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How best to stop young children from falling sick, and dying, in places where malnutrition, malaria, diarrhoea and pneumonia are all too common?
In southern Mali, Médecins Sans Frontières and the Ministry of Health are building a circle of community-level and hospital-based care that is showing the way to effective prevention and treatment for children under five.
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In southern Mali, malnutrition is endemic—sometimes the cause, and other times the effect, of common childhood illnesses. Come rainy season, malaria wreaks its own havoc, so the chances for under-fives to fall sick and sicker, are many.