MSF raises alert over alarming indications of large-scale nutritional crisis in Ethiopia’s Afar region
June 10, 2022The medical humanitarian organization Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is witnessing alarming indications of a deadly and escalating nutritional crisis in Ethiopia’s Afar region, requiring an urgent scale-up of the humanitarian response. In Afar, hundreds of thousands of people have fled...
Read moreMalnutrition remains high as drought continues in Kenya
May 21, 2022In Northeast Kenya, an ongoing drought is raging on following three consecutive seasons of failed rains, making an already dire food insecurity situation worse. Marsabit County is now reporting high or above-usual rates of acute malnutrition. If medical and humanitarian assistance provided...
Read moreAfghanistan: Measles poses deadly risk for malnourished children in Afghanistan
March 9, 2022Zainab didn’t sleep well last night. The lights and the incessant beeping of the machines in the intensive care unit would keep anyone awake. But mainly she couldn’t sleep because she was worried about her one-year-old son, Takberullah. He also...
Read moreInside Afghanistan’s child malnutrition crisis
January 9, 2022Dr Mohammed* works for Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) at Boost Hospital in Lashkar Gah, Afghanistan, where 400 severely malnourished children under five years of age are treated every month. Many of them are also suffering from worrying complications such as pneumonia,...
Read moreFood assistance urgently needed as nutrition crisis grips southern Madagascar
July 10, 2021People in southern Madagascar are experiencing an exceptionally acute food and nutrition crisis that is leaving thousands of children severely ill and pushing entire families into extreme poverty. Since March 2021, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) emergency teams have been setting up more and more...
Read moreFood and nutrition crisis in Madagascar
May 21, 2021Since the end of March, MSF teams have been responding to one of the worst food and nutrition crises ever experienced in southern Madagascar. Prior to deploying medical personnel, an exploratory team was sent to Amboasary district to conduct logistical...
Read moreYemen: Severe malnutrition on the rise among children in Abs, northern Yemen
February 23, 2021Opinion by Muriel Boursier, MSF head of mission in Yemen Hamdi is not yet two years old, but this is already his second time as a patient at the Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) Abs hospital, in northern Yemen....
Read moreNiger: Fifteen years treating malnutrition and malaria around the clock
November 25, 2019Every year, the combination of ‘hunger gap’ and rainy season triggers a spike in rates of malnutrition and malaria in southern Niger – particularly from July to October. Since the large-scale food crisis of 2005, the prevention and treatment of childhood diseases...
Read moreNational Nutrition Week 2019
September 1, 2019What is Severe Acute Malnutrition? Is obesity also a form of malnutrition? And where does India stand on the nutrition index? We take a closer look at these and other related issues, as India observes National Nutrition Week from 1st...
Read moreNational Nutrition Week: Frequently Asked Questions about Severe Acute Malnutrition (SAM)
August 30, 2019With 93 lakh children under the age of five affected by Severe Acute Malnutrition, India has the largest burden of severe malnutrition in the world. This National Nutrition Week (September 1-7, 2019) we’ll be addressing a few common queries about...
Read moreJharkhand: What motherhood taught me about malnutrition
February 17, 2019Name : Designation : Subashini is from Jharkhand, where she works with MSF as a Community Health Educator to improve local communities’ understanding of health and nutrition. But it was her own experience as a young mother with a malnourished...
Read moreJharkhand: Fighting malnutrition alongside local communities
April 29, 2018In Jharkhand, an Indian state known for its diverse tribal communities, the number of people that are malnourished is persistently higher than the national average. Since 2009, MSF has treated over 17,000 severely malnourished children in India using an innovative...
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