Abstracts of Malawi Conference on Diarrhoea and Malnutrition
The 10th Commonwealth Association of Paediatric Gastroentorologists and Nutritionists (CAPGAN) Conference on Diarrhoea and Malnutrition was held in Blantyre, Malawi from the 12-16 August 2009.
The conference brought together practitioners from around the Commonwealth to discuss child health.
The Abstracts for presentations made during the Conference included the following titles:
- Long-term follow-up of children treated for Severe Acute Malnutrition: A Longtitudinal Cohort Study
- Mortality A year after admission with HIV and Severe Acute Malntutrition (SAM) in Malawi: A cohort study
- Can Severe Acute Malnutrition Case Fatality Rate in HIV-infected children be reduced? Outcomes of a programme to improve management of SAM in Lea Toto Paediatric HIV services
- HIV prevalence and mortality among children undergoing treatment for SAM in sub-Saharan Africa: A systematic review and meta-analysis
Visitors of the IMTF website would find these abstracts very informative, full details of which can be downloaded from the Malawi Medical Journal website www.mmj.medcol.mw