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Community-Based Management of Acute Malnutrition in Bangladesh: Feasibility and Constraints [PDF]
Food and Nutrition Bulletin, 2014 Background To achieve the United Nations Millennium Development Goals, particularly reduction in child mortality (Millennium Development Goal 4), effective interventions to address severe and moderate acute malnutrition (SAM and MAM) among children under 5 years of age must be implemented and brought to scale ...
Choudhury, Nuzhat +9 more
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Health, 2014 Background: The community based management of severe acute malnutrition (CMAM) was introduced in Ghana in 2008 to manage cases of severe acute malnutrition (SAM) recorded at the community level. This study estimated the economic cost of the CMAM programme for children under-five in the Agona west municipality of Ghana.
Abdul-Malik Chantimah Abdul-Latif +1 more
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Frontiers in Public Health, 2016 The Community Management of Acute Malnutrition (CMAM) treatment model was introduced to respond to the limited coverage of the inpatient model yet until the introduction of quick and low-cost approaches to measuring coverage, its reach was unknown.
Lenka Blanárová +3 more
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Optimizing prevention and community-based management of severe malnutrition in children [PDF]
PLoS Medicine, 2022 Zulfiqar A. Bhutta discusses prevention and treatment strategies for optimization of community-based management of severe acute malnutrition in children.
Zulfiqar A. Bhutta
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Sustainability and Scaling-Up Analysis of Community-Based Management of Acute Malnutrition: Lessons Learned from Burkina Faso [PDF]
Food and Nutrition Bulletin, 2013 Background Community-based management of acute malnutrition (CMAM) is an effective strategy frequently implemented by nongovernmental organizations, but handing CMAM over to national health systems and scaling it up remains a great challenge. Objective
Samia Laokri +2 more
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Cost effectiveness of a community based prevention and treatment of acute malnutrition programme in Mumbai slums, India. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2018 Children in slums are at high risk of acute malnutrition and death. Cost-effectiveness of community-based management of severe acute malnutrition programmes has been demonstrated previously, but there is limited evidence in the context of urban slums ...
S Goudet +7 more
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Community-based management of acute malnutrition (CMAM) in India: a position paper [PDF]
International Journal of Research in Medical Sciences, 2018 Considering the burden of Severely Acute Malnutrition (SAM) in India and the availability of SAM treatment at facility level, it is operationally not feasible to treat all SAM children. The community- based approach involves timely detection of severe acute malnutrition in the community and the provision of treatment for those without medical ...
Meeta Mathur +4 more
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Children, 2021 Geographical and economic access barriers to health facilities (HF) have been identified as some of the most important causes of the low coverage of severe acute malnutrition (SAM) treatment. The objective of this study is to assess the effectiveness and
Pilar Charle-Cuéllar +7 more
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Food and Nutrition Sciences (Print), 2020 Background: Until recently, the experience on implementing community based management of acute malnutrition (CMAM) among children has been largely based in African settings. While the government in Bangladesh is yet to scale up CMAM approach, there is still paucity of knowledge on the experience of CMAM within the complex milieu of an urban slum ...
Rony Zachariah
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Community-Based Management of Acute Malnutrition in Infants Under 6 Months of Age [PDF]
Curr Dev Nutr, 2020 Woeltje M +6 more
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