Dear CHIFA colleagues
We would be very grateful if you could share this email via CHIFA
This is an unusual request to CHIFA perhaps, but the threat to child health
from recent cuts to international assistance from the UK is unprecedented
at this time of global crisis, as the UK leads both the G7 and a
international agreement on famine prevention.
CHIFA profile: Neal Russell is a Paediatrician, Academic Clinical Fellow, who is currently working with the NHS, Medecins Sans Frontieres, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in the UK. njrnealjames AT googlemail.com
Dear colleagues
We are requesting signatures from anyone anywhere in the world in our
letter to the UK Government, asking them not to dramatically cut food aid
to children in humanitarian settings which are at risk of famine.
You can find it here
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeLYEl7K2vGy1VE_ram5ZEg7bUAPxC0...
This year the UK Government is leading the 'Famine Prevention and
Humanitarian Crises Compact', an international agreement of the G7, which
the UK is also hosting this weekend.
However at the same time, the UK government is reportedly cutting funding
for nutrition by almost 80%
(https://www.actionagainsthunger.org.uk/press-releases/uk-government-set-...), setting a very worrying example.
We feel that preventing children dying and suffering the consequences of
malnutrition and starvation, and indeed ensuring good nutrition for all
children, is a matter of concern to all child health professionals
everywhere, and we feel that those hosting international agreements must
show the right example, whoever they are.
We request you to join with us in signing this letter
thank you for your support
International Child Health Advocacy Group, a special Interest group of the
Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, UK
For more information see links below
UN Agencies warn of risk of famine in 20 countries
https://news.un.org/en/story/2021/03/1088022
Save the children report
https://resourcecentre.savethechildren.net/node/18815/pdf/nutrition_crit...
