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Without access to nutrient rich diets, 9 children will still die every minute of causes related to malnutrition. MSF calls for food aid reform to give children the nutrition they need to grow and be healthy.
MSF Letter to Nutriset
"The need for humanitarian nutritional products is vast. These products will need to be of good quality and at the lowest possible cost.....We ask you to urgently revise your intellectual property strategy."
In an open letter to Nutriset, a leading manufacturer of Ready to Use Foods (RUF), Dr Tido von Schoen-Angerer, Director of MSF’s Access to Essential Medicines Campaign, calls for the establishment of a more flexible licensing policy.
To read the entire letter, click here.
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Between 3.5 and 5 million children under the age of five die annually from malnutrition. MSF offers an analysis on how money has been spent globally on childhood malnutrition and makes recommendations for narrowing the malnutrition funding gap. For more information, download a copy of the report here. |
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Act sooner to avert childhood malnutrition New report from MSF Niger nutrition project shows food supplements handed out during the 'hunger gap' period which precedes harvest-time can save many more young lives Read more |
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Scale-up of ready-to-use foods (RUFs) dependent on stimulating increased production MSF has written to Nutriset, a leading RUF manufacturer, to get the company to offer the widest possible licensing agreements of its products to other prospective producers Read the letter |
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Malnutrition Hotspots round the world Malnutrition is the underlying cause of |
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Tragedies and small miracles in southern Ethiopia "She's eating better now, she's regained her appetite" Watch this film from an MSF project in Niger showing how ready-to-use foods (RUFs) have proved to be revolutionary in treating severely malnourished children |
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