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11 month old malnutritioned girl Shilpi plays with toys as she sits on a bed at the nutritional rehabilitation centre in the pediatric ward at Maharani Laxmibai Medical College in Jhansi. The Indian government spends $1.4 billion a year on programs that include weighing newborn babies, counseling mothers on healthy eating and supplementing meals, but none of this seems to be yielding results.
Panos Pictures /Felix Features 22 Jul 2010