Malnutrition in Mauritania: 20150529_UNICEF_portfolio_Dragaj_016

A 35 days old baby Lacuna, lays on the bed of the Medicines Sans Frontiers (MSF) clinic while attended by doctors in Mbera refugee camp.Lacuna was admitted to the clinical treatment of severe acute malnutrition and severe intestinal infection two days earlier. UNICEF in partnership with MSF In the Mbera refugee camp, the Nutrition survey carried out in November 2014 showed a significant decrease of both global acute malnutrition (from 11.8 to 9.9%) and severe acute malnutrition (1.4% to 0.8) rates. As of today, UNICEF has been supporting the government nutrition center in the treatment of 444 severe acute malnutrition (SAM) cases and contributed to the treatment of 790 other SAM cases.

A 35 days old baby Lacuna, lays on the bed of the Medicines Sans Frontiers (MSF) clinic while attended by doctors in Mbera refugee camp.

Lacuna was admitted to the clinical treatment of severe acute malnutrition and severe intestinal infection two days earlier.

UNICEF in partnership with MSF

In the Mbera refugee camp, the Nutrition survey carried out in November 2014 showed a significant decrease of both global acute malnutrition (from 11.8 to 9.9%) and severe acute malnutrition (1.4% to 0.8) rates. As of today, UNICEF has been supporting the government nutrition center in the treatment of 444 severe acute malnutrition (SAM) cases and contributed to the treatment of 790 other SAM cases.