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<p>Malnutrition is the underlying cause of 45% of all child mortality and so effective
prevention and treatment of malnutrition is critical for ending preventable deaths
– a priority for the UK government as announced recently.</p><p> </p><p>Since 2015
DFID has reached 60.3 million women, adolescent girls and children with nutrition-related
services, including in fragile and conflict affected states such as Somalia, Myanmar,
and Yemen, and among refugee populations in Uganda and Bangladesh.</p><p> </p><p>This
includes supporting life-saving treatment for children with acute malnutrition, targeted
nutrition support for pregnant and breastfeeding women and investments to monitor
the severity of malnutrition to enable earlier action to prevent people dying of this
preventable condition.</p>
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