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Community Based Management of Severe Acute Malnutrition: The MSF Experience from an Urban Slum Setting in Bangladesh

Food and Nutrition Sciences, 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
E. Ali, P. Delchevalerie, Z. Shams, Petra Alders, R. Zachariah   +4 more
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Evaluation of the cost-effectiveness of the treatment of uncomplicated severe acute malnutrition by lady health workers as compared to an outpatient therapeutic feeding programme in Sindh Province, Pakistan

BMC Public Health, 2019
Background Due to the limited evidence of the cost-effectiveness of Community Health Workers (CHW) delivering treatment for severe acute malnutrition (SAM), there is a need to better understand the costs incurred by both implementing institutions and ...
Eleanor Rogers, Saul Guerrero, Deepak Kumar, Sajid Soofi, Shahid Fazal, Karen Martínez, Jose Luis Alvarez Morán, Chloe Puett   +7 more
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Evaluating the effectiveness of training on malnutrition for Anganwadi workers in Anekal Taluk, Bengaluru Urban District

Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care
Background: Post COVID-19 pandemic, due to lack of access to nutritional services, malnutrition prevalence has exacerbated. The role of Anganwadi workers in provision of nutrition services is important in prevention of malnutrition in the community. Aim:
Nancy Angeline Gnanaselvam, Avita Rose Johnson, Anupama Shetty   +2 more
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Community-Based Management of Acute Malnutrition: An Effective Intervention for Under-Nutrition

Journal of Complementary Medicine & Alternative Healthcare, 2019
Globally, Acute Malnutrition (AM) causes more than 50% of childhood mortality among children under five years of age. Before embracing the use of ready-to-use therapeutic foods, the management of AM was restricted to hospitals bases. However, the current
J. Kawuki
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Community-based management of severe acute malnutrition in India: new evidence from Bihar

American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 2015
Background: An estimated one-third of the world’s children who are wasted live in India. In Bihar state, of children
S. Burza, R. Mahajan, Elisa Marino, T. Sunyoto, Chandra Shandilya, M. Tabrez, Kabita Kumari, P. Mathew, A. Jha, Núria Salse, K. Mishra   +10 more
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Pengaruh Home Visit Terhadap Penurunan Episode Penyakit Infeksi dan Peningkatan Angka Kecukupan Gizi pada Balita Malnutrisi Akut Berat

Jurnal Ners dan Kebidanan Indonesia, 2017
Malnutrition is one of the principal causes of child mortality in developing countries including Indonesia. Severe Acute Malnutrition (SAM) is the most serious form of malnutrition affecting children under-five and is associated with many infectious ...
Titih Huriah
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Management of severe acute malnutrition in children under 5 years through the lens of health care workers in two rural South African hospitals

African Journal of Primary Health Care & Family Medicine, 2018
Background: Despite the widespread implementation of the World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines for the management of severe malnutrition in South Africa, poor treatment outcomes for children under 5 years are still observed in some hospitals ...
Moise Muzigaba, Brian van Wyk, Thandi Puoane   +2 more
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Safety and practicability of using mid-upper arm circumference as a discharge criterion in community based management of severe acute malnutrition in children aged 6 to 59 months programmes

Archives of Public Health, 2016
BackgroundThe use of proportional weight gain as a discharge criterion for MUAC admissions to programs treating severe acute malnutrition (SAM) is no longer recommended by WHO.
P. Binns, Nancy M. Dale, T. Banda, Chrissy Banda, B. Shaba, M. Myatt   +5 more
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Promoting oral health and fighting malnutrition in the Sahel region of Burkina Faso: the integrated nutrition strategy of the ‘projet de sensibilisation et de renforcement des capacités pour La prévention du Noma Au Burkina Faso’ (PSRCPN/BF)

BMC Public Health
Summary Owing to its major health and social consequences, malnutrition in the Sahel region of Burkina Faso is a determinant of noma. The ‘Projet de Sensibilisation et de Renforcement des Capacités pour la Prévention du Noma’ (PSRCPN/BF) aims to reduce ...
Hadissa Tapsoba, Peegdsom Simplice Assomption Yameogo, Souleymane Bougoum, Achille Ilboudo   +3 more
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Perceptions of Underlying Factors and Consequences of Childhood Malnutrition and Care‐Seeking Behaviour for Children Under 5 Years With Acute Malnutrition: A Qualitative Study in Rural Bangladesh

Maternal and Child Nutrition
Acute Malnutrition affects 45 million children under five globally, with Bangladesh contributing more than 1.7 million cases. While community‐based management of acute malnutrition (CMAM) guidelines in Bangladesh exist, they primarily emphasise ...
Md. Abdul Alim, Bibi Marium, Benjamin Guesdon, M. Munirul Islam, Caroline Antoine, Mehedi Hasan Anik, Stefaan De Henauw, Tahmeed Ahmed, Souheila Abbeddou   +8 more
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