WHO issues new guidance for treating children with severe acute malnutrition. The World Health Organization will release new treatment guidelines for the almost 20 million children under-five worldwide who have severe acute malnutrition. The new guidelines supersede those issued by WHO in 1999.[ ] Francesco Branca, Director, Nutrition for Health and Development, WHO. Nigel Campbell Rollins, Scientist, Department of Mother, Newborn, Child & Adolescent Health, WHO.