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Who Cares for the Carers? Malnutrition and its Mental Health Toll

Mail & Guardian · 08 October 2026 at 09:39

Who Cares for the Carers? Malnutrition and its Mental Health Toll

As severe acute malnutrition affects hundreds of thousands of children in northern Nigeria, Doctors Without Borders is addressing an overlooked crisis: the severe emotional and mental toll borne by the mothers and caregivers at their bedsides.

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