July 2019
Issue 60 / English
Editorials
- Editorial (page 1)
- Editorial perspective on the continuum of care for children with acute malnutrition (page 2)
Field Articles
- World Vision’s Positive Deviance/Hearth programme: multi-country experiences (page 11)
- Implementation of the Expanded Admission Criteria (EAC) for acute malnutrition in Somalia: interim lessons learned (page 15)
- Scaling-up of care for children with acute malnutrition during emergency nutrition response in South Sudan between 2014 and 2018 (page 73)
- Enhancing the effectiveness of a community-based management of acute malnutrition programme in Zambia (page 78)
- Continuum of care for children with wasting in India: Opportunities for an integrated approach (page 82)
- Simplified approaches to treat acute malnutrition: Insights and reflections from MSF and lessons from experiences in NE Nigeria (page 91)
- Addressing acute malnutrition in Cameroon during an emergency: Results and benefits of an integrated prevention programme (page 96)
- UNHCR experiences of enabling continuity of acute malnutrition care in the East, Horn of Africa and Great Lakes region (page 101)
Evaluations
Research
- ComPAS trial in South Sudan and Kenya: Headline findings and experiences (page 19)
- Using MUAC to predict and avoid negative outcomes in CMAM programmes: Work inspired by en-net (page 23)
- Continuity of information in nutrition interventions in India: Experiences from Jharkhand (page 26)
- Substandard discharge rules in current severe acute malnutrition management protocols: An overlooked source of ineffectiveness for programmes? (page 29)
- Regional perspectives on simplified approaches for the management of children with acute malnutrition: West and Central Africa (page 33)
- Testing an adapted severe acute malnutrition treatment protocol in Somalia (page 36)
- Factors affecting decision-making on use of combined/simplified acute malnutrition protocols in Niger, north-east Nigeria, Somalia and South Sudan (page 38)
- OptiMA study in Burkina Faso: Emerging findings and additional insights (page 40)
- Treatment of moderate acute malnutrition using food products or counselling: A systematic review (page 43)
- MAM and SAM cases reduced through a stunting prevention programme in Malawi and the associated costs averted (page 46)
- Comparison of treatment of severe acute malnutrition with ready-to-use therapeutic food and ready-to-use-supplementary food: Research plans in Pakistan (page 50)
- Implementation of a field study of body composition among infants and young children in sub-Saharan Africa (page 52)
- Bottleneck analysis for the integrated management of acute malnutrition services in Somalia (page 56)
- Management of severe acute malnutrition by community health workers: Early results of Action Against Hunger research (page 61)
- Defining and treating “high-risk” moderate acute malnutrition using expanded admission criteria (Hi-MAM Study): A cluster-randomised controlled trial protocol (page 64)
- Longitudinal patterns of wasting and stunting – new analysis by the Knowledge Integration (KI) initiative (page 66)
- SAM and MAM programming in East and West Africa: An insight into continuum of service provision for acute malnutrition treatment (page 67)
- Modelling an alternative nutrition protocol generalisable to outpatient (MANGO) study (page 72)
- Programmatic approaches for nutritional care in India: Perspectives on continuum of care (page 72)
Postscripts
- Protocol adaptations to deal with programme realities: UNICEF Nigeria perspective (page 95)
- The USAID experience of advocating to employ the expanded admission criteria in Nigeria (page 95)
News & Views
- Bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA) in the management of acute malnutrition (page 86)
- SCOPE CODA: World Food Programme innovation to improve data management in malnutrition treatment (page 86)
- Consultation on wasting in Asia to build the evidence base (page 87)
- Previous Field Exchange content on continuum of acute malnutrition care (page 87)
- No Wasted Lives Coalition launch Community of Practice on simplified approaches to acute malnutrition treatment (page 88)
- “There are MAMs, then there are MAMs” (page 89)
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Welcome to the 60th edition of Field Exchange – a special edition on the continuum of care (CoC) for children with acute malnutrition. Access this rich body of material including:
- Extended editorial to facilitate collective learning
- Simplified approaches to treatment MSF Nigeria
- UNICEF WFP joint approach in South Sudan
- Expanded admission criteria in Somalia
- MAM treatment through BSFP in Cameroon
- UNHCR experiences of CoC in East Africa
- CoC for wasted children in India
- Multiple research protocols and findings