C-MAMI tool now out

Resource: C-MAMI Tool, Version 1 (2015)

The C-MAMI Tool provides a health worker with a format to assess, identify/classify and manage uncomplicated acute malnutrition in infants < 6 months of age in the community...

Management of Acute Malnutrition in Infants under six months (MAMI)

Donors: OFDA, Irish Aid Collaborators: LSHTM, University of Washington, KEMRI, WHO, UNHCR, UNICEF, Save the Children, ACF, Goal and independent experts. ENN project lead:...

FEX: MAMI Interest Group meeting

On 27th January 2016, ENN, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) and Save the Children co-hosted a one day meeting of a Management of Acute Malnutrition in...

FEX: Improving community management of uncomplicated acute malnutrition in infants under six months (C-MAMI): Developing a checklist version of the C-MAMI tool

Summary of MSc project report1 By Sonja Read Sonja Read is a public health nutritionist from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. She has previously worked in...

MAMI Report 2010

Donor: IASC Global Nutrition Cluster Collaborators: ENN/UCL-CIHD/ACF ENN Project lead: Marie McGrath Lead researcher: Marko Kerac (UCL) Timeframe: January 2008 to February...

FEX: Full MAMI report now available

The full report of the Management of Acute Malnutrition in Infants<6 months (MAMI) Project - MAMI Project. Technical Review: Current evidence, policies, practices &...

'Community engagement: the ‘C’ at the heart of CMAM' news

The CMAM Froum and Anthrologica release a new technical brief, 'Community engagement: the 'C' at the heart of CMAM' to summarise evidence and good practice on community...

MAMI CHNRI paper Plos Med

A new paper has been published in Plos Med by Angood et al, entitled "Research Priorities to Improve the Management of Acute Malnutrition in Infants Aged Less Than Six...

ACF link causal analysis tool

A website is now available for ACF's nutritional causal analysis tool, Link-NCA, a mixed method to identify the most relevant factors leading to under-nutrition in a local...

New global indicator women's dietary diversity

A new global indicator to measure women's dietary diversity was endorsed at a FANTA and FAO meeting in July. The indicator can be generated from surveys and provides a new...

MSF MUAC paper

New paper out by MSF: 'Assessing the prevalence of malnutrition in tribal children using MUAC as a screening tool' by Mohtashim A. Qureshi et al. Available from F1000...

Resource: MAMI Project - summary

Material from the 4 day strategy workshop 'Infant and Young Child Feeding in Emergencies: Regional Experiences and Challenges in Achieving Optimal Early Response', held in...

NEX: Perceptions of severe acute malnutrition and its management in infants under six months of age: An exploratory study in Bangladesh

Yasir Arafat1is a medical doctor and public health practitioner, managing community-based nutrition programmes targeting acute malnutrition. He is currently working with Save...

FEX: MAMI-2 research prioritization – call for collaborators

In January 2010, the report of ‘The Management of Acute Malnutrition in Infants aged <6 months’ (the MAMI project)1 was released. Key findings included: Large numbers of...

en-net: Assessment of infants under 6 months in survey

Dear MAMI users,
Please see exchange happening in the assessment thematic area regarding assessment of infants under 6 months in survey context:

FEX: Development and pilot testing of the Maternal Opportunities for Making Change (MOM-C) screening tool

By Scott Ickes and Alex Lea Scott Ickes is Assistant Professor at the College of William and Mary Department of Kinesiology and Health Sciences, Williamsburg, VA, USA Alex...

Standards of evidence for MAM research

The CMAM Forum has recently put out a paper on 'Standards of evidence for research on 'what works' in the management of MAM' by Dr Patrick Webb. Click here to...

en-net: MAMI 2 Project Survey

The MAMI 2 project (Management of Acute Malnutrition in Infants < 6 months) is administering a survey. Would you take part? Infants < 6 months with acute malnutrition are...

Resource: Meeting Report: Management of Acute Malnutrition in Infants under 6 months (MAMI) Interest Group Meeting

The meeting was co-hosted by ENN, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) and Save the Children as part of an ongoing collaboration on management of acute...

Malnutrition - persisting global threat to food insecurity

A new paper is published in the International Journal of Health Sciences and Research 'Malnutrition - the persisting global threat due to food insecurity'.