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Upcoming Symposiums

Starved for Attention: The Neglected Crisis of Childhood Malnutrition

A meeting to spotlight the urgent need to scale-up effective interventions

In September 2008, Doctors Without Borders/ Médecins Sans Frontières and Columbia University's Institute of Human Nutrition will convene a meeting of lead national and international organizations and experts to review recent successes and examine how international nutrition and food aid programming can more effectively address the crisis of malnutrition in high burden regions. At a time of rising food prices and food insecurity, the need to scale up efforts to prevent the deaths, illness and disability caused by malnutrition every year is even more urgent.

PAST SYMPOSIUMS

Mind the Gaps: AIDS Treatment in Health Care Worker Shortages

A MSF Satellite Meeting at the XVII International AIDS Conference

On August 3, 2008, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) invites you to attend a Satellite meeting on the impact of the health care worker shortage on access to HIV/AIDS treatment and lessons learned from clinicians and advocates working on the ground to overcome this gap. Mexico City 2008.

No Time to Wait: Overcoming Gaps in TB Drug Research and Development

A meeting to stimulate development of effective new treatments

On January 11, 2007, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières, supported by Weill Cornell Medical College, convened a symposium entitled "No Time to Wait" in New York aimed at stimulating efforts to accelerate the development of effective new treatments for tuberculosis (TB).

Recruitment Open House

Nutrition Symposium 2008