By Stella MadzivanyikaSTAFF WRITERmadzivanyikas@dailynews.co.zw THE United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef) says over 2 400 children were admitted this year in various hospitals across the country for severe wasting treatment. Severe wasting, also known as severe acute malnutrition, is caused by a lack of nutritious food and repeated bouts of diseases, including diarrhoea, measles and malaria,…

Unicef is focusing on intensifying efforts to prevent all forms of malnutrition, in particular child wasting, through expanding the multi-sectoral care group network, and this has started in five of the 29 high-priority districts with funding from CERF and in partnership with World Vision.
