Peruvian President Ollanta Humala on Monday said the country?s central government and regional governments would provide $1.03 million to a fund aimed at reducing child malnutrition, Andean Air Mail & Peruvian Times reports. ?Humala said the government aims to lower the [child malnutrition] rate to 10 percent by 2016, from 23 percent in 2010,? according to the news service (8/28). ?These funds, he said, will be used for the comprehensive care of children and pregnant or breastfeeding women, the provision of vaccines, social programs, among others,? Bernama/NNN/Andina write. According to the news services, ?The announcement was made during the signing of the National Commitment to the Coordinated Fight Against Child Malnutrition, which Humala described as a ?concrete measure which must bring together all regional governments.?? He said, ?What we want to do is eradicate malnutrition. As a government, we are going to fight as hard as we can to eradicate it,? the news services report (8/29).
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