<div class="gmail_quote"> <br>From: "Martin Leschhorn Strebel" <<a href="mailto:mleschhorn@medicusmundi.ch">mleschhorn@medicusmundi.ch</a>><br><div lang="DE" link="blue" vlink="blue"><div><p class="MsoNormal">
<strong><b><font size="5" color="#ff6600" face="Gill Sans MT"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Gill Sans MT";color:#FF6600">The
fight against malnutrition</span></font></b></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span><b><font size="3" face="Gill Sans MT"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Gill Sans MT";font-weight:bold">Conference
Reader published</span></font></b></span><b><font size="2" face="Gill Sans MT"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Gill Sans MT";font-weight:bold"></span></font></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Gill Sans MT"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Gill Sans MT""> </span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Gill Sans MT"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Gill Sans MT"">The developing countries
are faced with a crisis on two fronts: food prices skyrocketed in 2007/2008 and
the food situation has deteriorated once more as a result of the economic
crisis. We know from previous crises that food quality suffers above all and
that this has long-term consequences for health.</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Gill Sans MT"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Gill Sans MT""> </span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Gill Sans MT"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Gill Sans MT"">Health, nutrition and
development are all closely interlinked. One third of under-fives living in the
developing countries are behind in their development. This is due to chronic
malnutrition. These children are more likely to die prematurely because they
are less able to fight off common infectious diseases. Their chances of
financial success are also lower because their performance at school is often
poor.</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Gill Sans MT"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Gill Sans MT""> </span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Gill Sans MT"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Gill Sans MT"">Last November the Network
Medicus Mundi Switzerland
organised a conference on this issue. The contributions have just been
published.</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Gill Sans MT"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Gill Sans MT""> </span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><font size="2" face="Gill Sans MT"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Gill Sans MT";font-weight:bold">ONLINE</span></font></b><font size="2" face="Gill Sans MT"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Gill Sans MT"">:
<a href="http://bit.ly/ihCiYL" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/ihCiYL</a></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Gill Sans MT"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Gill Sans MT""> </span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><font size="3" face="Gill Sans MT"><span lang="FR" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Gill Sans MT";font-weight:bold">Content</span></font></b><font size="2" face="Gill Sans MT"><span lang="FR" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Gill Sans MT"">:</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Gill Sans MT"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Gill Sans MT"">Martin Leschhorn Strebel (D | Medicus Mundi Schweiz):
<br>
Editorial</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Gill Sans MT"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Gill Sans MT""> </span></font></p>
<div style="border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0mm 0mm 1.0pt 0mm">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;padding:0mm"><b><font size="2" face="Gill Sans MT"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Gill Sans MT";font-weight:bold">Nutrition and Health</span></font></b></p>
</div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Gill Sans MT"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Gill Sans MT"">Sybille Mooser, Jonas
Vollmer (D | Calcutta Project): <br>
Mangelernährung umfassend bekämpfen. Mangel- und Unterernährung in
Entwicklungsländern</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Gill Sans MT"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Gill Sans MT""> </span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Gill Sans MT"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Gill Sans MT"">Ruth Huber (E | Swiss
Development Cooperation): <br>
Nutrition – Bio-fortification – Health – what else? Perspectives
of SDC</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Gill Sans MT"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Gill Sans MT""> </span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Gill Sans MT"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Gill Sans MT"">Pamela Chisanga (E | ActionAid
International Sambia): <br>
Fighting Malnutrition – Advocacy for the Right to Food Experiences of
ActionAid International Zambia</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Gill Sans MT"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Gill Sans MT""> </span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Gill Sans MT"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Gill Sans MT"">Ines Egli (E | Institute of Food,
Nutrition and Health, ETH Zurich):
<br>
Biofortification: A strategy to prevent micronutrient malnutrition. </span></font><font size="2" face="Gill Sans MT"><span lang="FR" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Gill Sans MT"">Fighting micronutrient malnutrition</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Gill Sans MT"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Gill Sans MT""> </span></font></p>
