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Should India use Commercially Produced Ready to use Therapeutic Foods (RUTF) for Severe Acute Malnutrition (SAM)

In India, 48% of children under five years of age are stunted and 43% are underweight: almost 8 million children suffer from Severe Acute Malnutrition. Dr Prasad and colleagues are of the view that “the current thinking – that a centrally produced and processed Ready to use Therapeutic Foods should supplant the locally prepared indigenous […]

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10th CAPGAN conference on diarrhoea and malnutrition

The conference is being hosted by Malawi College of Medicine and would be held at Blantyre, Malawi from the 12th-16th August 2009. There will be 3-full days of symposia, plenaries, workshops and debates on a variety of topics including HIV, malnutrition and paediatric disease, malnutrition and enteric disease, the Lancet Undernutrition series, review of 75 […]

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6th World Congress on Developmental Origins of Health and Disease

The 6th World Congress on Developmental Origins of Health and Disease has been announced. The International Society for the Developmental Origins of Health and Disease (DOHaD) is delighted to invite you to attend the 6th International Congress on Developmental Origins of Health & Disease, to be held at the Sheraton Hotel Convention Centre in Santiago, […]

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The 19th International Congress of Nutrition

The 19th International Congress of Nutrition themed Nutrition Security for all would take place in BITEC, Bangkok Thailand from 4-9 October 2009 The event hopes to bring together over 3000 nutrition scientists, practitioners and researchers from all over the world and will provide the highest quality scientific programme featuring internationally recognised speakers and experts in […]

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Working group set up to investigate severe malnutrition in HIV

An African-based working group now exists to examine the impact of the HIV virus on severely malnourished children. In Southern and Eastern Africa the Blantyre Working Group on the management of severely malnourished HIV-infected children was established in January 2007. This links experts in Malawi, Uganda, Kenya, Zambia, Tanzania and South Africa. The group advocate […]

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New online malnutrition training course

An electronic version of the WHO training course on the inpatient management of severe acute malnutrition has been developed by private company Microlink PC UK with the University of Southampton. The course is directed at doctors and senior health professionals and has been formally tested by paediatricians and nutritionists with experience in tropical paediatrics and […]

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Antibiotics in HIV areas: New guidance

Guidance on inpatient antibiotic treatment for severely malnourished children in areas of high HIV prevalence has been changed. It is recommended that places with high HIV prevalence adapt hospital-based practices accordingly. WHO, UNICEF and the IMTF held a technical review committee meeting in Geneva 28th-29th June 2007. The purpose of the meeting was to consider […]

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Nutritional status in children hospitalized in minimum care wards. Hospital de Niños de la Santísima Trinidad. Córdoba

Gomila AA, De Grandis ES, Visconti GB, Montero SB, Bertero MI, Marietti G, Crespo D, Pico AN, Bianchi M, Gomila H A. The prevalences of malnutrition and anaemia are high among the children admitted to Hospital de Niños de la Santísima Trinidad. Córdoba The objective of the present study was to describe the nutritional status […]

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Bolivia aims for zero malnutrition

The government of Bolivia has renewed its commitment to fight malnutrition by including the ‘zero malnutrition programme’ into its national development plan. The Zero malnutrition programme is a national campaign spearheaded by Ana Maria Aguilar from Instituto de Investigaciones en Salud y Desarrollo Facultad de Medicina Universidad Mayor de San Andres in La Paz. The […]

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Latin America unites to fight malnutrition

Leaders across Latin America met in March 2007 and renewed their commitment to fighting malnutrition in the region. The Andean Ministers of Health met in Bolivia in March 2007 and resolved that national programmes to eradicate malnutrition be established and given highest priority for policy, and that nutrition focal points of each country should meet […]

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