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2025-02-03 • Lancet Global Health
2025-02-03 • Lancet Global Health
Conference Material
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2023-06-07 • MSF Scientific Day International 2023
2023-06-07 • MSF Scientific Day International 2023
Conference Material
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2021-05-18 • MSF Scientific Days International 2021: Research
2021-05-18 • MSF Scientific Days International 2021: Research
Conference Material
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2022-05-09 • MSF Scientific Days International 2022
2022-05-09 • MSF Scientific Days International 2022
Journal Article
|Research
2016-03-01 • PLOS Medicine
2016-03-01 • PLOS Medicine
Ebola virus disease (EVD) is a highly lethal condition for which no specific treatment has proven efficacy. In September 2014, while the Ebola outbreak was at its peak, the World Health ...
Journal Article
|Research
2012-08-04 • Appetite
2012-08-04 • Appetite
Few studies have looked at consumption of Ready-to-Use-Supplementary-Foods (RUSFs) during a nutritional emergency. Here, we describe the use and acceptability of RUSF within households i...
Journal Article
|Research
2012-11-26 • PLOS One
2012-11-26 • PLOS One
BACKGROUND
In therapeutic feeding programs (TFP), mid-upper arm circumference (MUAC) shows advantages over weight-for-height Z score (WHZ) and is recommended by the World Health Orga...
In therapeutic feeding programs (TFP), mid-upper arm circumference (MUAC) shows advantages over weight-for-height Z score (WHZ) and is recommended by the World Health Orga...
Journal Article
|Research
2017-09-11 • PLOS Medicine
2017-09-11 • PLOS Medicine
Children with moderate acute malnutrition (MAM) are treated with lipid-based nutrient supplement (LNS) or corn-soy blend (CSB). We assessed the effectiveness of (a) matrix, i.e., LNS or ...
Journal Article
|Research
2020-08-06 • Scientific Reports
2020-08-06 • Scientific Reports
Children with moderate acute malnutrition (MAM) are treated based on low weight-for-length z-score (WLZ), low mid-upper arm circumference (MUAC) or both. This study aimed to assess assoc...
Conference Material
|Abstract
2021-05-19 • MSF Scientific Days International 2021: Research
2021-05-19 • MSF Scientific Days International 2021: Research
INTRODUCTION
The Optimising MAlnutrition treatment (OptiMA) strategy aims to simplify current malnutrition treatment protocols for children with mid-upper arm circumference (MUAC)<12...
The Optimising MAlnutrition treatment (OptiMA) strategy aims to simplify current malnutrition treatment protocols for children with mid-upper arm circumference (MUAC)<12...
Journal Article
|Letter
2017-10-17 • Lancet
2017-10-17 • Lancet
The 2013-16 Ebola virus disease outbreak in west Africa was associated with unprecedented challenges in the provision of care to patients with Ebola virus disease, including absence of p...
Journal Article
|Research
2009-01-01 • BMC Pediatrics
2009-01-01 • BMC Pediatrics
OBJECTIVE: The objective of our study was to assess the impact of adopting the World Health Organization growth standards and weight-for-height z-score criterion on the response to treat...
Journal Article
|Research
2016-01-06 • American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
2016-01-06 • American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
BACKGROUND
The management of children with moderate acute malnutrition (MAM) is based on food supplementation in outpatient programs. When midupper arm circumference (MUAC) is used a...
The management of children with moderate acute malnutrition (MAM) is based on food supplementation in outpatient programs. When midupper arm circumference (MUAC) is used a...
Conference Material
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2021-05-18 • MSF Scientific Days International 2021: Research
2021-05-18 • MSF Scientific Days International 2021: Research
Conference Material
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2020-05-26 • MSF Scientific Days International 2020
2020-05-26 • MSF Scientific Days International 2020
INTRODUCTION
The Optimizing Treatment for Acute Malnutrition (OptiMA) strategy trains mothers to use mid-upper arm circumference (MUAC) bracelets for screening, and targets treatment...
The Optimizing Treatment for Acute Malnutrition (OptiMA) strategy trains mothers to use mid-upper arm circumference (MUAC) bracelets for screening, and targets treatment...
Journal Article
|Research
2021-01-26 • medRxiv
2021-01-26 • medRxiv
Background We present results from an intervention case study, the Soins Preventifs de l’Enfant (SPE) project, in Konséguéla health area, Mali. The intervention involved a network of com...
Journal Article
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2009-05-06 • PLOS One
2009-05-06 • PLOS One
BACKGROUND: There are 146 million underweight children in the developing world, which contribute to up to half of the world's child deaths. In high burden regions for malnutrition, the t...
Journal Article
|Research
2017-07-13 • Nutrition Journal
2017-07-13 • Nutrition Journal
BACKGROUND
Severe acute malnutrition (SAM) has been associated with low polyunsaturated fatty acid (PUFA) status. However, investigations regarding PUFA status and correlates in chil...
Severe acute malnutrition (SAM) has been associated with low polyunsaturated fatty acid (PUFA) status. However, investigations regarding PUFA status and correlates in chil...
Conference Material
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2021-05-19 • MSF Scientific Days International 2021: Research
2021-05-19 • MSF Scientific Days International 2021: Research
Journal Article
|Research
2016-08-30 • BMC Nutrition
2016-08-30 • BMC Nutrition
Morbidity plays an important role in the development of and recovery from malnutrition. Morbidity in children with moderate acute malnutrition (MAM) has not been described in detail and ...