Press releases
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Chad faces twin emergencies of acute malnutrition and meningitis
Immediate response needed to save lives and prevent deeper health crisis, says MSF Berlin/N’Djamena, March 28, 2012: Severe acute malnutrition in parts of Chad’s Sahel belt has reached...
Last updated 28 March 2012
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Mauritania: Food insecurity threatens as thousands of Malian refugees gather in desert
MSF provides medical and nutritional assistance for refugees and local people MAURITANIA, 29 February 2012 – More than 28,000 Malian refugees have been forced to seek refuge in the border...
Last updated 1 March 2012
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G20 Leaders Should Bail Out Global Health With a Financial Transaction Tax
DRC 2011 © Gwenn Dubourthmieu Geneva, 31 October 2011 – The financial transaction tax (FTT), due to be discussed at this week’s G20 Summit in Cannes, could help...
Last updated 31 October 2011
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Food Aid System Continues to Fail Malnourished Children
While Young Victims of War and Famine Are Able to Access Latest Lifesaving, Nutritious Foods, Millions More Malnourished Children Still Receive Poor Quality Food Aid Kenya 2011 ©...
Last updated 12 October 2011
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Reforming Quality of Global Food Aid Critical to Fight Childhood Malnutrition
GENEVA, OCTOBER 12, 2010 -- The world’s top food aid donors, including the United States, Canada, Japan, and the European Union, continue to supply and finance nutritionally substandard foods...
Last updated 12 October 2010
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Niger: treatment and prevention to break the cycle of malnutrition
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) and its local partners have treated 77,000 severely malnourished children in Niger this year and are distributing food supplements to 143,000 young children....
Last updated 8 September 2010
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G8: Reform Food Aid System and Generate Sustained Funding Resources for Global Health to Reduce Childhood Malnutrition
TORONTO/GENEVA, JUNE 22, 2010 -- World leaders meeting at the G8 and G20 summits will not succeed in improving mother and child health in the developing world unless they fundamentally change how they...
Last updated 22 June 2010
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Nutrition crisis in Chad - MSF calls to accelerate and increase the deployment of nutritional assistance
Geneva, 14th June 2010 – The Sahelian belt of Chad is facing one of its worst nutrition crises in recent years. Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is calling for quicker and larger deployment...
Last updated 14 June 2010
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“Starved for Attention”: MSF Launches Global Campaign on Childhood Malnutrition
NEW YORK, 3 June 2010 – The international medical humanitarian organization Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) and the VII Photo agency today launched “Starved for Attention,”...
Last updated 3 June 2010
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"Top Ten" Humanitarian Crises: Aid Blocked and Diseases Neglected
NEW YORK, DECEMBER 21, 2009 — Civilians attacked, bombed, and cut off from aid in Pakistan, Somalia, Yemen, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan, and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), along with stagnant...
Last updated 21 December 2009
www.msfaccess.org/our-work/malnutrition/article/625
