Background Current (1999) World Health Organization guidelines recommend giving
routine antibiotics (AB) for all children with severe acute malnutrition (SAM), even if they …

Background Severe acute malnutrition (SAM) affects nearly 20 million children worldwide
and is responsible for up to 1 million deaths per year in children under the age of 5 years …

OBJECTIVE: To systemically review the evidence in support of World Health Organization
guidelines recommending broad-spectrum antibiotics for children with severe acute …

1. Introduction In 2007, the Better Medicines for Children (BMC) initiative of the World Health
Organisation (WHO) was developed in response to World Health Assembly (WHA) …

Background High-quality evidence supporting a community-based treatment protocol for
children with severe acute malnutrition, including routine antibiotic use at admission to a …

Severe acute malnutrition (SAM) is associated with increased severity of common infectious
diseases, and death amongst children with SAM is almost always as a result of infection …

Background Mortality among children under 5 years of age admitted to malnutrition units in
sub-Saharan Africa remains high. The burden of HIV infection, a major risk factor for …

Background: Severe acute malnutrition contributes to 1 million deaths among children
annually. Adding routine antibiotic agents to nutritional therapy may increase recovery rates …

Background Children with complicated severe acute malnutrition (SAM) have a greatly
increased risk of mortality from infections while in hospital and after discharge. In HIV …

Objective To understand how the World Health Organization's (WHO's) guidelines on the
inpatient care of children with complicated severe acute malnutrition may be strengthened to …