The current issue of Field Exchange of the Emergency Nutrition Network presents several topics which would be relevant to visitors of the IMTF website. These include Diluted F100 v infant formula in treatment of severely malnourished infants < 6 months Local and centralised therapeutic food production Probiotics and prebiotics for SAM in Malawi Fortified spreads […]
Israëls T, Borgstein E, Jamali M, de Kraker J, Caron HN, Molyneux EM. This study concluded that acute malnutrition, superimposed on chronic malnutrition, is common in patients with Wilms tumour in Malawi. Chiponde, a peanut butter based ready-to-use-therapeutic-food, is an attractive means of nutritional support which needs further study. The study included all new patients […]
Oshikoya KA, Senbanjo IO. In-spite of abundant literature on the epidemiology and management of Protein Endery Malnutrition (PEM), focus on metabolism and therapeutic drug monitoring is lacking. This review discussed the pathophysiological changes in children with PEM that may affect the disposition of drugs frequently used for their treatment. This review has established abnormal disposition […]
Guerrier G, Zounoun M, Delarosa O, Defourny I, Lacharite M, Brown V, Pedalino B. The study found a high mortality rate among Internally Displaced Persons and an elevated prevalence of wasting not only in IDP camps but also in villages located in the same region. The objective of the study was to assess mortality and […]
The Food and Nutrition Bulletin, vol 30, No 3 (2009) Supplement published in September, 2009, featured articles mainly on Managment of children with Moderate Malnutrition and other related topics. Find below topics of articles in this issue and link to the Food and Nutrition Bulletin website to access full articles. Dietary management of moderate malnutrition: […]
The Preventing Malnutrition in Children Under 2 Approach (PM2A) is a food-assisted approach to reducing the prevalence of child malnutrition by targeting a package of health and nutrition interventions to all pregnant women, mothers of children 0-23 months and children under 2 in food-insecure program areas, regardless of nutritional status. The Title II Technical Reference […]
The 19th International Congress of Nutrition was held in Bangkok Thailand from 4-9 October 2009 under the theme “Food Security for All”. It was the first to be held in Asia in 20 years and was attended by several thousand nutrition scientists from all over the world. The International Malnutrition Task Force (IMTF)of the International […]
Greenaway, Kate. Food by Prescription: A Landscape Paper. Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN). Geneva, Switzerland, 2009 Although HIV testing is increasingly available and efforts to support the nutritional needs of people living with HIV have intensified appreciably, antiretroviral therapy (ART) service providers continue to report large numbers of clients presenting with advanced disease and […]
A Workshop on Management of SAM Children through Medical Nutrition Therapy is being jointly organised in India by: All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Delhi, India Sitaram Bhartia Institute of Science and Research, New Delhi Indian Academy of Pediatrics, Sub-specialty Chapter on Nutrition For more information about the Workshop, please contact Prof. Umesh Kapil, Organizing […]
The International Malnutrition Task Force (IMTF) for the prevention and control of malnutrition was launched in September 2005 in Durban at the 18th International Congress of Nutrition Aims of the Task Force The aims of the Task Force are:- to establish three regional networks to coordinate technical expertise and develop capacity-building partnerships to raise the […]