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Infant and young child nutrition

A child eats RUTF from a sachet provided by UNICEF at a health facility in Yemen.

New Codex paves the way for innovation for RUTF

The guidelines could enable the development of new versions of this product that helps millions of children under 5 suffering from severe wasting each year.

Vitamin A price data

Explore information about prices awarded by UNICEF for vitamin A.

Vitamin A price data (PDF, 224,75 KB)

Multiple micronutrient powder price data

Explore information about prices awarded by UNICEF for multiple micronutrient powder

Multiple micronutrient powder price data (PDF, 231,87 KB)

Therapeutic milk price data

Information about prices awarded for therapeutic milk.

Therapeutic milk price data (PDF, 55,00 KB)

Jesús Gonzalez, 1, looks at the camera while he eats a ready-to-use therapeutic food (RUFT) during a nutrition screening day in Ciudad Bendita neighborhood, Zulia, Venezuela.

RUTF Supply Alert June 2022 and outlooks

A Supply Alert on RUTF price increase and market updates on global supply, demand, increased supplier diversity and UNICEF’s procurement approach.

Alert June 2022 (PDF, 145,45 KB)

2021 (PDF, 757,39 KB)

2019 (PDF, 3,20 MB)

2017 (PDF, 339,76 KB)

2014 (PDF, 324,81 KB)

2013 (PDF, 254,74 KB)

A UNICEF worker carries a carton of ready-to-use therapeutic food on his head.

Self-financing is crucial for the prevention of malnutrition

The Nutrition Match Fund promotes self-financing sustainability of nutrition supplies.

A child is given ready-to-use therapeutic food.

The lifesaving peanut paste

How a peanut-based paste is saving millions of children’s lives.

The red area of the MUAC band means that a child is wasting, yellow means in danger and green that the child is healthy.

A simple tool to detect severe malnutrition: the MUAC tape

UNICEF uses a simple yet innovative bands to detect severe malnutrition and save children’s lives.

Somalia. A child is held by his mother as he feeds on a sachet of ready-to-use therapeutic food.

World a ‘virtual tinderbox’ for catastrophic levels of severe malnutrition in children

Soaring food prices driven by the war in Ukraine and pandemic-fuelled budget cuts set to drive up both need for, and cost of life-saving therapeutic food treatment, the latter by up to 16 per cent.

A baby girl in her mother lap is having a ready-to-use therapeutic food (RUTF)

Saving lives with RUTF (ready-to-use therapeutic food)

UNICEF has been procuring almost 80 per cent of the world’s RUTF, a life-saving supply that treats severe wasting in children under 5 years old.