Since the beginning of 2022, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams have witnessed extraordinarily high numbers of children with malnutrition in our programs across northwest Nigeria.
“With increasing insecurity, climate change, and global inflation of food prices in a post-pandemic world, we can only imagine this crisis getting worse,” said Dr. Simba Tirima, MSF country representative in Nigeria. MSF is calling for a stronger UN and international response to this emergency. Since January, MSF teams have treated close to 100,000 children with acute malnutrition in outpatient facilities and admitted some 17,000 children requiring hospital care in inpatient centers across five states. Read more. | 
