what MSF is calling for

What MSF is calling for

  • Treatment of severe acute malnutrition with therapeutic RUF must be scaled up. Countries must develop protocols that support community-based management of severe acute malnutrition. Countries must adopt and implement the new WHO Growth Standards.
  • Funding schemes must be developed to support Ministries of Health to integrate treatment of severe acute malnutrition into their protocols and to purchase therapeutic RUF at a price that will not break budgets.
  • Competition needs to be fostered for existing producers of therapeutic RUF and companies should be encouraged to develop new therapeutic products.
  • Donors need to review the quality of food aid addressed towards rapidly growing young children to ensure that distributions include foods that meet their specific nutritional needs.
  • Academic and operational research must increase in order to drive the development of new complementary and supplementary foods and programme strategies aimed at meeting nutritional needs of young children, women of reproductive age and people with tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS