A United Nations-supported survey has revealed alarming acute malnutrition rates among some 530,000 children under five and more than one million pregnant women in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
The Government survey was conducted last year in five provinces - Kasaï Occidental, Kasaï Oriental and Equateur (west), Maniema (east), and Katanga (south-east) - with the support of the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) and the UN World Food Programme (WFP).
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