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Shortly after the country approved its three-year national multi-sectoral nutrition plan – allocating $30 million to fight child malnutrition and foster healthy dietary practices – Pakistani nutrition stakeholders gathered to celebrate the successes of 2023 and set goals for the new year. Nutrition progress and plans The COVID-19 pandemic continues to have lasting impacts on nutrition, as highlighted in the 2023 Global Nutrition Report. According to the latest data, Pakistan is on course to meet its exclusive breastfeeding target - with nearly half of infants being fed nothing but breastmilk. The country has also gotten closer to achieving its stunting goals, but 37.6 percent of children under 5 years of age are still affected – much higher than the average for the Asia region (21.8 percent).. Meanwhile, Pakistan has stagnated in its efforts to reduce anaemia among women of reproductive age, with 41.3 per cent of women aged 15 to 49 years affected, according to the Global Nutr

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