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2025-05-01 • Advances in Nutrition
2025-05-01 • Advances in Nutrition
Multiple micronutrient supplements (MMSs) in pregnancy reduces risk of infant low birthweight (LBW) and improves other maternal and infant outcom...
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2024-02-26 • BMJ Nutrition, Prevention & Health
2024-02-26 • BMJ Nutrition, Prevention & Health
INTRODUCTION
Current guidelines for the outpatient treatment of severe acute malnutrition (SAM) recommend the provision of routine medications to all children at admission and prescr...
Current guidelines for the outpatient treatment of severe acute malnutrition (SAM) recommend the provision of routine medications to all children at admission and prescr...
Journal Article
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2023-10-19 • Lancet Microbe
2023-10-19 • Lancet Microbe
BACKGROUND
Children with severe acute malnutrition are treated with antibiotics as outpatients. We aimed to determine the effect of 7 days of amoxicillin on acute and long-term chang...
Children with severe acute malnutrition are treated with antibiotics as outpatients. We aimed to determine the effect of 7 days of amoxicillin on acute and long-term chang...
Journal Article
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2023-06-01 • Public Health Nutrition
2023-06-01 • Public Health Nutrition
OBJECTIVE
To compare the prognostic value of mid-upper arm circumference (MUAC), weight-for-height Z-score (WHZ) and weight-for-age Z-score (WAZ) for predicting death over periods of...
To compare the prognostic value of mid-upper arm circumference (MUAC), weight-for-height Z-score (WHZ) and weight-for-age Z-score (WAZ) for predicting death over periods of...
Journal Article
|Review
2023-05-01 • JAMA Network Open
2023-05-01 • JAMA Network Open
IMPORTANCE
Children treated for acute malnutrition remain at increased risk of relapse, infection, and mortality after programmatic recovery. Global guidelines for the management of ...
Children treated for acute malnutrition remain at increased risk of relapse, infection, and mortality after programmatic recovery. Global guidelines for the management of ...
Journal Article
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2023-02-03 • Public Health Nutrition
2023-02-03 • Public Health Nutrition
OBJECTIVE
To understand which anthropometric diagnostic criteria best discriminate higher from lower risk of death in children and explore programme implications.
DESIGN
To understand which anthropometric diagnostic criteria best discriminate higher from lower risk of death in children and explore programme implications.
DESIGN
Journal Article
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2022-12-09 • PLOS Global Public Health
2022-12-09 • PLOS Global Public Health
Severe acute malnutrition (SAM) is a major source of mortality for children in low resource settings. Alternative treatment models that improve acceptability and reduce caregiver burden ...
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2022-10-05 • BMJ Open
2022-10-05 • BMJ Open
OBJECTIVES
To evaluate the cost-effectiveness of alternative rotavirus vaccines in Niger, using UNIVAC, a proportionate outcomes model.
SETTING
The study leverages globa...
To evaluate the cost-effectiveness of alternative rotavirus vaccines in Niger, using UNIVAC, a proportionate outcomes model.
SETTING
The study leverages globa...
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2022-08-03 • Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation
2022-08-03 • Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation
BACKGROUND
In the outpatient management of severe wasting, routine antibiotic therapy is recommended for all children upon admission regardless of whether clinical signs of infection...
In the outpatient management of severe wasting, routine antibiotic therapy is recommended for all children upon admission regardless of whether clinical signs of infection...
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2022-07-21 • Maternal and Child Nutrition
2022-07-21 • Maternal and Child Nutrition
This study aimed to quantify the burden of relapse following successful treatment for uncomplicated severe acute malnutrition (SAM) and to identify associated risk factors in rural Niger...
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2017-04-12 • American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
2017-04-12 • American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
BACKGROUND
Community-based management of severe acute malnutrition (SAM) has been shown to be safe and cost-effective, but program coverage remains low. Treatment models that maintai...
Community-based management of severe acute malnutrition (SAM) has been shown to be safe and cost-effective, but program coverage remains low. Treatment models that maintai...
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2019-07-01 • BMC Nutrition
2019-07-01 • BMC Nutrition
Background
In food insecure settings, it may be difficult for pregnant women to meet increased nutritional needs through traditional diets. A promising new strategy to fill nutrient...
In food insecure settings, it may be difficult for pregnant women to meet increased nutritional needs through traditional diets. A promising new strategy to fill nutrient...
Journal Article
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2016-07-14 • New England Journal of Medicine
2016-07-14 • New England Journal of Medicine
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2018-07-03 • Population Health Metrics
2018-07-03 • Population Health Metrics
Many health programs can assess coverage using standardized cluster survey methods, but estimating the coverage of nutrition programs presents a special challenge due to low disease prev...
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2021-10-08 • Public Health Nutrition
2021-10-08 • Public Health Nutrition
OBJECTIVE
The Three Delays Model is a conceptual model traditionally used to understand contributing factors of maternal mortality. It posits that most barriers to health services ut...
The Three Delays Model is a conceptual model traditionally used to understand contributing factors of maternal mortality. It posits that most barriers to health services ut...
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2021-08-10 • PLOS Medicine
2021-08-10 • PLOS Medicine
BACKGROUND
Nutritional status may play a role in infant immune development. To identify potential boosters of immunogenicity in low-income countries where oral vaccine efficacy is lo...
Nutritional status may play a role in infant immune development. To identify potential boosters of immunogenicity in low-income countries where oral vaccine efficacy is lo...
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2018-09-14 • Clinical Infectious Diseases
2018-09-14 • Clinical Infectious Diseases
BACKGROUND
The relationship between malaria infection and nutritional status is complex. Previous studies suggest malaria may increase the incidence and severity of malnutrition, whi...
The relationship between malaria infection and nutritional status is complex. Previous studies suggest malaria may increase the incidence and severity of malnutrition, whi...
Conference Material
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2021-05-18 • MSF Scientific Days International 2021: Research
2021-05-18 • MSF Scientific Days International 2021: Research
Journal Article
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2021-08-12 • BMC Nutrition
2021-08-12 • BMC Nutrition
BACKGROUND
The World Health Organization recommends the use of a weight-for-height Z-score (WHZ) and/or mid-upper arm circumference (MUAC) as anthropometric criteria for the admissio...
The World Health Organization recommends the use of a weight-for-height Z-score (WHZ) and/or mid-upper arm circumference (MUAC) as anthropometric criteria for the admissio...
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2022-03-01 • PLOS Medicine
2022-03-01 • PLOS Medicine
BACKGROUND
Community-based management of severe acute malnutrition (SAM) involves weekly or biweekly outpatient clinic visits for clinical surveillance and distribution of therapeuti...
Community-based management of severe acute malnutrition (SAM) involves weekly or biweekly outpatient clinic visits for clinical surveillance and distribution of therapeuti...