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Malnutrition

A woman holds her daughter, who is being checked for malnourishment.

Nutrition

Preventing and treating malnutrition in South Sudan

A girl sitting with RUTF in her hand

Unpacking RUTF

What you need to know about ready-to-use therapeutic food

A man doing registration of women and children

Akoon Akoon

A towering community nutrition worker

women sitting on a large plastic mat

Changing Perceptions and Growing Gardens

Educating mothers about appropriate food is preventing malnutrition among children

A boy with a toy mad out of a juice box

Playing is not (only) for fun

Playing can speed up recovery after child malnutrition

A mother holding her malnourished daughter

Don’t Stop!

The many benefits of breastfeeding after six months

Suraya Hatam is breastfeeding her son Husni

One third of babies in South Sudan are not exclusively breastfed

More actions are needed to further promote breastfeeding, said UNICEF at the start of the World Breastfeeding Week

A baby sitting on his mother's lap

Saving a life with a little knowledge, peanuts and milk

UNICEF supported nutrition centres provide knowledge and provisions that save lives

Deng looking into the camera

Medicine sharing is threatening children’s lives

Poverty is robbing children suffering from malnutrition of their medicine

A boy is given ready-to-use therapeutic food

Pipes and progeny

How access to clean water prevents malnutrition in children.