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Tackling chronic malnutrition in Nepal   2009/06/07 12:40:43
  Tackling chronic malnutrition in Nepal Seema Rajouria 04 June 2009   A UNDP project in Nepal’s Jumla district is being implemented to provide better health services and reduce malnutrition. As part of efforts to localise MDGs, mothers are taught about proper  ... Read more ...

Vitamin Hoax: Big Pharma Speaks Through Reader's Digest Magazine   2009/06/06 07:37:05
NaturalNews) The cover of the November 2007 issue of Reader‘s Digest magazine makes a strong statement through a featured article entitled The Vitamin Hoax: 10 Not to Take. Written by Reader‘s Digest Senior Research Editor, Neena Samuel, the article cautions readers not to be duped into  ... Read more ...

Darfur: Doctors Without Borders Gravely Concerned for Patients Left Without Care   2009/06/03 20:46:17
Following expulsions of French and Dutch sections from Northern Sudan, MSF reiterates its concerns for patients left without care and denounces harassment and threats made toward staff during expulsion process April 23, 2009 Amsterdam/Paris/New York, April 23, 2009 — The Dutch and French  ... Read more ...

America's poor are its most generous givers   2009/05/31 06:44:07
WASHINGTON — When Jody Richards saw a homeless man begging outside a downtown McDonald‘s recently, he bought the man a cheeseburger. There‘s nothing unusual about that, except that Richards is homeless, too, and the 99-cent cheeseburger was an outsized chunk of the $9.50  ... Read more ...

Local African Fruits Valuable During Food Shortages   2009/05/29 13:54:12
  By Cole Mallard Washington, DC28 May 2009   In this first of a five part series, an NGO in Washington says the continent is home to indigenous crops that experts consider "lost" to modern research. The NGO, the National Research Council, says the word "lost," in  ... Read more ...

Six Months With Doctors Without Borders   2009/05/29 12:39:15
  NPR - Talk of the Nation: One Doctor‘s ‘Six Months In Sudan‘ May 26, 2009  Dr. James Maskalyk, author of "Six Months in Sudan", recounts his work with MSF in Sudan, treating malnourished patients and fended off a measles epidemic with limited resources.  Click  ... Read more ...

Ethiopia: Humanitarian Bulletin - 25 May 2009   2009/05/26 18:24:37
Food and Nutritional Security Increased cases of malnutrition continue to be reported in many woredas of SNNPR and East and West Hararghe zones of Oromiya Region. The nutritional situation in parts of West Arsi, Arsi, Agarfa and Bale (Oromiya) and Dessie Zuria (Amhara) also remains of concern.  ... Read more ...

Preventing Famine with a Mobile   2009/05/25 10:25:43
Ethopia again this year has experienced crippling droughts.  Faced with the possibility of famine, UNICEF Ethiopia launched a massive food distribution program to supply the high-protein food Plumpy‘nut to under-nourished children using mobile phones for monitoring and delivering  ... Read more ...

Doctors Without Borders, USA, Rating   2009/05/24 19:53:58
International : Development and Relief Services Doctors Without Borders, USA Delivering emergency aid Current Rating Historical Data Comments (23) Rating Overall Rating           (61.16) Organizational  ... Read more ...

And as the situation in Pakistan becomes more desperate and overwhelming,   2009/05/24 19:45:33
Support UNICEF‘s emergency response in Pakistan. Donate now!  CHILD SURVIVAL ALERT! A boy waits in line with his father to get food at a refugee camp in Swabi, in northwest  ... Read more ...

The Hidden Hunger, By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF   2009/05/24 12:02:53
The most heartbreaking thing about starving children is their equanimity. They don’t cry. They don’t smile. They don’t move. They don’t show a flicker of fear, pain or interest. Tiny, wizened zombies, they shut down all nonessential operations to employ every last calorie  ... Read more ...

Who is with me? Do you want to be on a DVD that I send to the President?   2009/05/24 11:53:59
I want to document the collective voices of all of us who stand with the people of Darfur by creating a DVD to send President Obama. This DVD will contain your personal message to the President on behalf of the Darfur people.    This DVD will be a powerful  ... Read more ...

...opening of packed refugee camps to more aid   2009/05/22 12:48:17
By ARTHUR MAXAssociated Press Writer U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon appealed to a triumphant Sri Lanka on Friday to seize its moment of victory over the Tamil Tiger rebels to resolve long-standing grievances of the Tamil minority. The world body head also said he would seek permission for more  ... Read more ...

Eastern Congo: Air Drops Begin After Rains Cut Off Hungry   2009/05/22 04:53:27
Published on 20 May 2009 share + Airdrop in Dungu Copyright: WFP/Ibrahima Diallo WFP has started air dropping food into Dungu in the north-eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to reach more than 130,000 displaced people and their host families who  ... Read more ...

WFP Does What Little It Can For North Koreans   2009/05/22 04:50:55
Published on 05 March 2009 share +  Copyright: WFP/Lena Savelli As we scale back our food assistance programme to North Koreans, WFP is allocating the limited food stocks available to some of the most vulnerable regions and beneficiary groups. Food  ... Read more ...

Abducted aid workers freed in Darfur   2009/05/20 09:21:27
(CNN) -- Four abducted medical workers abducted in Sudan‘s Darfur region earlier this week appeared Saturday on Sudanese TV after their release. Members of the humanitarian group Medecins San Frontieres are greeted at airport after their release. All four  ... Read more ...

Chad: Adapting food aid to combat malnutrition   2009/05/20 07:18:53
Photo: Celeste Hicks/IRIN Women and their children in Kanem region, western Chad N‘DJAMENA, 7 May 2009 (IRIN) - While food aid is vital for tackling malnutrition, it cannot be the sole response when the condition is chronic as in Chad’s western Kanem region, where aid  ... Read more ...

Darfur: Punishment or Aid?   2009/05/19 05:47:28
Shortly after the International Criminal Court delivered an indictment of President Omar Hassan al-Bashir, the Sudanese government expelled more than a dozen international humanitarian aid organizations from Darfur, including two sections of Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans  ... Read more ...

Doctors Without Borders banned from Darfur   2009/05/15 14:21:36
NAIROBI, Kenya - On her last day in the war-torn Darfur region of western Sudan, Gemma Davies, a British staffer with Doctors Without Borders, helped arrange for a gunshot victim to be transferred from the charity group‘s remote mountain clinic to a faraway state hospital. She watched as  ... Read more ...