<div style="border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0mm 0mm 1.0pt 0mm">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;padding:0mm"><b><font size="2" face="Gill Sans MT"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Gill Sans MT";font-weight:bold">Extra food: A successful strategy?</span></font></b></p>
</div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Gill Sans MT"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Gill Sans MT"">Tobias Schüth (E | Red
Cross Switzerland):
<br>
>From people’s mandate to national policy. Introducing Sprinkles in Kyrgyzstan</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Gill Sans MT"><span lang="FR" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Gill Sans MT""> </span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Gill Sans MT"><span lang="FR" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Gill Sans MT"">Jean-Pierre Papart (E
| terre des hommes suisse) :<br>
Management of Moderate Acute Malnutrition. </span></font><font size="2" face="Gill Sans MT"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Gill Sans MT"">Monitoring
report of ambulatory healthcare facilities in Guinea supported by Terre des
hommes</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Gill Sans MT"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Gill Sans MT""> </span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Gill Sans MT"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Gill Sans MT"">Kadiatou Keita, Maya Natarajan (D | IAMANEH
Suisse):<br>
Über den Tellerrand hinaus geschaut: Ernährungssicherung dank Empowerment. IAMANEH-Ernährungsprojekt
in Kangabe / Mali</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Gill Sans MT"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Gill Sans MT""> </span></font></p>
<div style="border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0mm 0mm 1.0pt 0mm">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;padding:0mm"><b><font size="2" face="Gill Sans MT"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Gill Sans MT";font-weight:bold">Fight against malnutrition and undernourishment</span></font></b></p>
</div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Gill Sans MT"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Gill Sans MT"">Rosemarijn de Jong (E |
wemos Netherlands):<br>
Feed the children free from commercial pressure. Promotion and protection of
breastfeeding: a key approach in the fight against malnutrition</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Gill Sans MT"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Gill Sans MT""> </span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Gill Sans MT"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Gill Sans MT"">Immita Cornaz (D):<br>
Das Recht auf angemessene Ernährung – das am meisten vernachlässigte
Menschenrecht. Mangel- und Unterernährung – Überlegungen zum MMS
Symposium</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Gill Sans MT"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Gill Sans MT""> </span></font></p>
<div style="border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0mm 0mm 1.0pt 0mm">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;padding:0mm"><b><font size="2" face="Gill Sans MT"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Gill Sans MT";font-weight:bold">Debate</span></font></b></p>
</div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Gill Sans MT"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Gill Sans MT"">Christa Luginbühl (D | Bern Declaration):<br>
Tod-schicke und teuer bezahlte Jeans. Clean Cloth Campaign fordert den Stopp </span></font><font size="2" face="Gill Sans MT"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Gill Sans MT"">sandgestrahlter Jeans</span></font><font size="2" face="Gill Sans MT"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Gill Sans MT""></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Gill Sans MT"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Gill Sans MT""> </span></font></p>
<div style="border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0mm 0mm 1.0pt 0mm">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;padding:0mm"><b><font size="2" face="Gill Sans MT"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Gill Sans MT";font-weight:bold">Magazine</span></font></b></p>
</div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Gill Sans MT"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Gill Sans MT"">Helena Zweifel HIV (D | Medicus Mundi Switzerland):</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Gill Sans MT"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Gill Sans MT"">Sexualität und Jugendliche. Fachtagung von
<a href="http://aidsfocus.ch" target="_blank">aidsfocus.ch</a>, 7. April 2011</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Gill Sans MT"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Gill Sans MT""> </span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Gill Sans MT"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Gill Sans MT"">Thomas Schwarz (E | Medicus
Mundi International MMI): “We will make the MMI Network a real community
of change for strengthening health systems”</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Gill Sans MT"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Gill Sans MT"">Medicus Mundi
International: Network Strategy 2011-2015</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Gill Sans MT"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Gill Sans MT""> </span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="navy" face="Gill Sans MT"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Gill Sans MT";color:navy">-------------------------------------</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000080" face="'Gill Sans MT'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;"><br></span></font></p></div></div></div>