Closing the gap: towards a 2030 wasting target. A policy briefing by Generation Nutrition.
Author: Generation Nutrition
Year: 2014
Resource type: Report
Generation nutrition is a global campaign, calling on governments and the international community to take urgent action to prioritise the fight against acute malnutrition, and save the lives of millions of children under the age of five.
In this briefing, Generation Nutrition argue that the target for wasting should be to reduce the number of children under-five affected by acute malnutrition by at least half by 2030. such a target would build on the internationally-agreed 2025 world Health Assembly (wHA) wasting target, with a similar level of ambition for the additional five years of the post-2015 development framework. This should be the absolute minimum that member states agree to.
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