About 19 million children under 5 around the world suffer from severe acute malnutrition[1] every year. This life-threatening condition kills 400,000 of them[2] – that’s one child every 10 seconds.
These numbers are staggering, especially because a lifesaving treatment has existed for nearly three decades: “ready-to-use therapeutic food[3].”
Nutriset, a French company[4], was founded by Michel Lescanne[5]. He was one of two...