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Hundreds of thousands of children ‘facing starvation’ as last Nigeria aid points set to close The UN’s World Food Programme is grappling with a 40 per cent decline in funding, threatening its feeding programmes

Hundreds of thousands of children ‘facing starvation’ as last Nigeria aid points set to close

The UN’s @wfp.org is grappling with a 40 per cent decline in funding, threatening its feeding programmes

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Big thanks to the journalists bringing cuts to nutritional aid to international attention.

Why the company that makes Plumpy'Nut is 'just over the moon!' The therapeutic food is designed to bring malnourished kids back from the brink. A new order from the U.S. after months of mixed signals is good news for the Rhode Island factory that makes it.

“We're just over the moon trying to process all of this good news, after lots and lots and lots of bad news."

@edesianutrition.bsky.social CEO Navyn Salem talks with @npr.org about new federal funding to order Ready-to-Use Therapeutic Food (RUTF):

A new BMJ Global Health Supplement, “Towards a stronger evidence base on wasting and nutritional oedema in infants and children,” has recently been released, with Commentaries by authors including Marie T Ruel and Lieven Huybregts from IFPRI: gh.bmj.com/content/10/S...

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Every great invention starts with a questionable funding request #CalvinandHobbes #StartupLife

New special issue in @bmj.com BMJ Global Health summarizing many of the issues surrounding the 2023 @who.int Wasting Guidelines :: "Towards a stronger evidence base on wasting and nutritional oedema in infants and children"

Deadly delays: How funding gaps are undermining health care in Somalia Poverty, insecurity, and distance already impede access to care in remote areas of Somalia, and the suspension of USAID funding has caused the closure of at least 37 health sites around Baidoa.

Many pediatric and maternal health programs in southwestern Somalia have been shuttered by US aid cuts this year. A view from the bedsides of malnourished children: www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/deadl... @doctorswithoutborders.org

Inside the Red Zone: Sierra Leone’s terrifying mpox outbreak More than 5,000 have tested positive – including children – and at least 47 have died in Africa’s worst outbreak of the disease

(1/7) The Telegraph gained rare access to Sierra Leone’s Red Zones – the isolation wards where mpox patients are treated – to find out how it managed to fight off the worst mpox outbreak in its history

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Red and black graphic poster reading: “Abolish the Electoral College. Its original purpose is long gone—now it’s just a tool for cheaters to override the people’s will. One person. One vote. No exceptions. No distortions. The presidency should be decided by all Americans, not a handful of swing states. ✅ The popular vote is the future. 📢 Share if you believe every vote should count equally.” Features an icon of a ballot in a box at the top.

For women in eastern DRC nowhere is safe from sexual violence | MSF In Goma, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), MSF teams continue to record alarming numbers of sexual violence cases, with hundreds of victims and survivors seeking care at health centres each ...

Congolese women are also suffering the consequences of the dismantling of the US Agency for International Development (USAID) under the administration of Donald Trump. www.msf.org/women-easter...

Aid cuts threaten refugee lives in Gambella, Ethiopia | MSF Significant aid cuts in Ethiopia’s Gambella region are threatening refugee lives, as basic services like food distribution, healthcare, clean water, and disease prevention rapidly deteriorate.

The impact of USAID cuts is slowly but surely visible in many countries where we work. For eg: In Gambella, Ethiopia, funding cuts led to the suspension of nutrition services in 4 out of 7 refugee camps, leaving around 80,000 children under the age of 5 at risk of life-threatening malnutrition.

Staggering Scale of Need in Sudan A UNICEF eyewitness report comes with an urgent call for more resources and safe and sustained access to scale up the emergency humanitarian response.

Across #Sudan, severe acute malnutrition among children is rising sharply. Thanks to UNICEF-supported clinics like this one, children are receiving RUTF and care — but the scale of the crisis means more support is urgently needed to reach every child in need.

Learn more:

I smell a metaphor.

We call on the Israeli authorities to ensure medical evacuations for all Palestinians in need of medical care, including their caretakers, while ensuring that all patients and their caregivers are guaranteed a safe, voluntary and dignified return to Gaza.

Centrifuge-free stool processing methods for Xpert MTB/RIF Ultra tuberculosis diagnosis in children in Uganda and Zambia: an observational, prospective, diagnostic accuracy study Centrifuge-free stool processing methods could improve access to microbiological diagnosis of tuberculosis in LMICs. These results contributed to the WHO endorsement of the SOS and OSF methods.

A study in Uganda and Zambia evaluated 3 centrifuge-free stool methods for paediatric TB diagnosis using Xpert MTB/RIF Ultra. Results support WHO’s endorsement of stool-based testing, highlighting its simplicity and potential to improve access in LMICs.
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@doctorswithoutborders.org released a report this morning documenting the targeted, orchestrated killing of civilians at Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) aid distribution sites.

