as droughts, raise the likelihood of both wasting and underweight by almost 50%, putting an additional burden on the most vulnerable people. Investments to scale up ...

and mitigate the impact of wasting will require an average annual investment of $7 billion over the next 10 years. This is in addition to the $3.9 billion the world currently spends on nutrition ...

"In the past two years an unprecedented global response has allowed the scale-up of nutrition programmes to contain child wasting and its associated mortality in countries severely affected by ...

“The situation is quite dire in Pakistan, with stunting and wasting heavily prevalent in the country”, according to the latest report published on Thursday by Pakistan Nutrition Cluster and ...

insulin resistance and hormone changes are suspected in the wasting syndrome, according to the National Cancer Institute. Cachexia can't be reversed by nutrition alone, but must be treated with ...