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Coverage of Starved for Attention: Featured Slideshows

Friday, July 16th, 2010

“We tend to think of [the image of malnutrition] as a lonely child in the middle of nowhere with a vulture hanging over her. It’s not like that at all. There is a very concerned family. Hundreds of doctors go into making these children well again.”  – Photographer Marcus Bleasdale, quoted in NYTimes.com’s Lens Blog

See more coverage of the Starved for Attention photographs in these recent slideshows and articles:

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Coverage of Starved for Attention: Featured Articles

Wednesday, July 7th, 2010

“Give the children what they need, not what is left over. Treat the young children of developing countries the same way you would treat your own children.” – Dr. Susan Shepherd, MSF, quoted in an Inter Press Service article, June 5th 2010

Read more about the campaign and malnutrition in these featured pieces:

  • Marcus Bleasdale’s haunting photographs of malnutrition in Djibouti in Foreign Policy
  • Global Patriot post on Starved for Attention and malnutrition
  • Interview with photojournalist Ron Haviv in Journalism Now
  • IRIN feature on the Starved for Attention campaign

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Coverage of Starved for Attention: Al Jazeera English

Monday, June 28th, 2010

Al Jazeera English: Riz Kahn
Junk Food or Humanitarian Aid?

On June 24, Stéphane Doyon, nutrition advisor for MSF’s Access to Essential Medicines Campaign, and VII Network photographer Jessica Dimmock appeared on Al Jazeera English, along with a representative from International Relief & Development, to speak with Riz Khan about the crisis of childhood malnutrition and the need to reform the global food aid system.

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