Zulfiqar A Bhutta, Tahmeed Ahmed, Robert E Black, Simon Cousens, Kathryn Dewey, Elsa Giugliani, Batool A Haider, Betty Kirkwood, Saul S Morris, HPS Sachdev, Meera Shekar This paper reviewed interventions that affect maternal and child undernutrition and nutrition-related outcomes. These interventions included promotion of breastfeeding; strategies to promote complementary feeding, with or without provision of […]
Cesar G Victora, Linda Adair, Caroline Fall, Pedro C Hallal, Reynaldo Martorell, Linda Richter, Harshpal Singh Sachdev A review of the associations between maternal and child undernutrition with human capital and risk of adult diseases in low-income and middle-income countries was done. Data from five long-standing prospective cohort studies from Brazil, Guatemala, India, the Philippines, […]
Black RE, Allen LH, Bhutta ZA, Caufield LE, de Onis M, Ezzati M, Mathers C, Rivera J Maternal and child undernutrition is highly prevalent in low-income and middle-income countries, resulting in substantial increases in mortality and overall disease burden. This paper presents new analyses to estimate the effects of the risks related to measures of […]
Bahwere P, Piwoz E, Joshua MC, Sadler K, Grobler-Tanner CH, Guerrero S, Collins S. In Malawi and other high HIV prevalence countries, studies suggest that more than 30% of all severely malnourished children admitted to inpatient nutrition rehabilitation units are HIV-infected. However, clinical algorithms designed to diagnose paediatric HIV are neither sensitive nor specific in […]
Sadler, K., Kerac, M., Collins, S., Khengere, H., Nesbitt, A. To assess the clinical outcomes of a combined approach to the treatment of severe acute malnutrition in an area of high HIV prevalence using: (i) an initial inpatient phase, based on WHO guidelines and (ii) an outpatient recovery phase using ready-to-use therapeutic food. Methods: An operational […]
Weisstaub, G., Araya, M. In Latin America and the Caribbean, malnutrition still represents a health concern expressed mainly as stunting and micronutrient deficiencies, lessening the attention given to acute malnutrition (moderate and severe); however, the latter has a high fatality rate. Ending these avoidable deaths represents a major health and ethical challenge in the region. […]
Berti, A., Bregani, E.R., Manenti, F., Pizzi, C. Malnutrition still has a dramatic impact on childhood mortality in sub-Saharan African countries. Very few studies have tried to evaluate the outcome of severely malnourished children treated according to the UNICEF 2004 guidelines and reported fatality rates are still very high. During 2006, 1635 children were admitted […]
Fergusson, P., Chinkhumba, J., Tomkins, A. The aim of the study was to determine the impact of HIV on nutritional recovery in severely malnourished children in Malawi. The study found that HIV-infected severely malnourished children gain and maintain weight as well as HIV-infected children. Abstract taken from Archives of Disease in Childhood: Methods: A cohort of 454 […]
Hoddinott, J., Maluccio, J.A., Behrman, J., Flores, R., Martorell, R. There is evidence to suggest that improving nutrition in early childhood in developing countries is a long-term economic investment. This study investigates the direct effect of a nutrition intervention in early childhood on adult economic productivity. Findings of the study provide powerful economic incentive for […]
In another randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, non-inferiority safety trial using a 2-mo course of daily iron Micronutrient Powder (MNP), or placebo powder (PP) conducted in 268 Bangladeshi children aged 12-24 mo with MAM (weight-for-age z score ≤ -2) and a hemoglobin concentration between 70 and 110 g/L, Lemaire and colleagues have reported that iron MNP is […]