Improve the prevention and management of wasting in children

Wasting. The World Health Organization (WHO) commits to improving the prevention and treatment of wasting and nutritional oedema over the next five years, building off the Global Action Plan on Child Wasting : A framework for action to accelerate progress in preventing and managing child wasting (GAP) in collaboration with UNICEF and the partners of the GAP. a. By 2025, WHO will publish implementation and monitoring guides (jointly with UNICEF) based on the 2023 WHO Guideline on the prevention and management of infant and children with wasting and nutritional oedema under 5 years. b. Throughout the next five years, WHO, in collaboration with UNICEF, will commit to support countries, with focus on the 25 GAP frontrunner countries to develop and pass a policy on the evidence-informed recommendations reflected in the WHO Guideline. c. Throughout the next five years, WHO commits to support these countries to measure impact of the implementation of the activities together with UNICEF and the GAP partners.