Andre Briend

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In this part of the world that is filled with food abundance, it is hard to believe that over a million of children are dying with malnutrition and food scarcity. For the struggling, developing nations like Niger, the poverty overlapped with drought becomes a messenger of death for children. The parents are unable to do anything about the problem and helplessly see their child losing the life and accepting death. The children look like small wombs, not fully developed, having an impaired motor responses due to lack of energy. It sounds heart aching and terrible, but how many times, we see someone to do something about it? How many times a person puts the humanity above everything and has a lifesaving impact on world? Here is the perfect example of life saving hero.
Andre Briend, a pediatric nutritionist from France has a different story and achievement than others, he has always wanted to do something for the deprived and hunger stricken kids. This something turned out to be the most revolutionary product in fighting the childhood malnutrition i.e. Plumpy'nut. Looking at the problems in nursing the malnutrition kids in hospitals, Andre wanted to design a formulae that is ready to eat and does not involve much of training inject it.
Hence, the Plumpy’nut solved this problem and it is saving millions of lives every year. The product has been highly appreciated across the world and its commercial availability is also underway. In the emergency situations and the rehabilitation centers, the Plumpy’nut has won a great success and is widely used. At many points, it has replaced the traditional methods of WHO for nutrition treatment. Packed in the foil, this is a godsend gift routed through the healing hands of the Andre who became an ...

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...id find the fresh water, the mixing in contaminated environment would take away the healing power of the powder. As a result, the child will be on the death bed again.
While struggles were made to find a solution to treat malnutrition with nutrition powder that was not coming out successfully due to short life of therapeutic milk and scarcity of clean water in food-stricken areas. Which than gave birth to two major difficulties, where all harshly malnourished children were in need medical care and supervision round the clock, the lack of

Works Cited

Tectonidis, M. (2006). Crisis in Niger—outpatient care for severe acute malnutrition. New England Journal of Medicine, 354(3), 224-227.
Enserink, M. (2008). The peanut butter debate. Science, 322(5898), 36-38.
Wines, M. (2005). Hope for hungry children, arriving in a foil packet. The New York Times, 8(8).

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