Please read and do everything in your power to stop this.
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We've incorporated these very important #GASTROSAM results into the UpToDate article on management of children with severe wasting and medical complications.

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We are investigating possible locally acquired case of malaria - Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department The risk to the public is very low. An East Pierce County woman who has not traveled recently was diagnosed Aug. 2 with malaria.

Possibly locally acquired malaria near Tacoma, Washington.

YouTube video by CBS News State Department puts out request for foreign nutrition aid

Rubio scrambles to rebrand by ordering new emergency food while millions in nutrition aid rotted in warehouses after USAID was gutted. Fraud, complicity, and wasted tax dollars pile up. Now he wants credit for cleaning up the disaster he helped create.

Newly released estimates from @who.int @unicef.org & #WorldBank show faltering progress in ending childhood #malnutrition

Continued access to robust data like this ensures decision makers are held accountable to sustain & advance progress for millions of children data.unicef.org/resources/jme/

Multi-resistant bacteria identified in malnourished children under five in Nige A new study led by researchers at the Ineos Oxford Institute for antimicrobial research (IOI), in collaboration with Epicentre, has found that antimicrobial resistant bacteria is spreading rapidly amo...

Multi-resistant bacteria identified in malnourished children in Niger
A study by the Ineos Oxford Institute in collaboration with Epicentre reveals @natcomms.nature.com the rapid spread of antibiotic-resistant bacteria in a hospital in the Madarounfa district.
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DOGE Wasted Tens of Billions While Chainsawing the Government in the Name of 'Efficiency': Senate Report | Common Dreams Elon Musk's DOGE wasted more than $21 billion in just six months. Other studies have found that in the longterm it may cost the government more than it saved, while resulting in millions of deaths.

Musk’s DOGE burned $21 billion in six months. Fourteen billion paid to workers not working. Six billion more in severance. IRS cuts may cost up to $2.4 trillion. USAID slashed, food and meds spoiled. One million dead already. Trump calls it savings. The math calls it a crime.

The famines in Gaza and other conflict areas are a moral failure As scientists and members of the Standing Together for Nutrition Consortium (ST4N) who have been Standing Together For Nutrition during recent crises, we use evidence of the impact of crises on nutrit...

We members of the Standing Together for Nutrition Consortium raise our voices against the intentional deprivation of food and aid in Gaza, and in other countries, including Sudan, South Sudan, and Yemen. The Lancet commentary: shorturl.at/oGYqA. ST4N call to action: shorturl.at/Jssyb

The environmental impacts of conflict Often overlooked as a dimension of the health effects of war, the impacts of conflict on the environment are gaining increasing attention. Rebecca Sers reports.

Armed conflicts pose unprecedented challenges for public health.

Often overlooked as a dimension of the health effects of war, the impacts of conflict on the environment are gaining increasing attention.

✍️ Rebecca Sers reports: tinyurl.com/4u4fhz3f

USAID Cuts Leave West Bank Water Supply High and Dry The now-dissolved USAID was a major funder of water projects in the West Bank, where Palestinians continue to suffer desperate water shortages.

Trump gutted USAID, axed West Bank water aid, and left 90,000 Palestinians in Dura drinking from a single leaking pipe. This isn’t foreign policy. It’s cruelty dressed as efficiency. Empire doesn’t need boots on the ground when it can cut off your water. Shame.

Trump Administration Puts New Chokehold on Billions in Health-Research Funding The National Institutes of Health can’t award grants to outside researchers under a new White House restriction.

NEW
The White House is blocking the NIH from awarding new research grants for the rest of the fiscal year

Chokes off billions in research funding

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#Gaza

🔺Acute malnutrition has risen, with malnutrition levels among children under five quadrupling in just two months.

🔺 Children are dying from hunger and lack of access to care.

🚨 #GazaStrip #Malnutrition Crisis

Acute malnutrition has surged across the Gaza Strip, quadrupling and reaching #Famine threshold in Gaza City.

@TheIPCinfo #NutritionCrisis #AcuteMalnutrition

🚨 #GazaStrip Alert

The worst-case scenario of #Famine is rapidly unfolding in the #GazaStrip amid relentless conflict, displacements, and extremely limited humanitarian access.

📄 Read more: www.ipcinfo.org/fileadmin/us...

@TheIPCinfo #FoodInsecurity #Malnutrition

Israel committing genocide in Gaza, say Israel-based human rights groups Reports detailing intentional targeting of Palestinians as a group, and systemic destruction of Palestinian society, add to pressure for action

“The destruction of the healthcare system alone makes the war genocidal under article 2c of the genocide convention, which prohibits deliberately inflicting conditions of life calculated to destroy a group ‘in whole or part’.”