Images: A richer India with more underweight children than Sub-Saharan Africa

[caption id=“attachment_216797” align=“alignleft” width=“940” caption=“Severely malnourished two-year-old girl Rajni is weighed by health workers at the Nutritional Rehabilitation Centre of Shivpuri district in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh. Reuters”] [/caption] [caption id=“attachment_216804” align=“alignleft” width=“940” caption=“A hospital staff member shows pictures of malnourished children who were cured in a government hospital in Shahbad village in Baran district in the northwestern state of Rajasthan. Reuters”] [/caption] [caption id=“attachment_216805” align=“alignleft” width=“940” caption=“Naushad, 18-months-old and suffering from severe malnutrition, lies on his mother’s lap inside their residence in Kalonda village near Sikandrabad district in the northern Indian start of Uttar Pradesh. Reuters”] [/caption] [caption id=“attachment_216809” align=“alignleft” width=“940” caption=“Four-month-old Vishakha, who weighs 2.3 kg (5 lbs) and suffers from severe malnutrition, rests on a bed at the Nutritional Rehabilitation Centre of Shivpuri district in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh. Reuters”] [/caption] [caption id=“attachment_216812” align=“alignleft” width=“940” caption=“A woman holds her one-year-old granddaughter Sakshi, who weighs 3.8 kg (8 lbs) and suffers from severe malnutrition, at the Nutritional Rehabilitation Centre of Shivpuri district Madhya Pradesh. Reuters”] [/caption] [caption id=“attachment_216813” align=“alignleft” width=“940” caption=“Four-month-old Vishakha, who weighs 2.3 kg (5 lbs) and suffers from severe malnutrition, has her picture taken as she lies on a bed at the Nutritional Rehabilitation Centre of Shivpuri in Madhya Pradesh. Reuters”] [/caption]

Images: A richer India with more underweight children than Sub-Saharan Africa

Almost as shocking as India’s high prevalence of child malnutrition is the country’s failure to reduce it, despite the economy tripling between 1990 and 2005.

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