New York, July 29 -- Moderate and severe malnutrition rates in children under that age of five have exceeded emergency thresholds in Quetta, the capital of the Baluchistan Province in Pakistan, according to a recent SMART+ nutrition analysis conducted by Action Against Hunger in collaboration with the Department of Health in Baluchistan. The prevalence of combined global acute malnutrition was 29.1%, and severe acute malnutrition was 8.1%, both alarmingly higher than their respective emergency thresholds of 15% and 2%.

"Severe acute malnutrition is potentially deadly for children, and it is heartbreaking because it's a treatable disease when it's undertaken soon enough," says Muhammad Aamir, Country Director for Action Against Hunger in ...