MSF's Suerie Moon spoke in front of a US Senate Committee on promoting new treatments & cures for neglected diseases read more
NEW: The 13th Edition of Untangling the Web of Antiretroviral Price Reductions is now available download it here
VIDEO: MSF's community approach to treating malnutrition in Niger watch it here
WHO's work on the financing of medical research and development is given a fresh start read more
MSF Letter to GFATM on concerns over scale-up of AIDS treatment in light of Board of Directors Meeting read more
New European Parliament Working Group on Innovation & Access launches with support of Access Campaign read more
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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.
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Dr. Marie-Pierre Allié of MSF explains the current state of the response to Niger's malnutrition crisis, with rates of childhood malnutrition exceeding the 15% emergency threshold in some areas. MSF expects to treat 150,000 children this year. Read more |
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In Magaria, a town in Niger, the hospital's intensive therapeutic feeding centre has 240 children are hospitalised there. MSF is working closely with the community to prevent the disastrous consequences of malnutrition in young children. Read about MSF's community approach to treating malnutrition |
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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. |
The Campaign
To sign the petition calling for improved food aid and watch the seven-part mini documentary series, visit www.starvedforattention.org |
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"Here we see dozens of mothers who lose their children to acute malnutrition every year." Read an interview with Dr Benoit Kayembe, the medical coordinator for a therapeutic feeding centre that MSF has set up in response to a nutritional crisis in Chad. read more |
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Learn about Natacha, a mother in Burkina Faso, struggling for her children's survival during the hunger gap season. She explains the difficulties she faces trying to feed her three children and why she cannot buy the foods that she knows are good for them. |
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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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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MSF has written to Nutriset, a leading ready-to-use foods manufacturer, to get the company to offer the widest possible licensing agreements of its products to other prospective producers to allow for greater scale-up of treatment |
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Malnutrition Hotspots Around the World Malnutrition is the underlying cause of death for between three and five million children globally under five every year. |
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"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 |
