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Malnutrition

UN Madrid Food Summit could miss critical target - 55 million young children at risk

If next week's Madrid Food Summit does not come up with a concrete implementation and funding plan focused on malnutrition, 55 million children under five will continue to face potential life-threatening malnutrition, according to ACF International and Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). Press Release - 23 Jan 2009
 
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Access to medicines

JAMA study shows food supplements can significantly reduce rates of deadliest form of malnutrition

The results of an eight-month trial showed that those children who had received the energy-dense fortified ready-to-use food had a 58 percent lower chance of suffering from severe acute malnutrition. Press Release - 20 Jan 2009
 
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Global

'Top Ten' humanitarian crises reveal growing insecurity, neglected health needs

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) releases 11th annual list Press Release - 22 Dec 2008
 
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Haiti

Pregnant women desperate for free emergency obstetric care in Haiti

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) medical teams are struggling to provide free quality emergency care to pregnant women and their babies in the capital city of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Press Release - 7 Nov 2008
 
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Niger

French section of MSF forced to leave Niger

On July 18, 2008, the Niger government terminated, suddenly and without explanation, the medical and nutritional activities of the French section of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in the Maradi region.
Press Release - 30 Oct 2008
 
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Colombia

MSF asks Colombian government and health care providers to guarantee comprehensive health care to victims of sexual violence

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) requests that health care providers be better prepared to provide comprehensive health care attention to victims of sexual violence and the Colombian government to clarify the existing regulations that aim to assist sexual violence victims. Press Release - 9 Oct 2008
 
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Malnutrition

WHO experts raise antiquated nutrition standards

After a week-long meeting World Health Organisation (WHO) experts have just agreed that animal source food, such as dairy products, is the first and most effective choice to treat moderately malnourished children. Press Release - 6 Oct 2008
 
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Niger

MSF still blocked in Maradi, Niger, despite a new memorandum of understanding

Ten weeks after Médecins Sans Frontières's (MSF) authorization to treat malnutrition in the Maradi region was suspended, the French section of MSF is no longer providing any medical-nutritional treatment on site there and has taken a variety of steps in an effort to resume activities. Press Release - 1 Oct 2008
 
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Malnutrition

WHO experts meeting has potential to impact millions of malnourished children

A World Health Organisation (WHO) meeting to develop new recommendations for the treatment of malnutrition will have a far-reaching impact on the quality of food aid and nutrition programmes for infants and young children, according to the medical humanitarian organization Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). Press Release - 29 Sep 2008
 
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Brazil

Brazil rejects patent on an essential AIDS medicine

The Brazilian Patent Office has rejected a patent application by Gilead on the drug tenofovir disoproxil fumarate (TDF), in a move that could increase access to a key HIV/AIDS medicine across the developing world. Press Release - 3 Sep 2008
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