Posts in malnutrition

A Month in Focus - April 2012

11.04.2012

This month's webclip takes us on a short tour of MSF activities

Inside Somalia: MSF Malnutrition Ward is "Beyond Full"

28.07.2011

The effects of ongoing drought in the Horn of Africa region have intensified the situation in Somalia, already precarious due to 20 years of...

"I haven't seen our home region for over nine months"

As more than 2,000 Somalis cross the borders of their country into Kenya and Ethiopia every day in search of assistance, in Somalia itself unprecedented numbers of people are on the move in a de

"It’s only lunchtime and we’ve already admitted 151 children today.”

Dr Hussein Sheikh Qassim works in the Médecins Sans Frontières hospital in Marere, southern Somalia. He spoke to us by phone at 1pm on 15 July 2011.

South Sudan: Malnutrition threatens refugees

08.07.2011

Kenya: BBC Report - The Biggest Refugee Camp in the World is Full

07.07.2011

This video clip  is from yesterday's (6th July 2011) BBC One lunchtime news.

"Over the past weeks, I've seen hundreds of malnourished children"

My name is Osman* and I work for MSF as the nutritional supervisor in Marere, a village of 6,000 people in south central Somalia.

A Somali child suffering from malnutrition receives treatment at MSF clinic

Somalia Appeal

08.06.2011

Thank you to everyone who has supported our Somalia Appeal to date.  Even for the long-suffering Somali...

 

Mother and Child Health in Abyei

06.01.2011

In Abyei, women and children pay the heaviest price of the lack of healthcare.

 

Sudan: A people way too used to suffering

05.01.2011

Six years after the Sudanese civil war ended, a weak health system simply cannot cope with constant emergencies.

Our Medical Work

18.10.2010

As a medical organisation we constantly strive to provide the most effective healthcare possible for our patients.

 

Central African Republic

30.09.2010

The Central African Republic
has suffered armed conflict between rebel groups and the government for the past five years. People face enormous...

CAR 2011 © Sarah Elliott/MSF

Burundi

29.09.2010

Although Burundi
has a policy of free healthcare for children and pregnant women, access to care
is limited, primarily because of a shortage of...

Burundi 2011 © Martina Bacigalupo

Sahel: Fate of 160,000 Malian refugees hanging in the balance

11.05.2012

Since late January, nearly
160,000 Malians have fled their country for camps in Burkina
Faso, Mauritania
and Niger.

Country Year © Author/MSF

Assisting the Somali population

This document gives an overview of MSF activities related to the humanitarian crisis in Somalia and neighbouring Kenya and Ethiopia, which have...

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Sahel Nutritional Crisis: MSF dual response

02.04.2012

The annual "hunger season" seems likely to be particularly serious in the north-west African countries of the Sahel region this year, and some...

Niger 2012 © Julie Remy

Chad: Twin Emergencies of Acute Malnutrition and Meningitis

28.03.2012

Severe acute malnutrition in parts of Chad’s Sahel belt has reached emergency levels and requires immediate life-saving intervention, according to...

Country Year © Author/MSF

Chad: Marking a historic milestone

20.03.2012

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has just
marked 30 years in Chad.

Chad 2012 © Sabina Gobet/MSF

Dadaab: Back to square one

MSF takes stock of the current humanitarian situation and operational challenges in Dadaab, Kenya, home to the world’s largest refugee camp with...

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MSF launches new report: "Dadaab: back to square one"

16.02.2012

MSF takes stock of the current
humanitarian situation and operational challenges in Dadaab, Kenya, home
to the world’s largest refugee camp with...

Refugees queue outside MSF's hospital at Dadaab camp. Kenya 2011 © Natasha Lewe

Somalia: Killings force closure of two medical centres in Mogadishu

19.01.2012

Following the tragic killings of our colleagues Philippe Havet and Dr.

President of MSF, Dr. Unni Karunakara treats a child in Mogadishu

Ideology without borders

30.11.2011

Irish Medical Times 30 November 2011 Forty years after the creation of MSF, Dr Rony Brauman, President of MSF from 1982 to 1994, looks back at its...

Ethiopia: Surge in number of Somali refugees demands increased aid

02.11.2011

Unless the capacity to deliver aid is rapidly increased, there will be significant problems in meeting the needs of Somalis fleeing to Ethiopia,...

Ethiopia 2011 © Lali Cambra/MSF

World Food Day: Food Aid Fails Malnourished Children

13.10.2011

Despite some recent gains in the fight
against childhood malnutrition, the global food aid system largely continues to
provide substandard foods...

Malnutrition: mother and child © Franco Pagetti/VII

Somalia: Fighting Measles

30.09.2011

Measles. It starts with a fever, runny nose and a cough. Then a rash. For children who are not immunised this often spells disaster. 

