Afghanistan: Alarming increase in admissions of severely malnourished children in south
June 26, 2026MSF calls for urgent funding, resources to support critical needsKabul, Afghanistan, 25 June 2026 - Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors without Borders (MSF) has witnessed an alarming increase in the number of children suffering from severe acute malnutrition with medical complications requiring lifesaving treatment in its therapeutic feeding centres in southern Afghanistan. “Children are reaching us far too late in the process, and they often...
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Nigeria: Locally made nutrition supplement helps curb rising child malnutrition in Kebbi state and Northwest Nigeria
June 25, 2026Abuja, 24 June 2026 – Following a sharp increase in cases of severe acute malnutrition (SAM) among children in Kebbi State, north‑west Nigeria, between 2024 and 2025, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has launched a nutrition initiative based on the use of Tom Brown, a locally produced complete food product designed to...
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Palestine: Children are disproportionately affected by the deteriorated living conditions in Gaza
June 25, 2026In 2026 MSF teams have treated thousands of cases of respiratory infections, gastroenteritis and skin infections among children. My baby had severe diarrhea for days, but I could not find clean water or medicine. We were afraid of dehydration but had no...
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Somalia: Malnutrition admissions are overwhelming Baidoa Hospital
June 17, 2026MSF is calling for an immediate scale‑up of emergency response. Baidoa, 15 June 2026 – Malnutrition wards supported by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in Baidoa, in Somalia’s Southwest State, are facing a record surge of children and pregnant and lactating women arriving in critical condition. Between March and May, nearly 1,400 patients were admitted to the inpatient therapeutic feeding...
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Somalia: Malnutrition surges and services collapse as displaced families in Mudug run out of options
May 6, 2026Mudug region in Somalia, is hosting approximately 151,000 internally displaced people as drought-driven displacement continues across the region. Funding cuts have forced dozens of health and nutrition sites to close, water sources have dried up, and malnutrition admissions at MSF facilities surged...
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Madagascar: MSF raises alarm over worsening nutrition crisis among children in Ikongo district
March 12, 2026Antananarivo, 9 March 2026 – Following the recent launch of an appeal by the Malagasy government and the United Nations for international assistance in response to the worsening humanitarian situation in Madagascar, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is concerned about the...
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Chad: Malnutrition is a silent crisis
December 24, 2025While attention in Chad is focused mainly on the war in neighbouring Sudan and the refugee camps in the east, the country has been confronted to another crisis: malnutrition. There, 5.7 million people are facing malnutrition—including 3.6 million who are...
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Sudan: People facing extreme malnutrition in protracted crisis
November 12, 2025Port Sudan 11 November 2025- As starved people continue trying to flee atrocities committed by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in El Fasher, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams are providing urgent care to those who have reached the town of...
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Nigeria: Addressing mental health and malnutrition together
October 10, 2025Every year, millions of children around the world suffer from malnutrition—a crisis that is all too visible in their frail bodies and tired eyes. But what is often less visible, yet just as devastating, are the psychological wounds that malnutrition...
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Yemen: MSF hands over the mother and child hospital in Taiz Houban after a decade of lifesaving care
September 1, 2025Taiz Houban, Yemen- Since 2015, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has operated the mother and child hospital in Al-Houban, Taiz governorate — one of the few facilities providing free, high-quality healthcare in a region deeply affected by more than a...
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Gaza: 1 in 4 young children and pregnant women malnourished amid Israel’s ongoing starvation policy
July 29, 2025Israeli authorities’ deliberate use of starvation as a weapon in Gaza has reached unprecedented levels, with patients and healthcare workers themselves now fighting to survive, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) warns.MSF staff are receiving an increasing number of malnourished patients at...
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Malnutrition crisis in northern Nigeria: mobilization is urgently needed to avoid further deaths
July 25, 2025Abuja 25th July 2025- Northern Nigeria is currently facing an alarming malnutrition crisis. In Katsina State for instance, where Doctors Without Borders/ Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has been present since 2021, the teams are seeing an ever-increasing number of malnourished...
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