Scaling up treatment of severe acute malnutrition (2005) In 2005, a year of exceptional food insecurity in Niger, MSF treated over 60,000 severely malnourished children using therapeutic ready-to-use food. 38,000 severely malnourished children were treated in Maradi alone, with a cure rate above 90...
Bangkok/Paris, 31 October 2007 - The international medical humanitarian organization Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) today called on the Thai government to halt all forced repatriation proceedings against the 7,500 ethnic Hmong refugees from Laos who are currently confined to a camp in northern...
Action Contre la Faim, Concern and Valid International have been leading forces behind piloting RUF. Their contributions have been invaluable. 1994: First use of therapeutic milk Action Contre la Faim (ACF) pioneers the use of the milk formula F100 for the treatment of severe acute malnutrition...
Malnutrition is often lost in discussions around the subject of hunger, especially in the context of the discourse to "end world hunger," or to "feed the world." These blurred definitions help perpetuate the inadequate response to malnutrition. It is crucial to distinguish between malnutrition and...
Despite an overall decrease in the intensity and recurrence of conflicts in the district of Ituri in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), civilian populations there are still subjected to high levels of violence. Based upon four years of medical work in the region, Médecins Sans Frontières (...
Yesterday afternoon (9 October), the medical humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) had to evacuate a team of 16 aid workers from Muhajariya in South Darfur following an intensive attack on the town. Shooting was first heard in Muhajariya at the morning of 8 October. By 1 pm it...
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) Hong Kong today offers its congratulations to Dr. Albert Ko Wing Yin, who has just been awarded as one of the Top Outstanding Young Persons 2007 by the Junior Chamber International Hong Kong. Dr. Ko was the first engineer in Hong Kong who joined MSF as field volunteer...
My first journey to Africa was on 8th May, the plane landed safely in Nairobi international airport after 10 hours flight from Brussels. The next morning, I took another flight to Juba, the capital in South Sudan.
A week after two powerful earthquakes hit the Indonesian Island of Sumatra, relief aid is still not properly reaching the rural populations affected, says humanitarian organisation, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). After assessing the needs in the cities of Padang in West Sumatra and Bengkulu,...
