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Substandard: Lack of expertise, poor manufacturing practices, or insufficient infrastructure.

Falsified: Products’ of criminals with a possibility of no active ingredients, incorrect ingredients, or toxins

Family Planning: Products or services that allow families to prevent pregnancy where possible

Malnutrition: It is the lack of proper nutrition. Malnutrition is often caused by not having enough to eat or not eating
enough of the proper foods one needs to get healthy nutrients in their bodies. 

Stunting / Wasting: Both are due to the prevention of growing and/or developing properly due to the lack of nutrition. However, stunting refers to chronic malnutrition meaning low height for their age while wasting refers to acute malnutrition meaning low weight for their height.
 


 

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