The food crisis in the Sahel dramatically worsened by the war in Ukraine
As Ukraine receives most of the world’s international aid, , many countries in the Sahel are facing a dramatic food crisis. The European conflict has had an extremely negative impact on the situation in Africa .
West Africa faces its worst food crisis in ten years, with over 27 million people already suffering from hunger
An additional 11 million people could be pushed to hunger just over the next three months
ALIMA, OXFAM, Action contre la Faim, Save the Children, World Vision, International Rescue Committee, Norwegian Refugee Council, Care, HI, tearfund, Mercy Corps
Study shows success of new strategy to treat more acutely malnourished children
Results of a randomized clinical trial conducted in the Kasai province of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) were published today in the medical journal The Lancet Global Health. They show that a new approach to managing malnourished children could be more effective in combating acute malnutrition in the country.
Let’s prevent hunger from killing more people than the virus!
By Dr. Moumouni Kinda, Chief Executive Officer of ALIMA
Malnutrition emergency in the Sahel: funding cuts are affecting our action
Faced with an alarming increase in cases of child malnutrition in several of its regions of intervention, ALIMA (The Alliance for International Medical Action) and its partners are sounding the alarm to alert the public about the nutritional crisis that is sweeping through Africa’s Sahel Region and the urgent need for mobilization to treat children under the age of 5, who are greatly at risk.
MUAC for Mothers: A strategy to better screen for malnutrition during the COVID-19 pandemic
ALIMA (The Alliance for International Medical Action)’s MUAC for Mothers program, which has shown great success over the years in helping mothers and other caregivers detect malnutrition in their children at the earliest stages, has become even more important in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Humanitarian crisis in the Sahel: ALIMA strengthens its Rapid Response Mechanism
Large-scale population displacements, a proliferation of armed attacks and high levels of food insecurity have contributed to a humanitarian emergency in the ‘three-border zone’ of Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger. To meet the ever-increasing needs, ALIMA (The Alliance for International Medical Action) is strengthening its Rapid Response Mechanism (RRM), which aims to ensure access to medical and nutritional care for the most vulnerable people, within a context marked by a deterioration or withdrawal of essential public health facilities.
“My name is Mustapha and I am a nutritionnal assistant here, in Nigeria”
“My name is Mustapha. I am a nutritional assistant here at the University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital. I work in ALIMA’s Intensive Therapeutic Feeding Center (ITFC). I want to help children’s health and know everything about nutrition. I am currently also studying to become a nurse. I am currently in my first year of the three-year training course. I go to class whenever I am not working here. I like pediatrics, to take good care of the children.”
ALIMA’s innovative approach to fighting malnutrition gaining momentum
The number of mothers in the Sahel trained to screen their children for malnutrition should increase in 2018, following a recommendation by the European Commission’s Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection department (ECHO) that all partner organisations teach mothers to regularly measure the mid-upper arm circumference of their children at home using a simple, tri-colored measuring tape, known as the MUAC.
Bernardin: The Detective
“My name is Bernardin Koalga, but they call me ‘the detective.’” This is how the 40-year-old health agent from Burkina Faso introduces himself.
Bernardin, who is in charge of finding children who have defaulted from ALIMA/SOS Medecins/Keoogo malnutrition treatment programs in the Yako health district, in the north of the country, is on a mission to get all malnourished kids back into treatment.
Read on to learn more about his life-saving work.
