Bradol, Jean-Hervé

Child Undernutrition : advantages and limits of a humanitarian medical approach - CRASH – La Fondation MSF,
2009.


Four years after the hunger crisis in Niger, much has changed on the nutrition issue. Some of these changes are internal to MSF. The success of our operation in the Maradi region in 2005 marked both the resolution of one question (the return of humanitarian medicine in treatment of severe acute malnutrition) and the beginning of new tasks for MSF teams, namely the exploration of new operational procedures (such as earlier treatment) and new objectives (dealing with zones of high infant mortality, establishing a longer-term presence in foci of endemic malnutrition instead of mounting operations only during crisis periods).