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International Rescue Committee (IRC)

• Continuing care during COVID-19: adopting lifesaving approaches to treat acute malnutrition

  <p>The risk of increasing rates of acute malnutrition during the COVID-19 pandemic demonstrates the urgent need to adapt, and expand access to, acute malnutrition diagnosis and treatment services in humanitarian

  • 10/07/2020

  • International Rescue Committee (IRC)
  • • Global
    • Coronavirus
    • Malnutrition

• The double burden of COVID-19 and locusts in East Africa: Saving Millions of People From Hunger and Malnutrition

  <p>Coinciding with COVID-19, an upsurge of desert locusts is taking place in the Horn of Africa, Arabian Peninsula and Southwest Asia, with risk of spreading to the Sahel region of Africa if it is not

  • 04/06/2020

  • International Rescue Committee (IRC)
  • • Africa
    • Crop Pests
    • Somalia
    • Food Security
    • FAO
    • Insects