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- Somalia’s malnutrition funding dropped 80% after the United States cut its $70 million support to zero.
- MSF Health Adviser Mitchell Sangma reported 22,000 nutrition cases, 80% more than last year.
- A survey of 888 households in 14 Baidoa sites found one in four children severely malnourished and about 50% acutely malnourished.
- Since January MSF screened 21,000 children, expanded therapeutic beds to 150, and treated 3,000 with severe acute malnutrition.
