Updated Packaging and Reconstitution Guidance for Therapeutic Milk. French Version
Situation Overview & Humanitarian Needs | July – September 2017
Since December 2010, Malaria Consortium has been implementing an innovative approach to community management of severe acute malnutrition, together... with an existing integrated community case management (ICCM) programme in South Sudan. This learning paper considers Malaria Consortiums experience of this combined approach in a highly complex context and shows whether the management of severe acute malnutrition is an effective, acceptable and feasible component of ICCM programming
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In-and Out-Patient Treatment
A Joint Statement by the World Health Organization and the United Nations Children’s Fund.
Journal of Tropical Pediatrics, 2020, 00, 1–5
doi: 10.1093/tropej/fmaa072
Brief Repor
Community-Based Management of Acute Malnutrition (CMAM) is a decentralised community-based approach to treating acute ...hlight medbox">malnutrition. Treatment is matched to the nutritional and clinical needs of the child, with the majority children receiving treatment at home using ready-to-use foods. In-patient care is provided only for complicated cases of acute malnutrition. CMAM consists of four components: (1) stabilisation care for acute malnutrition with complications, (2) out-patient therapeutic care for severe acute malnutrition without complications, (3) supplementary feeding for moderate acute malnutrition and (4) community mobilisation.
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A discussion paper on the scope of the problem, its drivers, and strategies for moving forward for policy, practice, and research
In many protracted emergencies, the prevalence rates of global acute malnu...trition (GAM) regularly exceed the emergency threshold of > 15% of children with acute malnutrition (< -2 weight-for-height z-scores (WHZ) or with nutritional edema), despite ongoing humanitarian interventions. The widespread scale and long-lasting nature of “persistent GAM” means that it is a policy and programming priority.
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