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JUDY WOODRUFF (NewsHour): Infant mortality rates have fallen dramatically worldwide over the past 25 years. But, even as health officials celebrate that achievement, they also warn that those who survive malnutrition frequently face lifelong problems.
In the Americas, the situation is most dire in Guatemala, where roughly 50 percent of the children are so malnourished they’re stunted, physically and developmentally, for life.
Now, for the first time in decades, that country’s leaders have a coordinated program to bring those numbers down.
Hari Sreenivasan has our report, which was produced in collaboration with the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting.
HARI SREENIVASAN (NewsHour): Each day around mid-afternoon, Maria Chamile begins a chore she knows may harm her children.
With no meat and few vegetables, she starts cooking dinner with the ingredients available to her. Usually, that’s just beans. It’s a staple meal here in the predominantly Mayan highlands of Guatemala, one containing so few of the vitamins and minerals children need to grow properly that roughly eight in 10 of them are stunted in some communities.
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