The Lancet’s Series on Maternal and Child Undernutrition Executive Summary

Published on: 01/16/2008 22:19

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The problem of maternal and child undernutrition in developing countries

More than 3.5 million mothers and children under five die unnecessarily each year due to the underlying cause of undernutrition, and millions more are permanently disabled by the physical and mental effects of a poor dietary intake in the earliest months of life.