Country Year © Author/MSF

Yemen: MSF suspends medical assistance in Saada governate

29.09.2011

Humanitarian medical organisation Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF) announced today that its emergency activities in Saada...

Mothers and children in emergency ward of a hospital in Yemen

Somalia: no time to waste in Mogadishu

23.08.2011

A food crisis in Somalia is affecting millions. Children are
dying, families are fleeing to refugee camps and pressure is mounting –
even...

Somalia 2011 © Feisal Omar

From one desert to another: MSF deeply concerned by the current relocation of refugees to Ifo 3 camp in Dadaab

27.07.2011

MSF calls on the Government of Kenya and UNHCR to relocate refugees to the better Ifo 2 camp, as agreed 12 days ago.  

Kenya 2011 © Brendan Bannon

Somalia: MSF demands end to delays and restrictions

25.07.2011

In light of the worsening nutritional crisis in Somalia, the international medical aid organisation Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors...

Photo of a mother and baby at Marere hospital, Somalia

Somalia Appeal: Photos from Marere hospital, southern Somalia

21.07.2011

In the town of Marere, in southern Somalia, there has been a sharp increase in the number of malnourished children arriving at the Médecins Sans...

The busy paediatric ward of the MSF hospital in Marere, southern Somalia

Somalia Appeal: RTE Drivetime interview with MSF Operational Manager

19.07.2011

18th July 2011: With the latest update on the humanitarian crisis in East Africa, MSF's Operational Manager Joe Belliveau reports that inside...

A one-year old Somali girl is given emergency treatment at an MSF hospital in Ke

A death sentence that changes nothing

19.07.2011

Irish Times July 5, 2011A diagnosis of HIV is just more bad news for a widow, writes Dr.
John Morris.

East Africa: Humanitarian Crisis as the world's biggest refugee camp is full

15.07.2011

Waves of people continue to arrive every day at the sprawling Dadaab
refugee camp in eastern Kenya.  Médecins Sans Frontières MSF (...

A malnourished infant lies on a bed at MSF's hospital in Dadaab camp

Somalia Appeal: RTE Morning Ireland interview with MSF Operational Manager

11.07.2011

MSF's Operational Manager for Somalia and Kenya, Joe Belliveau, was interviewed today (Monday 11th July 2011) on Morning Ireland.  He talks...

Joe Belliveau, MSF Operational Manager

Somalia: MSF seeks to expand relief efforts in Al-Shabaab territory

08.07.2011

The announcement by one of the main armed factions in Somalia, Al Shabaab, that foreign relief organisations would be welcomed in territories...

Country Year © Author/MSF

Somali Refugees in Kenya: On the edge of survival

07.07.2011

MSF Photostory: The three refugee camps run by the office of the United Nations High Commissoner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Dadaab, Kenya,...

Country Year © Author/MSF

Security measures are tough but worth it

10.05.2011

Irish Times 10 May 2011 IN THE FIELD: The work is tiring and stressful but very rewarding, writes
Dr John Morris

MSF calls on African governments to switch medications and save lives

Two hundred thousand lives a year could be saved by using more effective malaria drugs.

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Nobody died today, and that in itself is a reward

22.03.2011

Irish Times 22 March 2011 IN THE FIELD: The first in a series of dispatches from Chad where medical intervention is achieving some remarkable...

Pakistan: When the water came

07.02.2011

It has been six months since devastating floods swept through Pakistan in late July 2010, inundating large swathes of the country and causing...

Country Year © Author/MSF

Castlepollard architect helps build better future for Africa

21.01.2011

This article was published in the Westmeath Examiner on 15th January 2011.  For Castepollard architect John Smyth,...

Southern Sudan: A race against time to save lives

06.01.2011

As Sudan heads towards
an independence referendum this Sunday, the southern region it is
battling to
contain its biggest kala azar outbreak in...

Southern Sudan 2010 © Cédric Gerbehaye / Magnum Foundation Emergency Fund / VU

Aid Workers Abroad

29.12.2010

In the week before Christmas, Pat Kenny interviewed three of MSF's Irish doctors on his RTE show.  He asked them to describe their project...

Starved for Attention - 195 million children suffer from malnutrition

14.10.2010

“Foods we would never give our own children are being sent overseas as food aid to the most vulnerable children in malnutrition hotspots in sub-...

Country Year © Author/MSF

Frontline Podcast 55

17.08.2010

Sally MacMillan reports that food insecurity is particularly severe in areas of the Sahel region this year; MSF is conducting emergency nutrition...

Malnutrition in Sudan 2010 © Marco Baroncini Corbis Sudan MSF

Seeing the Children Spurs Me On

17.08.2010

Niamh Ryan talks to Womans' Way about the good and the bad days working in Ethiopia. This article appeared in Woman's Way on 16.08.10, written by...