Helping tackle malnutrition and malaria in Angola
July 10, 2023Malnutrition and malaria are common in remote communities in Angola, especially during peaks of drought and heavy rain. Women and their children are most affected. For the last year, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has collaborated with local health...
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Ethiopia: MSF calls for immediate resumption of food distribution
July 7, 2023Addis Ababa, 06 July, 2023 – As malnutrition rates surge beyond emergency levels in many areas of Ethiopia, international medical organisation Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) calls for the immediate resumption of food distributions which were suspended across Ethiopia...
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Nigeria: MSF raises alarm over escalating malnutrition crisis in northwest
July 4, 2023Abuja, 03 July 2023 – A malnutrition crisis is escalating in northwest Nigeria, prompting international medical organisation Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) to reinforce its activities while warning that the current humanitarian response is insufficient to avert a potential...
Read moreNigeria: MSF raises alarm over escalating malnutrition crisis in the northwest
July 4, 2023Abuja, 03 July 2023 – A malnutrition crisis is escalating in northwest Nigeria, prompting international medical organisation Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) to reinforce its activities while warning that the current humanitarian response is insufficient to avert a potential...
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Vaccination campaign for Sudanese refugees in Koufroun, Chad
May 8, 2023Since the resumption of the conflict in Sudan, around 30,000 people have fled to Chad according to the UNHCR. Médecins Sans Frontières is carrying out a vaccination campaign to protect children against measles in temporary camps set up at the...
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Madagascar: Struggling To Survive A Triple Crisis
April 27, 2023In Madagascar, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams are witnessing an alarming rate of malnutrition in southeastern districts where families are dealing with a triple crisis of food insecurity, malaria, and extreme weather events. Between January and April over 1,200 children...
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Kenya: Record admissions at MSF hospital in Dagahaley, Dadaab, as humanitarian situation continues to deteriorate
January 24, 2023Hospital admissions of children suffering from severe malnutrition have spiked in Dagahaley, one of three refugee camps in the Dadaab refugee complex, amid worsening humanitarian conditions in the overcrowded camps, says Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). In 2022, MSF treated a...
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“We see children dying on the way to our clinics”: MSF Country Representative in Nigeria
December 7, 2022Dr. Simba Tirima, MSF Country Representative in Nigeria: The past few months have been incredibly difficult for the people of northwest Nigeria and our teams have seen unprecedented high numbers of malnourished children in the medical facilities where we work...
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SOMALIA: Malnutrition Crisis in Baidoa First-person testimony Dr Asma Aweis
November 18, 2022"We haven't had enough time between one disaster and another." Dr Asma Aweis Abdallah is the medical activity manager with Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) in Baidoa, Somalia. Here she describes the situation the team is responding to. The...
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Catastrophic malnutrition crisis in northwest Nigeria must be recognized
September 27, 2022Abuja (27 September 2022): As the malnutrition crisis in northwest Nigeria continues at catastrophic levels, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is calling for the humanitarian community to respond to the emergency needs of people in the region, and for northwest Nigeria...
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Out of sight: neglected malnutrition crisis threatens tens of thousands of children in northwest Nigeria
July 8, 2022A growing, yet largely ignored, malnutrition crisis is unfolding in northwest Nigeria, which threatens the lives of tens of thousands of children, the medical humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières /Doctors Without Borders (MSF) warned today. Since January, MSF teams, working...
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Thousands at severe risk due to malnutrition and deadly diseases in Twic County
July 4, 2022Sami Al-Subaihi is MSF’s emergency project coordinator in South Sudan. He shares his urgent concerns for more than 20,000 people who fled violent clashes and are now living in displacement camps. The lack of food and proper shelter, dismal water and sanitation...
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