Child malnutrition in Nepal has reached ‘alarming’ levels since aid cuts, survey finds
by Kat Lay, Global health correspondent from World news | The Guardian on (#76JVG)
Fears hard-won gains in reducing child mortality over 20 years are at risk after end of USAID funding for nutrition programmes
Child malnutrition in Nepal has reached alarming" levels, according to the largest ever survey of under-fives in the country.
The new figures came just over a year after USAID, the former US flagship agency closed by the Trump administration in 2025, stopped funding work on child nutrition in Nepal.
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