<center><b>Webinar on</b></center>
            <center><b>Severe Acute Malnutrition </b></center>
           <center><b>August 12, 2021 | 3 PM onwards</b></center>  
            <p style="text-align:justify"><b>Dear Sir/Madam,</b></p>
            <p style="text-align:justify">Malnutrition continues to be one of India's major problems and is a leading risk factor of death in
            children younger than 5 years accounting for 68.2% deaths, according to the Global Nutrition Report,
            2020. UNICEF predicts 3 lakhs children may die in India over the next six months due to reductions in
            routine health service coverage levels and an increase in child wasting, based on a recent report in
            Lancet research.</p>
            <p style="text-align:justify">Malnutrition was still an epidemic in India, particularly for children, even before the pandemic struck.
            Covid-19 presents a danger of further slowing down decades of progress made in the area of decreasing
            malnutrition. An already poor health system is weakened by the burden of the pandemic. Disrupted
            routine public health program, food stocks struggle, loss of revenues has had adverse effects on the
            health of children and their already precarious nutritional state.</p>
            <p style="text-align:justify">In reducing the risk of diseases, nutrition plays a key role. The lack of good nutrition or lowmicronutrient diet results in malnutrition that is preventing child growth, brain and physical
            development. Several government initiatives such as the <b>Acute Malnutrition Community Management,
            POSHAN Abhiyan</b> have helped to boost child nutritional status in India by offering a low cost of staples
            in the PDS and mid-day meal services. </p>
            <p style="text-align:justify">In light of the above, ASSOCHAM is organizing a <b>Webinar to address Severe Acute Malnutrition on
            August 12, 2021.</b></p>
            <p style="text-align:justify">The webinar will be aimed at creating nutrition awareness- educating the masses on the importance of
            basic nutrition and how it will help sustain good health, carrying out nutrition campaign to assess the
            nutritional status of the children and understanding proper nutrition interventions for SAM and MAM 
            children. It will also provide a platform for the industry and government to come together and discuss
            the current status of SAM in the country and ways to overcome it.</p>
            <p style="text-align:justify"><b>❖ An e-certificate will be provided to all the attendees after completion of the event</b></p>