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DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a special lecture by Dr. Buddhima Lokuge of Doctors 
 Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), who will speak about 
 MSF’s work in areas devastated by malnutrition. This ongoing crisis 
 contributes to 3.5 to 5 million deaths in children under five each year, 
 leads to long term disability, and results in poor health and educational 
 outcomes for many more. Dr. Lokuge will speak about malnutrition's impact 
 on children, their families and communities; of the neglect of the problem 
 at the national and international level; and of practical strategies to 
 reverse the crisis in the worst affected areas. At a time of increasing 
 food prices and food insecurity, Dr. Lokuge will speak of the urgent need 
 for international action. \n\nBuddhima Lokuge is a medical practitioner 
 with MSF in New York.  As U.S. manager of the organization's Access to 
 Essential Medicines Campaign, he coordinates nutrition-related policy and 
 advocacy for MSF in the U.S. Dr. Lokuge has field experience with MSF in 
 India and in Afghanistan, where he ran MSF's malnutrition programs in the 
 district of Ghazni. Doctors Without Borders (MSF) is an international 
 medical humanitarian organization that has responded to nutritional crises 
 since the 1970s and works to address malnutrition in more than 22 high 
 burden countries around the world. \nThis event is free, wheelchair 
 accessible, and open to the public. For more information please visit 
 http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org. \n\nSponsored by the UC Berkeley 
 Alliance for Global Health and the Blum Center for Developing Economies. 
 \n\nThis event is free, open to the public, and wheelchair accessible. \n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/10/07/18543268.php
SUMMARY:Starved for Attention: The Neglected Crisis of Childhood Malnutrition
LOCATION:UC Berkeley \nBerdahl Auditorium, Stanley Hall 
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/10/07/18543268.php
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