Gaza: 1 in 4 young children and pregnant women malnourished amid Israel’s ongoing starvation policy
July 29, 2025Israeli authorities’ deliberate use of starvation as a weapon in Gaza has reached unprecedented levels, with patients and healthcare workers themselves now fighting to survive, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) warns.MSF staff are receiving an increasing number of malnourished patients at...
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Malnutrition crisis in northern Nigeria: mobilization is urgently needed to avoid further deaths
July 25, 2025Abuja 25th July 2025- Northern Nigeria is currently facing an alarming malnutrition crisis. In Katsina State for instance, where Doctors Without Borders/ Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has been present since 2021, the teams are seeing an ever-increasing number of malnourished...
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Gaza: Acute malnutrition reaches all-time high in two MSF facilities
July 14, 2025Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams are witnessing a sharp and unprecedented rise in acute malnutrition among people in Gaza, Palestine. In Al-Mawasi clinic, in southern Gaza, and in the MSF Gaza City clinic in the north, we are seeing the...
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Yemen: Growing challenge with malnutrition
March 21, 2025Over 35,000 malnourished children treated in MSF-supported facilities from 2022 to 2024 Aisha sits by a bed in Al Salam hospital in Khamir district of Amran governorate, Yemen. She has come to seek lifesaving care for her five-month-old daughter, Zahra’a....
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Cameroon: Local women leaders essential in tackling malnutrition and infant mortality
March 10, 2025Since 2023, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has been working with influential local women in Cameroon's Far North region, where insecurity and local practices can severely affect access to critical healthcare. Through strategies that see them as key intermediaries, women known...
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Sudan: MSF renews call for immediate action to prevent death and starvation
February 20, 2025International donors, the UN, Sudan’s warring parties and their allies must act now to prevent even more avoidable deaths from malnutrition in Sudan, as the already catastrophic situation is expected to worsen this year, according to Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF).Half...
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Sudan: Supply blockade forces MSF to stop care for 5,000 malnourished children in North Darfur
October 10, 2024Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has been forced to stop outpatient treatment for 5,000 children with acute malnutrition in Zamzam displacement camp in North Darfur, Sudan, because the warring parties have blocked deliveries of food, medicines and other essential...
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Nigeria: One out of every four children in Shinkafi and Zurmi is malnourished
September 24, 2024MSF is urging immediate action after screening results reveal a catastrophic malnutrition crisis across Northwest Nigeria Abuja, 9 September 2024: One out of every four children under the age of five is malnourished in the Shinkafi and Zurmi areas of...
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Nigeria: One out of every four children in Shinkafi and Zurmi is malnourished
September 10, 2024Abuja, 9 September 2024: One out of every four children under the age of five is malnourished in the Shinkafi and Zurmi areas of Nigeria’s Zamfara state, according to a mass screening conducted in June by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)...
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Nigeria: Community-based solutions used for malnutrition response in Bauchi
August 10, 2024In Bauchi state, like other states in northern Nigeria, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams are witnessing an unprecedent surge in malnutrition cases and are rapidly scaling up our medical response. As well as increasing bed capacity at the inpatient therapeutic...
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Record Admissions of Severely Malnourished Children Overwhelm MSF Medical Facilities in Northern Nigeria
June 5, 2024Abuja, 4 June 2024: In recent weeks, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) inpatient facilities in northern Nigeria have recorded an extraordinary increase in admissions of severely malnourished children with life-threatening complications, with two times more admissions than last year in some...
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South Sudan: How malnutrition is dangerously feeding the TB/HIV pandemic
May 30, 2024In South Sudan, over seven million people are expected to face acute food insecurity or worse between now and July. Among them, patients who are infected with tuberculosis and HIV are highly impacted since the intensity of the treatment is...
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