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Pediatrician

Voice from the Field | July 13, 2007

Susan Shepherd, MD, medical coordinator MSF programs in Maradi, Niger:
"We want to see fewer children dying of malnutrition"

Dr. Shepherd, a pediatrician, explains MSF's strategy to combat outbreaks of acute malnutrition in the country. Each year, tens of thousands of children, aged six months to three years, become acutely malnourished between June and October, the time period that corresponds to depletion of food stocks before the next harvest.