Effectiveness of interventions for managing acute malnutrition in children under five years of age in low-income and middle-income countries: a systematic review and …

JK Das, RA Salam, M Saeed, FA Kazmi, ZA Bhutta - Nutrients, 2020 - mdpi.com
Childhood malnutrition is a major public health concern, as it is associated with significant
short-and long-term morbidity and mortality. The objective of this review was to …

Treatment of severe and moderate acute malnutrition in low-and middle-income settings: a systematic review, meta-analysis and Delphi process

LM Lenters, K Wazny, P Webb, T Ahmed, ZA Bhutta - BMC public health, 2013 - Springer
Background Globally, moderate acute malnutrition (MAM) and severe acute malnutrition
(SAM) affect approximately 52 million children under five. This systematic review evaluates …

Efficacy of World Health Organization guideline in facility‐based reduction of mortality in severely malnourished children from low and middle income countries: A …

M Hossain, MJ Chisti, MI Hossain… - … of paediatrics and …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Globally more than 19 million under‐five children suffer from severe acute malnutrition
(SAM). Data on efficacy of World Health Organization's (WHO's) guideline in reducing SAM …

[HTML][HTML] Treating moderate acute malnutrition in first-line health services: an effectiveness cluster-randomized trial in Burkina Faso

L Nikiema, L Huybregts, P Kolsteren, H Lanou… - The American journal of …, 2014 - Elsevier
Background: Management of moderate acute malnutrition (MAM) is, currently, focused on
food supplementation approaches. However, the sustainability of these strategies remains …

[HTML][HTML] Simplifying and optimising the management of uncomplicated acute malnutrition in children aged 6–59 months in the Democratic Republic of the Congo …

C Cazes, K Phelan, V Hubert, H Boubacar… - The Lancet global …, 2022 - thelancet.com
Background Global access to acute malnutrition treatment is low. Different programmes
using different nutritional products manage cases of severe acute malnutrition and moderate …

[HTML][HTML] Community-based management of severe acute malnutrition in India: new evidence from Bihar

S Burza, R Mahajan, E Marino, T Sunyoto… - The American journal of …, 2015 - Elsevier
Background: An estimated one-third of the world's children who are wasted live in India. In
Bihar state, of children< 5 y old, 27.1% are wasted and 8.3% have severe acute malnutrition …

[HTML][HTML] A simplified, combined protocol versus standard treatment for acute malnutrition in children 6–59 months (ComPAS trial): A cluster-randomized controlled non …

J Bailey, C Opondo, N Lelijveld, B Marron, P Onyo… - PLoS …, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Background Malnutrition underlies 3 million child deaths worldwide. Current treatments
differentiate severe acute malnutrition (SAM) from moderate acute malnutrition (MAM) with …

Ready‐to‐use therapeutic food (RUTF) for home‐based nutritional rehabilitation of severe acute malnutrition in children from six months to five years of age

A Schoonees, MJ Lombard… - Cochrane Database …, 2019 - cochranelibrary.com
Background Management of severe acute malnutrition (SAM) in children comprises two
potential phases: stabilisation and rehabilitation. During the initial stabilisation phase …

[HTML][HTML] Inpatient management of children with severe acute malnutrition: a review of WHO guidelines

KD Tickell, DM Denno - Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 2016 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
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 …

Severe acute malnutrition and its associated factors among children under-five years: a facility-based cross-sectional study

U Ghimire, BK Aryal, AK Gupta, S Sapkota - BMC pediatrics, 2020 - Springer
Background Despite consistent efforts to enhance child nutrition, poor nutritional status of
children continues to be a major public health problem in Nepal. This study identified the …