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WHO/UNICEF/WFP Interim guideline: Nutritional Care of Children and Adults with Ebola Virus Disease in Treatment Centres
This interim guideline provides recommendations on nutritional support to adults and paediatric patients in Ebola treatment unit (ETUs)...
Understanding malnutrition and health choices at the community level in Sierra Leone - ODI report
This research is part of the Secure Livelihoods Research Consortium (SLRC) research programme in Sierra Leone, which is concerned with ...
The effectiveness of blanket supplementary feeding programmes in preventing acute malnutrition Evidence from research carried out in Chad: ENN Briefing Paper
This Briefing note has been prepared to summarise and rapidly convey the findings from research carried out in Chad into the effectiven...
Technical Briefing Paper: The relationship between wasting and stunting: policy, programming and research implications (2014)
This paper is a narrative review of the available literature on the relationship between wasting and stunting. It was born out of prev...
Production of Ready-to-Use Food (RUF): An overview of the steps and challenges involved in the “local” production of RUF
Over the past decade Community-based Management of Acute Malnutrition (CMAM) has been adopted by over 60 countries to help treat acute ...
Perspectives for integration into the local health system of community-based management of acute malnutrition in children under 5 years: a qualitative study in Bangladesh
Abstract Background: Acute malnutrition is a major cause of death among under-five children in low- and middle-income countries. Unite...
Linking Nutrition & (integrated) Community Case Management A review of operational experiences
There are multiple converging and competing points of view on whether and how best to link iCCM and nutrition interventions. The objec...
Kwashiorkor: still an enigma – the search must go on
In its original description, kwashiorkor was presented as a full clinical syndrome, seen mainly in children under the age of 2 years fe...
HTP v 2 Module 6: Measuring malnutrition: individual assessment of acute malnutrition
The Harmonised Training Package (HTP) is a primarily a resource for trainers in the Nutrition in Emergencies (NiE) sector and it can be...