Malnutrition

Food Aid Failing Children

As food aid is mobilised in response to the global food price crisis, MSF is warning that sending adult food to feed young children will not save them from the risk of malnutrition. MSF is urging donors to ensure their aid includes special food for young children. Read more 

Campaign director, Dr. Tido von Schoen-Angerer talks to the BBC's World Today programme about the impact of the current global food crisis on children under two and explains the special nutritional needs of this age group.

Talking to the Experts: Video series

Professor Michael Golden of Aberdeen University explains why ready-to-use foods work.

Click here to see Professor Michael Golden

Flora Sibanda-Mulder of UNICEF explains why UN agencies are supporting treatment of severe malnutrition within the community with ready-to-use food

Click here to see UNICEF's Flora Sibanda-Mulder

Dr. Jean-Hervé Bradol, President of MSF France says that treating malnutrition is as important as trying to prevent it.

Click here to see MSF's Jean-Hervé Bradol

  

MSF's Malnutrition Campaign

(c) Julie Damon

MSF’s malnutrition campaign is advocating for global scale-up of therapeutic ready-to-use food (RUF) for the most at risk children.  MSF is also highlighting the need for increased research and development into a range of nutritional products adapted to these children’s needs.

Why food is not enough

What are the nutritional needs of a growing child ?

What MSF is calling for

Stimulating the Debate on Malnutrition

(c) Michael Goldfarb

MSF took its malnutrition campaign to a meeting of key actors in the nutritional community held in Vietnam earlier this year. Click here to read more about MSF's activities at the Standing Committee on Nutrition

  

Understanding malnutrition

What is Malnutrition

MSF & Malnutrition

The Global Burden

Why Food is not Enough