Recent flooding in Niger has drastically affected food supply, increasing the country’s already-high rate of childhood malnutrition.

MSF’s nutritional centers expect to treat close to 150,000 Nigerien children this year. Listen to MSF’s Dr. Susan Shepherd discuss malnutrition in Niger on BBC’s World Service radio program, “World Today”.

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Despite the current spike in malnutrition, Dr. Shepherd says, “We know that every year is a bad year for the young children in Niger when it comes to malnutrition;” what is needed are “ways to avoid having to develop last-minute, chaotic, huge, and very expensive emergency programming.”

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