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Sudan: Supply blockade forces MSF to stop care for 5,000 malnourished children in North Darfur

Doctors 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

MSF 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

Abuja, 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

In 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

Abuja, 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

In 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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To eat or feed my child? A mother’s dilemma in Yemen

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) expresses profound concern over the alarming rise in malnutrition cases among mothers in Yemen over the past two years. The situation reflects the dire humanitarian crisis facing the country, exacerbated by protracted conflict, economic instability, and...

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Afghanistan: MSF’s new project aims to fill critical gaps in the provision of paediatric and neonatal care

“I really don’t know the pain she’s going through, but I am here with her hoping she gets better soon,” says Farida, the mother of nine-month-old Hadia.For two days, Hadia has refused to eat anything, even her favourite fruit, bananas....

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DRC: Violence by armed groups has exacerbated the nutritional situation in Masisi territory

Since the beginning of the year, an average of 800 children suffering from severe acute malnutrition have been admitted each month for treatment to hospitals in Mweso and Masisi, almost double that of the previous year. This alarming situation is...

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Pakistan: The heartbreaking link between maternal and child malnutrition

Last year, scorching heat waves broke records across South Asia, with temperatures surpassing 50° in March and April. The unusually violent monsoon that followed triggered floods that killed over 1.700 people in Pakistan and ravaged communities. After the devastating weather...

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Sudan: Fleeing conflict, hundreds of thousands face hardship and disease in overcrowded camps in White Nile State

26 July, 2023 - More than 140,000 people, mostly South Sudanese women and children fleeing from Khartoum, have newly arrived in White Nile state since conflict broke out in Sudan and are now facing huge unmet needs for food, shelter,...

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Brazil: MSF responds to indigenous health crisis in the Amazon

The vast area of the Amazon Basin has always presented a challenge when it comes to providing healthcare to the Indigenous people who live there. But in recent years, the complexity has increased, as an absence of measures to protect...

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