Severe acute malnutrition (SAM) and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection underlie
a major proportion of the childhood disease burden in low and middle-income countries …

Several strategies, programs and policies have long been developed and implemented to
alleviate child malnutrition in sub-Saharan African countries. However, stunting and wasting …

The Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) target 3.2 is to end preventable deaths of
newborns and children younger than 5 years by 2030. However, in 2020, more than 5 …

Undernutrition remains a global struggle and is associated with almost 45% of deaths in
children younger than 5 years. Despite advances in management of severe wasting (though …

Importance Children treated for acute malnutrition remain at increased risk of relapse,
infection, and mortality after programmatic recovery. Global guidelines for the management …

Sierra Leone has one of the highest maternal mortality rates globally (717 deaths per 100
000 livebirths in 2019), 1, 2 with the greatest burden in adolescent girls. More than a third of …

Children hospitalised for severe acute malnutrition (SAM) have a high risk of mortality,
relapse and rehospitalisation following hospital discharge. Current approaches fail to …

Globally, progress has been made to address the diagnosis and management of common
and avoidable acute illnesses that contribute to child mortality. Nevertheless, regions across …

Background Data on outcomes of children with severe acute malnutrition (SAM) following
treatment are scarce with none described from any upper-middle-income country. This study …

This paper summarizes the evidences suggesting that children in wasting treatment are
often stunted and they often become even more stunted during treatment and the post …