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  Scaling Up International Food Aid: Food Delivery Alone Cannot Solve the Malnutrition Crisis
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  Aid Groups Target "Silent" Malnutrition

Symposiums Resources

• Conference Summary
• Full Agenda

Press Releases

• WHO Experts Meeting Has Potential to Impact Millions of Malnourished Children
• Need to Fix Food Aid to Tackle the Crisis of Childhood Malnutrition

Videos

Symposium Day 1 - Introduction

Symposium Day 1 - Session 1

Symposium Day 1 - Session 2

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Talking to the Experts: Video Series

Dr. Jean-Hervé Bradol

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

Run Time: 2:28min

Source: MSF Access Campaign

Flora Sibanda-Mulder

Flora Sibanda-Mulder, Senior Advisor (Nutrition Security / Emergency) of UNICEF explains why UN agencies are supporting treatment of severe malnutrition within the community with ready-to-use food.

Run Time: 6:47min

Source: MSF Access Campaign

Professor Michael Golden

Professor Michael Golden of Aberdeen University (Department of Medicine and Therapeutics) explains why ready-to-use foods work.

Run Time: 6:54min

Source: MSF Access Campaign

CBS's 60 Minutes on Ready-to-use Foods

Anderson Cooper Reports on a Nutritional Breakthrough

The World Health Organization estimates there are 178 million children that are malnourished across the globe, and at any given moment, 20 million suffering from the most severe form of malnutrition. Malnutrition contributes to between 3.5 and 5 million annual deaths of children under 5 years of age.

Doctors Without Borders/Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) estimates that only 3 percent of the 20 million children suffering from severe acute malnutrition receive the lifesaving treatment they need. MSF treated more than 150,000 children in 2006 and 2007 in 22 countries with nutrient-rich therapeutic and supplementary food.

Additional 60 Minutes footage:

Treating Malnourished Children in Northern Burkina Faso

In response to chronically high rates of malnutrition in the Northern region of Burkina Faso, MSF launched nutrition programs there in September 2007, in the areas of Titao and Yako. As of June 2008, MSF had treated a total of 13,600 children under five years of age, and 90 percent of them had recovered. Here, MSF staff and parents of malnourished children speak describe the program.

Preventing Malnutrition in Niger

In 2006, half of the children aged six months to three years in the Guidan Roumdji district of Maradi, Niger, suffered from acute malnutrition. In 2007, Doctors Without Borders/ Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) provided nutritional supplements to more than 60,000 vulnerable children during the seasonal "hunger gap"—the roughly five- to six-month period between harvests when food stocks are typically leaner.

Video Press Release - Malnutrition

Footage of the MSF nutrition prorgramme in Maradi, Niger: treating and preventing malnutrition with ready-to-use food products.