{"id":19380,"date":"2026-08-09T16:30:50","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T16:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/08\/09\/unicef-life-saving-treatment-severe-malnutrition-afghanistan\/"},"modified":"2026-08-09T16:30:50","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T16:30:50","slug":"unicef-life-saving-treatment-severe-malnutrition-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/08\/09\/unicef-life-saving-treatment-severe-malnutrition-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"UNICEF Provides Life-Saving Treatment for Severely Malnourished Children in Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The United Nations Children&#8217;s Fund (UNICEF) has announced the implementation of specialized treatment programs for children suffering from severe acute malnutrition in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, August 9, UNICEF stated on its X (formerly Twitter) page that these services, supported by the European Union in Afghanistan, include therapeutic feeding for children in need.<\/p>\n<p>According to UNICEF, the goal of these programs is to improve the health status of children and prevent the deadly consequences of malnutrition.<\/p>\n<p>UNICEF had earlier warned that 3.7 million children under five years old in Afghanistan are at risk of increasing malnutrition due to food insecurity and inadequate nutrition, a figure that reflects the widespread nutritional crisis among the country&#8217;s children.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UNICEF launches life-saving treatment programs for severely malnourished children in Afghanistan, backed by EU support to combat child malnutrition crisis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19379,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","category-important-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19380\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}