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McConnell R, Roll S, van der Kam S, Shanks L, Venis S, et al.
2012 February 1
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PLOS One. 2012 April 25; Volume 7 (Issue 4); DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0035006
van der Kam S, Swarthout TD, Niragira O, Froud A, Sompwe EM, et al.
PLOS One. 2012 April 25; Volume 7 (Issue 4); DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0035006
Catch-up growth after an infection is essential for children to maintain good nutritional status. To prevent malnutrition, WHO recommends that children are given one additional healthy meal per day during the 2 weeks after onset of illness. We investigated to what extent ready-to-use therapeutic food (RUTF) promotes catch-up growth in children after an acute, uncomplicated episode of Plasmodium falciparum malaria.
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PLOS Med. 2016 February 9; Volume 13 (Issue 2); e1001952.; DOI:10.1371/journal.pmed.1001952
van der Kam S, Salse-Ubach N, Roll S, Swarthout TD, Gayton-Toyoshima S, et al.
PLOS Med. 2016 February 9; Volume 13 (Issue 2); e1001952.; DOI:10.1371/journal.pmed.1001952
Globally, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) treats more than 300,000 severely malnourished children annually. Malnutrition is not only caused by lack of food but also by illnesses and by poor infant and child feeding practices. Breaking the vicious cycle of illness and malnutrition by providing ill children with nutritional supplementation is a potentially powerful strategy for preventing malnutrition that has not been adequately investigated. Therefore, MSF investigated whether incidence of malnutrition among ill children <5 y old could be reduced by providing a fortified food product or micronutrients during their 2-wk convalescence period. Two trials, one in Nigeria and one in Uganda, were conducted; here, we report on the trial that took place in Kaabong, a poor agropastoral region of Karamoja, in east Uganda. While the region of Karamoja shows an acute malnutrition rate between 8.4% and 11.5% of which 2% to 3% severe malnutrition, more than half (58%) of the population in the district of Kaabong is considered food insecure.
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PLOS Med. 2016 February 9; Volume 13 (Issue 2); DOI:10.1371/journal.pmed.1001951
van der Kam S, Roll S, Swarthout TD, Edyegu-Otelu G, Matsumoto A, et al.
PLOS Med. 2016 February 9; Volume 13 (Issue 2); DOI:10.1371/journal.pmed.1001951
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 feeding practices but also by illnesses. Breaking the vicious cycle of illness and malnutrition by providing ill children with nutritional supplementation is a potentially powerful strategy for preventing malnutrition that has not been adequately investigated. Therefore, MSF investigated whether incidence of malnutrition among ill children <5 y old could be reduced by providing a fortified food product or micronutrients during their 2-wk convalescence period. Two trials, one in Nigeria and one in Uganda, were conducted; here we report on the trial that took place in Goronyo, a rural region of northwest Nigeria with high morbidity and malnutrition rates.