UN Madrid summit January 2009

Read full speech by MSF Nutrition Team Leader, Stéphane Doyon at the UN Food Summit in Madrid Read full press release MSF Background document: One Crisis May Hide Another, Food Price Crisis Masked Deadly Child Malnutrition Break-through study shows how ready-to-use food prevents severe malnutrition: MSF study featured in the latest issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) shows that children in rural Niger who received ready-to-use food in addition to their normal diet were nearly 60 percent less likely to progress to the most life-threatening form of malnutrition. Read the press release Click here to link to article on JAMA’s website