GENEVA, Aug 4 (Reuters) - Child malnutrition in Afghanistan has reached critical levels and aid shortages are forcing health workers to turn away millions of children and mothers — six in seven of those in need —the U.N. World Food Programme said on Tuesday.Child wasting, the deadliest form of malnutrition,has reached critical levels in a third of Afghanistan's provinces, while the number of children being admitted to health centres is rising sharply, WFP's country director in Afghanistan, John Aylieff,told reporters in Geneva.

GENEVA, Aug 4 (Reuters) - Child malnutrition in Afghanistan has reached critical levels and aid shortages are forcing health workers to turn away millions of children and mothers…

Afghanistan’s dire hunger crisis now affects 14 million people including babies fed on little more than weak tea and bread by their despairing and dirt-poor parents.

Child malnutrition reaches critical levels in Afghanistan as aid is drastically cut. Many acutely malnourished children are being turned away without any assistance. Conflict…