Abstract The 2023 WHO guideline on the prevention and management of wasting and nutritional oedema (acute malnutrition) in infants and children under 5 years has a broad scope aligned with WHO’s ...

Summary box The 2023 WHO guideline on wasting and nutritional oedema provides the first systematically developed evidence-informed set of recommendations and good practice statements for children 6–59 ...

Wasting describes a condition where a child is dangerously thin for their height, typically due to sudden and severe weight loss. It greatly raises the risk of death but can be effectively treated. In ...