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Gaza: 1 in 4 young children and pregnant women malnourished amid Israel’s ongoing starvation policy

Israeli 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

Abuja 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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Yemen: Growing challenge with malnutrition

Over 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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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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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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Helping tackle malnutrition and malaria in Angola

Malnutrition 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

Addis 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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Madagascar: Struggling To Survive A Triple Crisis

In 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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“We see children dying on the way to our clinics”: MSF Country Representative in Nigeria

Dr. 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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National Nutrition Week 2019

What 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...

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