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Effectiveness of community-based treatment programs for treatment of uncomplicated severe acute malnourished children aged 6–59 months using locally produced nutrient dense foods: protocol for a multicentric longitudinal quasi-experimental study

BMC Nutrition, 2021
Background Severe acute malnutrition (SAM) is a major underlying cause of mortality among children. Around one third of the world’s acutely malnourished children live in India.
Praveen Kumar, Rajesh Kumar Sinha, Abner Daniel, Hemang Shah, Raja Sriswan, Arun Kokane, Aditya Mohapatra, Vivek Kashyap, Anil Kumar Goel, Virendra Kumar, Asha Kiran, N. Arlappa, Ankur Joshi, Rashmi Ranjan Nayak, Manjula Singh, Mihretab Salasibew, Samik Ghosh, Sameer Manikrao Pawar, Preetu Mishra, Khyati Tiwari, Sourav Bhattacharjee, Farhat Saiyed, Tarun Shrikrishna Patel, Pritish Kumar Nayak, Sanjay Kumar Sahoo, Mahendra Prajapati, Shikha Sinha, Arjan de Wagt   +27 more
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Bottleneck analysis of community-based management of severe acute malnutrition program in the tribal state Jharkhand

Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care
A BSTRACT Throughout the world, the majority of deaths among under-five children are accredited to malnutrition. Malnutrition is a serious condition for children in India; it makes the diseases more fatal and increases the severity of the ...
K. Kiran, N. Priya, M. Kujur, Anit Kujur, V. Sagar, S. Sunderam, Reema Kumari   +6 more
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Perspectives for integration into the local health system of community-based management of acute malnutrition in children under 5 years: a qualitative study in Bangladesh

Nutrix Journal, 2014
BackgroundAcute malnutrition is a major cause of death among under-five children in low- and middle-income countries. United Nations agencies recommend the integration of community-based management of acute malnutrition (CMAM) into the local health ...
C. E. Kouam, H. Delisle, H. Ebbing, A. Israël, C. Salpéteur, Myriam Ait Aissa, V. Ridde   +6 more
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Smart Management of Malnutrition Using Local Foods: A Sustainable Initiative for Developing Countries

Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 2022
Malnutrition is one of the major challenges the developing world is currently facing, whether it is caused by climate change, terrorism and conflict, or demographic shifts.
Issoufou Amadou, Sitou Lawali
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Coverage Assessment For Community-Based Management Of Acute Malnutrition In Rural And Urban Ghana: A Comparative Cross-Sectional Study. 

, 2020
Background: Ghana for years has implemented the Community-based Management of Acute Malnutrition (CMAM) among children in order to reduce malnutrition prevalence. However, the prevalence of malnutrition remains high.
J. Apenkwa, S. Newton, S. Amponsah, Reuben Osei-Antwi, E. Nakua, A. Edusei, E. Otupiri   +6 more
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Nutritional treatment of children 6–59 months with severely low weight-for-age z-score: a study protocol for a 3-arm randomized controlled trial

Trials
Background Admission criteria that treat children with low mid-upper-arm circumference (MUAC), and low weight-for-height z-score (WHZ) are not aligned with the evidence on which children are at risk of mortality.
Suvi T. Kangas, Césaire T. Ouédraogo, Moctar Tounkara, Bareye Ouoluoguem, Issa Niamanto Coulibaly, Alhousseyni Haidara, Niele Hawa Diarra, Koniba Diassana, Zachary Tausanovitch, Christian Ritz, Jonathan C. Wells, André Briend, Mark Myatt, Elizabeth Radin, Jeanette Bailey   +14 more
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Assessment of Performance on Community Management of Acute Malnutrition in Wagini OTP Center, Batsari Local Government Area of Katsina State

UMYU Journal of Microbiology Research, 2017
Community Management of Acute Malnutrition (CMAM) is a community-based integrated approach for management of acute malnutrition. Retrospective and on-the-spot (present) assessment performance of community management of acute malnutrition program was ...
Bello Usman, Sani Aliyu, O A Owolabi, A B Sallau   +3 more
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Community-based management of acute malnutrition (CMAM) in India: a position paper

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.
M. Mathur, A. Halim, Mousumi Gupta, B. Panda, Arish Syed   +4 more
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Simplifying and optimising management of acute malnutrition in children aged 6 to 59 months: study protocol for a community-based individually randomised controlled trial in Kasaï, Democratic Republic of Congo

BMJ Open, 2020
Introduction Acute malnutrition (AM) is a continuum condition, arbitrarily divided into moderate and severe AM (SAM) categories, funded and managed in separate programmes under different protocols. Optimising acute MAlnutrition (OptiMA) treatment aims to
C. Cazes, K. Phelan, Victoire Hubert, Rodrigue Alitanou, H. Boubacar, Liévin Izie Bozama, Gilbert Tshibangu Sakubu, A. Beuscart, Cyrille Yao, D. Gabillard, Moumouni Kinda, A. Augier, X. Anglaret, S. Shepherd, R. Becquet   +14 more
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Energy needs in the treatment of uncomplicated severe acute malnutrition: Secondary analysis to optimize delivery of ready‐to‐use therapeutic foods

Maternal and Child Nutrition, 2020
Outpatient therapeutic feeding protocols for the treatment of uncomplicated severe acute malnutrition in children were initially based on weight gain data from inpatient settings and expert knowledge of the physiological requirements during recovery ...
Sheila Isanaka, Christopher T. Andersen, Kerstin E. Hanson, Fatou Berthé, Rebecca F. Grais, André Briend   +5 more
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