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Action Against Hunger has developed its water and sanitation expertise over nearly three decades of field work, advancing a number of solutions for populations at risk from water insecurity.
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Central to the targeting of malnutrition, Action Against Hunger extends water and sanitation improvements to communities with little or no access to proper sources.
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Action Against Hunger's programs are sustainable because of our commitment to community participation—to build local capacity and harnesses a population's energy and resources.
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Though strategies may vary, our food security interventions all share a common goal: to fight hunger by preserving and strengthening livelihoods in a sustainable and contextual manner.
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Action Against Hunger’s innovative food security programs offer a broad range of solutions for generating income, boosting food production, and strengthening livelihoods.
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Our comprehensive approach to hunger involves extending water and sanitation services to communities faced with water scarcity, unsafe drinking water, and inadequate sanitation.
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Action Against Hunger occupies a unique place among international organizations: our expertise encompasses emergency relief, longer-term development, and the terrain in between.
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We have developed an effective method to treat acute malnutrition that includes field-tested protocols and nutritional products backed by an international scientific advisory committee.
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Action Against Hunger helps rehabilitate and restock public health infrastructure, fields mobile health clinics, and trains local medical personnel on preventative and diagnostic care.
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Our comprehensive programs address the linkages between disease and malnutrition by coordinating with local expertise and strengthening existing public health systems.
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RESPONSE Articles 2006

New Life-Saving Products Inspire New Life-Saving Protocols

While ACF's scientists revolutionized the treatment of severe malnutrition, new nutritional products now enable new approaches like home treatment

Action Against Hunger’s scientists revolutionized the treatment of severe malnutrition with our formula for F100 milk.

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The Worldwide Threat of Intestinal Parasites

It's not just hunger: intestinal parasites also cause malnutrition

Some maladies are so commonplace throughout the developing world that when acutely malnourished children arrive at Action Against Hunger’s Therapeutic Feeding Centers, they are routinely dosed

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Cholera Outbreak: Alarm! Cooperation! Success!

Coordinating humanitarian responses, improving aid effectiveness

Cholera recently erupted at one of the refugee camps in which Action Against Hunger works.

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Water: The First Essential in Nutrition

Water is the basis of life, yet more than 1 billion people lack access to clean water. ACF offers simple, cost-effective solutions.

This article first appeared in Action Against Hunger Spain’s newsletter #30.

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Darfur: Death Comes from Neglect

ACF Intervenes in northern and southern Darfur

For more than three years, this region of Sudan, as big as France, has racked up dismaying statistics: Tens of thousands have died, 1.8 million have been displaced into camps and towns in the wes

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Pakistan One Year After the Earthquake

A Summary of ACF's Work in the Last Year In Pakistan

On October 8, 2005, an earthquake measuring 7.6 on the Richter scale clobbered south Asia. The quake’s epicenter was 95 kilometers northeast of Pakistan’s capital, Islamabad.

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Curing Hunger Through Business Fundamentals

Beneficiaries Who Learn to Run Successful Businesses Don't Go Hungry

In Indonesia, Action Against Hunger cured starvation by teaching accounting. No, we didn't expect our students to become CPAs.

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Sometimes Cash is the Best Cure for Hunger

Cash As Salaries or Vouchers Can be the Optimal Solution in Certain Situations

Sometimes humanitarians believe that food shouldn't be given to refugees who are starving in the wake of wars and natural disasters.

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For Beneficiaries, Safety Trumps Efficiency

ACF Introduced the Lorena Stove to Beneficiaries in Gulu, Uganda

During the past year in Gulu, Uganda, Action Against Hunger introduced beneficiaries to a new method of cooking.

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A Retail Market Solves a Relief Dilemma

Action Against Hunger's innovative "seeds fair" proves successful in Uganda

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