According to the BBC website, President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski's administration seeks to cut chronic child malnutrition to 6.4% by 2021.
"The National Plan against Anemia and Chronic Child Malnutrition 2017-2021 was launched in April to achieve that goal," it underlines.
On the other hand, Bill and Melinda Gates said: "Stunting is one of the most powerful, but most complex, measures in global health."
And "Peru proved that stunting is a solvable problem when leaders are committed to following the evidence," they said in the foundation's first annual report on remarkable progress against global poverty and disease.
The BBC article highlights that international organizations like UNICEF and the World Bank have also lauded the progress made by Peru, which in 2005 had one of the highest rates of chronic infant malnutrition in Latin America.
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