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Interview on MSF's study on how best to distribute supplementary food to prevent malnutrition
In western Chad, MSF is conducting a study on how best to organise the distribution of supplementary food to prevent malnutrition rates from soaring. It is a huge task. Since February, a team of some...
Last updated 10 April 2012
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Chad: villages organise themselves against malnutrition
Chad 2012 © Simon Petite MSF has been present in the Hadjer Lamis region in the west of Chad since 2010, and is now bracing itself for the next peak of malnutrition. Mahamad Adam stands proudly...
Last updated 10 April 2012
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MSF in Somalia: Gearing up in Galgaduud
In large parts of south and central Somalia, where malnutrition rates are high, ongoing conflict makes it difficult for international organizations like MSF to operate at full capacity. Where we can...
Last updated 1 September 2011
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Responding In the Horn of Africa
UPDATES July 21, 2011 In Dadaab, Kenya, MSF is currently treating 2,402 children in its ambulatory therapeutic feeding program and 130 children in its inpatient therapeutic feeding center. An additional...
Last updated 18 July 2011
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Sudan: 3,000 Malnourished Children Treated in Al-Gedaref in Seven Weeks
The food crisis in the Sahel region of Africa has caused widespread malnutrition, particularly among children. In two areas of Al-Gedaref state, in eastern Sudan, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans...
Last updated 16 September 2010
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Niger between two seasons of hunger
Despite the large-scale response to the nutritional crisis from Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) and many other organisations, tens of thousands of children suffered from malnutrition...
Last updated 4 February 2011
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Niger: Going Beyond the Crisis, an interview with Dr. Marie-Pierre Allié
Niger 2005 © William Martin/MSF Dr. Marie-Pierre Allié, president of Médecins Sans Frontières, returned recently from a trip to Niger. With another nutritional emergency underway, new preventive...
Last updated 2 August 2010
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Niger: Taking a Community Approach to Malnutrition
“Everyone must know that treatment is free” This visit is important. The team must determine if any children in the village are malnourished. To do this we will go to the health post where, we...
Last updated 16 June 2010
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Interview with Dr. Benoit Kayembe in Chad on Malnutrition
Chad 2011 © Natacha Buhler/MSF “Here we see dozens of mothers who lose their children to acute malnutrition every year” -- Dr. Benoit Kayembe, MSF medical coordinator in Chad As the Hadjer...
Last updated 14 June 2010
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Alexis' Story: Battling Endemic Malnutrition in Burkina Faso
At six months old, Alexis was malnourished. His mother, Natacha, lives alone with her three children in Bowe, a small farming village in northern Burkina Faso. She grows millet but her small field provides...
Last updated 1 January 1970
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