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Phan Bopha eats her meal before her class

Nutrition crisis looms as more than 39 billion in-school meals missed since start of pandemic – UNICEF and WFP

School meals, often the one nutritious daily meal that children get, must be prioritized in school reopening plans

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Regional Overview of Food Security and Nutrition 2020

This is the third annual report jointly written by United Nations agencies on progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals

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UN agencies warn economic impact of COVID-19 and worsening inequalities will fuel malnutrition for billions in Asia and the Pacific

Child and maternal diets particularly vulnerable

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UNICEF: An additional 6.7 million children under 5 could suffer from wasting this year due to COVID-19

As part of its Reimagine campaign, UNICEF calls for accelerated action to prevent and treat malnutrition caused by pandemic as humanitarian community appeals for $2.4 billion to improve maternal and child nutrition

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Asia and the Pacific Regional Overview of Food Security

With nearly half-a-billion of the world’s undernourished people living in Asia-Pacific – and with the 2030 deadline for Zero Hunger just a decade away

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Three million undernourished people in Asia-Pacific need to be lifted out of hunger every single month until the end of 2030 to achieve Sustainable Development Goal

UN agencies warn on the state of malnutrition across the world’s hungriest region and call for nutrition to be placed at the heart of social protection programmes

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THE STATE OF THE WORLD'S CHILDREN 2019: East Asia & Pacific

In 2018, 13 million children under 5 were stunted and 4.5 million were wasted in East Asia and the Pacific

Improving Policies, Programmes, and Partnerships for Maternal and Child Nutrition in Asia

EAPRO Meeting on Accelerating Progress to Manage Severe Wast

Five million children in the East Asia and Pacific Region in 2019 are wasted; 80 per cent of them are under the age of two years. What can be done to addres

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New fish-based ready-to-use-therapeutic food to treat children with severe acute malnutrition in Cambodia

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2018 Global Nutrition Report reveals malnutrition is unacceptably high and affects every country in the world, but there is also an unprecedented opportunity to end it