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India’s Fight Against Malnutrition

Malnutrition remains one of the most important and persistent public health problems in India. It is estimated that undernutrition directly or indirectly contributed to more than 68% of under five deaths in the country. Its long-term effects of cognition impairment, lesser educational outcomes, lesser productivity in life and intergenerational poverty are a structural drag on…

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India’s children are getting better fed but some numbers still trouble us

The International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS), Mumbai, has released the fact sheets of the National Family Health Survey (NFHS) 2023–24, for the sixth round of India’s largest and most widely used health and demographic survey. The findings come nearly five years after NFHS-5 (2019–21), at a time when reducing child malnutrition remains a key…

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