Issue 28 / English
Editorials
- Issue 28 Editorial (page 1)
Field Articles
- Scaling up the treatment of acute childhood malnutrition in Niger (page 2)
- Delivering Supplementary and Therapeutic Feeding in Darfur: coping with Insecurity (page 9)
- Home treatment for severe malnutrition in South Sudan (page 17)
- Locally produced RUTF in a hospital setting in Uganda (page 21)
- The Pakistan Earthquake Survey: Methodological Lessons Learned (page 25)
Evaluations
- Evaluation of Dafur Early Warning and Food Information System (page 19)
- Evaluation of use of IFE training materials (page 20)
Research
- Early initiation of breastfeeding reduces neonatal mortality (page 5)
- Experience-based measure of household food insecurity (page 5)
- Excess dietary iodine in long-term African refugees (page 6)
- Iron and vitamin A deficiency in African refugees (page 6)
- Critical gaps in drought response in Greater Horn of Africa (page 7)
- Market-based contracts protect against price rises in Malawi alliance initiative (page 7)
- USAID in public-private alliance initiative (page 8)
- Revisiting ‘new variant famine’ in southern Africa (page 9)
Agency Profiles
- Lutheran Development Services (page 24)
News & Views
- International Food and Nutrition Security Course 2007 (page 13)
- Revised Operational Guidance on IFE (page 13)
- WHO meeting report on community-based management of severe malnutrition (page 13)
- Improved formula for WHO oral rehydration salts (page 14)
- New Classification Tool Integrating Food Security and Humanitarian Action (page 14)
- Orientation workshop on IFE (page 14)
- New WHO growth standards (page 15)
Letters
People in Aid
- People in Aid (issue 28) (page 28)
Cartoons
- Pandamonium (issue 28) (page 30)
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This issue of Field Exchange features four field articles about community based therapeutic care of the severely malnourished, a type of programming that is increasingly being rolled out by humanitarian agencies.
The article by Josephine Querubin from ACF-USA is about a home based treatment (HT) programme in Upper Nile and Bahr el Ghazal in southern Sudan, introduced following drought and a large returnee influx. HT was adopted as previous experiences of using the centre based therapeutic feeding model had been poor with high defaulter rates and low coverage. Although the HT programme appears to have been very successful, it was reliant upon a large network of home visitors for screening and referrals so that maintaining a large cadre of field staff working under arduous circumstances and difficult terrain was a significant challenge.