Starved for Attention

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Rewriting the Story

In 2010, Doctors Without Borders/Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) and VII Photo launched "Starved for Attention," an international multimedia campaign to rewrite the story of childhood malnutrition. Petition signatures were collected from people around the world who joined us in demanding that donor nations stop supplying nutritionally substandard food to malnourished children.

Watch this video to see what the campaign has accomplished and still needs to be done to rewrite the story.

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The Starved for Attention exhibit toured the United States in September and October, recreating an MSF field hospital specializing in the treatment of malnourished children, just like those used in the field.

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Food Aid System Continues to Fail Malnourished Children

October 13, 2011

While young victims of war and famine are able to access latest lifesaving, nutritious foods, millions more malnourished children still receive poor quality food aid.

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Malnutrition Worldwide

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Kenya and Somalia

Why Do We Have To Wait For A Crisis?

By Lynsey Addario

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djibouti

Frustration

By Marcus Bleasdale

Doctors and nurses scramble to treat a never-ending influx of malnourished children.

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bangladesh

Terrifying Normalcy

By Ron Haviv

Under-nourished girls grow into under-nourished mothers, and the vicious cycle continues.

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D.R.C

The Malnutrition that Shouldn’t Be

By Franco Pagetti

Even in a place with agricultural wealth, violence and instability cause an overwhelming need for treatment.

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Burkina Faso

A Mother's Devotion

by Jessica Dimmock

Known as the “hunger gap”, rural malnutrition recurs seasonally when crops are scarce and the 80 percent of Burkinabe who depend on subsistence farming lose their primary source of nourishment.

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Facts

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The US WIC program serves 45% of all infants born in the US.

In Oaxaca state alone, 52% of the state is enrolled in the Oportunidades program, over 410,000 families.

Less than one half of 1% of Djibouti's land is suitable for farming.

Anemia is three times more common in Indian children than in Chinese children.

80% of the developing world's stunted children live in 24 countries.

The US WIC program decreases the rate of low birth weight by 44%.

No other risk factor poses a greater threat to young children today than malnutrition.

60% of the developing world's malnourished children live in 10 countries.

india

Invisible

By Stephanie Sinclair

In a place where malnutrition is so pervasive that it's almost invisible, doctors and mothers prove that there's no reason it can't be treated on a larger scale.

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mexico

A Solution from Within

By Jon Stanmeyer

A commitment to getting nutritious foods to children at the right time in the life shows that there is a solution.

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U.S.A

The U.S. Standard and A Double Standard

By Antonin Kratochvil & Jessica Dimmock

In a nation that provides half of the world’s food assistance, why is substandard food for malnourished children being sent to the poorest corners of earth?

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The Story of Malnutrition

Rewriting the Story

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Food Aid System Continues to Fail Malnourished Children

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Infographic:
Malnutrition Worldwide

Kenya and Somalia

Why Do We Have To Wait For A Crisis?

djibouti

Frustration

bangladesh

Terrifying Normalcy

D.R.C

The Malnutrition that Shouldn’t Be

Burkina Faso

A Mother's Devotion

Fast

Facts

The US WIC program serves 45% of all infants born in the US.

In Oaxaca state alone, 52% of the state is enrolled in the Oportunidades program, over 410,000 families.

Less than one half of 1% of Djibouti's land is suitable for farming.

Anemia is three times more common in Indian children than in Chinese children.

80% of the developing world's stunted children live in 24 countries.

The US WIC program decreases the rate of low birth weight by 44%.

No other risk factor poses a greater threat to young children today than malnutrition.

60% of the developing world's malnourished children live in 10 countries.

india

Invisible

mexico

A Solution from Within

U.S.A

The U.S. Standard and A Double Standard

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The Story of Malnutrition

Rewriting the Story

Blog

Blog

Food Aid System Continues to Fail Malnourished Children

Blog

Infographic:Malnutrition Worldwide

Kenya and Somalia

Why Do We Have To Wait For A Crisis?

djibouti

Frustration

bangladesh

Terrifying Normalcy

D.R.C

The Malnutrition that Shouldn’t Be

Burkina Faso

A Mother's Devotion

Fast

Facts

The US WIC program serves 45% of all infants born in the US.

In Oaxaca state alone, 52% of the state is enrolled in the Oportunidades program, over 410,000 families.

Less than one half of 1% of Djibouti's land is suitable for farming.

Anemia is three times more common in Indian children than in Chinese children.

80% of the developing world's stunted children live in 24 countries.

The US WIC program decreases the rate of low birth weight by 44%.

No other risk factor poses a greater threat to young children today than malnutrition.

60% of the developing world's malnourished children live in 10 countries.

india

Invisible

mexico

A Solution from Within

U.S.A

The U.S. Standard and A Double Standard

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Infographic:
Malnutrition Worldwide