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Categories Archives: Acute Malnutrition and CMAM

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Impact evaluation of the World Food Programme’s moderate acute malnutrition treatment and prevention programmes in Sudan

This impact evaluation assessed the effectiveness of the World Food Programmes’s (WFP) ongoing food-based prevention of moderate acute malnutrition programme when added to the targeted supplementary feeding as a package intervention. Read the full 3ie r... Read More

Use of tuberculin skin test for assessment of immune recovery among previously malnourished children in Ethiopia.

Valid’s work in Ethiopia suggests persistence of lower resistance to infection after nutritional recovery from Malnutrition. Read all about it in our just published BMC Research Notes article: BMC Research Notes 1... Read More

Anthropometric cut-off points for older children and adolescents in Syria.

Valid's work in partnership with UNICEF Syria to develop contextualised mid-upper arm circumference (MUAC) cut-off points for older children, adolescents and adults was featured in .

Assessing Program Coverage of Two Approaches to Distributing a Complementary Feeding Supplement to Infants and Young Children in Ghana. PLoSOne. 11 (10), e0162462

Children with Moderate Acute Malnutrition with No Access to Supplementary Feeding Programmes Experience High Rates of Deterioration and No Improvement: Results from a Prospective Cohort Study in Rural Ethiopia

Children with untreated MAM in Ethiopia do not recover and many deteriorate, Valid’s latest publication in PLOSONE and we hope it generates debate around how to do better for vulnerable children. Read the report

Safety of Using Mid-Upper Arm Circumference as a Discharge Criterion in Community-Based Management of Severe Acute Malnutrition in Children Aged 6–59 Months. Food and Nutrition Technical Assistance III (FANTA)

Information-sharing to improve learning about community-based management of acute malnutrition (CMAM) and its impact. Food and Nutrition Bulletin. 35 (2, Supplement), S86-S89

Severe acute malnutrition during emergencies: burden management, and gaps. Food and Nutrition Bulletin. 35 (2, Supplement), S47-S51

Follow-up of post-discharge growth and mortality after treatment for severe acute malnutrition (FuSAM study): a prospective cohort study

PLoS One. 2014 Jun 3;9(6):e96030. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0096030. eCollection 2014.

The nature, causes, and impact of defaulting from a CMAM program in Nigeria

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