2025-12-01 • American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
2025-12-01 • American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
BACKGROUND
Community-based treatment of acute malnutrition saves lives, but recovered children remain at risk of relapse postdischarge. Strategies to reduce thi...
Molina-de la Fuente I, Sagrado Benito MJ, Lasry E, Ousley J, García L, et al.
2023-11-10 • Malaria Journal
2023-11-10 • Malaria Journal
BACKGROUND Seasonal malaria chemoprevention (SMC) using sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine plus amodiaquine (SP-AQ), is a community-based malaria preventive strategy commonly used in the Sahe...
Pedrero-Tomé R, Marrodán MD, López-Ejeda N, Escruela M, Rocaspana M, et al.
2023-10-23 • Frontiers in Nutrition
2023-10-23 • Frontiers in Nutrition
BACKGROUND Niger, relevant in light of current political coup, is one of the countries with the worst human development indicators, characterized by high fertility rates and extremel...
CONTEXT The Paediatric Early Warning System (PEWS) is a clinical monitoring tool used routinely in emergency and observation rooms to detect rapid deterioration in paediatric patient...
Burza S, Mahajan R, Marino E, Sunyoto T, Shandilya C, et al.
2015-09-02 • European Journal of Clinical Nutrition
2015-09-02 • European Journal of Clinical Nutrition
BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES Children aged 6 months to 5 years completing treatment for severe acute malnutrition (SAM) in a Médecins Sans Frontières Community Management of Acute Malnutrit...
van der Kam S, Roll S, Swarthout TD, Edyegu-Otelu G, Matsumoto A, et al.
2016-02-09 • PLOS Medicine
2016-02-09 • PLOS Medicine
Globally, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) treats more than 300,000 severely malnourished children annually. Malnutrition is not only caused by lack of food and poor infant and child feedi...
Baxter LM, McGowan CR, Smiley S, Palacios L, Devine C, et al.
2022-11-05 • Lancet
2022-11-05 • Lancet
The climate emergency is a humanitarian and health crisis. Extreme weather events, heat stress, declining air quality, changes in water quality and quantity, declining food security and ...
Molina-de la Fuente I, Benito MJS, Flevaud L, Ousley J, Pasquale HA, et al.
2023-01-01 • Emerging Infectious Diseases
2023-01-01 • Emerging Infectious Diseases
Pfhrp2 and pfhrp3 gene deletions threaten the use of Plasmodium falciparum malaria rapid diagnostic tests globally. In South Sudan, deletion frequencies were 15.6% for pfhrp2, 20.0% for ...