Weigh in: Malnourished girl in the scales before getting life saving readyto-use therapeutic food

A malnourished girl cries during the daily checkweighing at the Bangui pediatric complex in the Central African Republic, where infant mortality is the highest in the world. Two out of three children, or 1.5 million people, are in need of humanitarian assistance, according to a Unicef report from 2018.

Children are given fortified therapeutic milk until they are strong enough to move on to the next phase of treatment, which is the ready-to-use therapeutic food (RUTF)

Unicef has found RUTF to be the most effective tool for treating acute and severe acute malnutrition.