Nutrition
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Sudan: When the community seizes the fight against malnutrition
Published on 20 January 2023 | NewsAcute and chronic malnutrition remains one of the major public health concerns in Sudan. To address emergency food and nutritional needs of families with children diagnosed with malnutrition in Gedaref, eastern Sudan, Première Urgence Internationale involves health volunteers from the community. Rogia is one of them.Read more -
Yemen: “Nutrition activities met an urgent need to my twin daughters and made my life easier”
Published on 28 February 2022 | NewsIn Yemen, 66 percent of the population are estimated to need humanitarian assistance in 2021, according to the Humanitarian Needs Overview (HNO) analysis. Over 2.25 million cases of children aged 0 to 59 months, and more than a million pregnant and lactating women, were projected to suffer from acute malnutrition in 2021 (HNO, 2021).Read more -
Central African Republic: Strengthening Access to Health Care and Improving Food Security for Vulnerable Populations in Bamingui-Bangoran
Published on 27 May 2021 | NewsSince 2018, Première Urgence Internationale has been implementing a project to provide emergency medical-nutritional assistance and strengthen the primary and secondary health system in the Bamingui-Bangoran Prefecture, Central African Republic. An initiative made possible through the support of the European Union's Bêkou Fund.Read more -
In Chad, Première Urgence Internationale is training mothers to detect malnutrition in children
Published on 2 July 2020 | NewsIn 2020, communities in Chad are still vulnerable to malnutrition. The challenging climate, limited access to water, poor crop production, and insufficient medical infrastructure have created a crisis situation to which the COVID-19 pandemic now also contributes. For two years, Première Urgence Internationale has been working in close cooperation with mothers and guardians to make diagnosis easier and to treat seriously ill children more quickly.Read more -
Yemen: Première Urgence Internationale expands activities to the South
Published on 18 October 2019 | NewsPremière Urgence Internationale has been operating in Yemen since 2007. The NGO supports the primary health system in both governorates of Hudaydah and Raymah, which are notable, as is all of the country, for food insecurity and severe chronic malnutrition. Thanks to the support of the European Union, activities have been expanded to complementary health facilities in the governorate of Taizz, south of the country.Read more -
Yemen: Help people to grow productive home gardens
Published on 12 June 2019 | NewsTo address root causes of malnutrition in Yemen, and provide a longer-term response, Première Urgence Internationale leaded a nutrition project in the governorates of Hodeidah and Raymah. Objective: help the targeted households to establish their own productive gardens, and increase their preservation capacity.Read more -
Understanding the food and nutrition situation in North Korea
Published on 22 January 2018 | NewsCamille, engineer specialised in agricultural development, gives us keys toward a better understanding of North Korea's food and nutrition situation.Read more -
“What I remember from this mission is above all the good understanding among the team”
Published on 5 July 2017 | HR newsWendy Pierre and Vincent Rotureau come back from Chad, where they spent 8 months as a field coordinator and as a food security, nutrition and livelihood coordinator. They talk about the specific context of this mission.Read more -
Interview with Amélie d’Hautefeuille, former field coordinator in Nigeria
Published on 28 April 2017 | HR newsAmélie has spent nine months working for the Nigeria mission. She tells us about her experience.Read more
