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Malnutrition

A mother is feeding her child

06 February 2023

Nutrition

We work to ensure all children and women in South Asia can get the nutritious foods, services and healthy food environments.

A wasted child eating soup in a hospital in Afghanistan

Care for severely wasted children

UNICEF is working to strengthen community and health systems to detect, refer and treat severely wasted children across South Asia.

Junk food

22 September 2023

Junk food is inescapable in youth’s lives

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18 September 2023

UNICEF calls for more investment as South Asia remains a global epicentre for undernourished and anaemic adolescent girls and women

Despite progress, South Asia has over one third of the world’s stunted children (nearly 54 million) and over 25 million children suffer from wasting.

Hazrat Ali holding his 19-month-old son, Sudais

Healing young lives through nutrition interventions

With German support, UNICEF's Integrated Nutrition Programme helps cure malnutrition in infants

4 month old Farahnaz's height is measured at the UNICEF-supported provincial hospital

Four steps to deliver results for malnourished children

With 1 in 5 children under five living in urban areas of Afghanistan, UNICEF pioneers initiative to tackle malnutrition with the European Union

Safa is suffering from severe acute malnutrition

Measles cases surge - I’m scared for vulnerable children

Measles cases have surged in countries with the most zero-dose children

Afghanistan Ghor malnutrition Sorayaa and Ehsan

Malnutrition in mothers soars by 25 per cent in crisis-hit countries, putting women and newborn babies at risk – UNICEF

With half of stunting in children under 2 developing during pregnancy and before six months, new report raises the alarm on the need to invest in essential nutrition programmes for adolescent girls and women

24 January 2023

As the pace of urbanization quickens in Asia-Pacific, so too does the threat of urban food insecurity – UN agencies report

Humaira 8 years old, who have taken refuge with her family on higher roadside in Mirpur Khas District, Sindh Province, Pakistan.

09 January 2023

Up to 4 million children in Pakistan still living next to stagnant and contaminated floodwater

Child survival crisis remains acute in flood-affected areas as rates of respiratory infections and severe acute malnutrition soar