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Malnutrition

12 month old Mariam is given ready-to-use therapeutic food treatment in Burkina Faso.
Press release
23/06/2022
Global hunger crisis pushing one child into severe malnutrition every minute in 15 crisis-hit
Ahead of G7 summit, UNICEF appeals for US$1.2 billion to meet urgent needs of 8 million children at risk of death from severe wasting
Document
16/06/2022
Vitamin A price data
Explore information about prices awarded by UNICEF for vitamin A.

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Document
16/06/2022
Multiple micronutrient powder price data
Explore information about prices awarded by UNICEF for multiple micronutrient powder

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Document
16/06/2022
Therapeutic milk price data
Information about prices awarded for therapeutic milk.

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JesĂşs 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.
Report
02/06/2022
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.

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A UNICEF worker carries a carton of ready-to-use therapeutic food on his head.
Article
24/05/2022
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.
Video
20/05/2022
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.
Video
18/05/2022
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.
Press release
17/05/2022
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 boy sits on his mother's lap and receives a ready-to-use-therapeutic food
Article
06/04/2022
Treating life-threatening malnutrition in Papua New Guinea
RUTF (ready-to-use therapeutic food) has become a vital tool for UNICEF and partners in curbing child malnutrition among young children.