Why Is It Urgent? First, children are dying from a preventable disease. Second, even if the child survives SAM, the child typically suffers for a lifetime because of the long term effects. The solution to Severe Acute Malnutrition (SAM) is not years away, it’s not unattainable, it’s not hopeless. On the contrary, the solution is here, it is achievable, and there is hope! Solution.htmlshapeimage_5_link_0

  1. 1.COMMUNITY-BASED MANAGEMENT OF

SEVERE ACUTE MALNUTRITION

A Joint Statement by the World Health Organization, the World Food Programme, the United Nations

System Standing Committee on Nutrition and the United Nations Children’s Fund, May 2007


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