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EXCERPTS FROM THE PAPER Severe acute malnutrition (SAM) can have high mortality, especially in very ill children treated in the hospital. Many medical and nursing schools do not adequately, if at all, teach how to manage children with SAM. There is a dearth of experienced practitioners and trainers to serve as exemplars of good practice […]
The review found that WASH interventions reduced risk of diarrhoea in children in LMICs. Interventions supplying either water filtered at POU, higher water quality from an improved source on premises, or basic sanitation services with sewer connection were associated with increased reductions. Rear full paper.
The International Malnutrition Task Force (IMTF) of the International Union of Nutritional Sciences was set up as an advocacy and capacity-building initiative in 2005 at a time when malnutrition contributed to 60% of deaths among children under-five, and when a reduction in under-five mortality by two-thirds had been set as Millennium Development Goal 4. By forging […]
WFP marks this year’s African Day of School Feeding with a launch of its flagship report State of School Feeding Worldwide 2020. The report uses the best available data sources to describe the coverage, implementation practices and costs of school-based health and nutrition programmes worldwide. The 2020 also reports the direction and scale of change […]
Dear Colleague Your most popular malnutrition elearning course has been reimplemented to enable continued usage across the globe. The new url for the course is http://www.med.soton.ac.uk/nutrition/NewMaleL.html. You can also use this link to access the course. Send the link to colleagues, students and your contacts who may be interested.
The International Union of Nutrition Sciences established a formal task force in 2018, The International Collaboration on Nutrition in relation to Cancer (ICONIC) in order to promote and facilitate collaboration between the scientific communities engaged in nutrition and cancer in research, education and training, and in clinical or public health practice. ICONIC is comprised of […]
Excerpts from the Abstract This review summarizes findings from a total of 42 studies (48 papers), including 35,017 children and reported some benefit of integrated community-based screening, identification, and management of SAM and MAM on improving recovery rate. The authors also found that facility-based screening and management of uncomplicated SAM has no effect on recovery […]
A new study has found that F-100 can be safely used in the rehabilitation phase for infants under 6 months with SAM and there is no need to prepare alternative formulations. In a double-blind randomized clinical trial conducted to assess the efficacy and safety of F-100, F-100D, and IF at the Nutrition Rehabilitation Unit, icddr,b, […]
Malnutrition eLearning is an interactive, contextualised and media-rich course. Since its launch in 2011 to spring 2018, the malnutrition eLearning had been used by over 17,000 health professionals and students from more than 120 countries. The course had to be reimplemented in 2018 since the technologies used in developing it were becoming obsolete. The revised […]
WHO Anthro Survey Analyser has been updated – it now includes data quality assessment feature and is available online and offline. You can access WHO Anthro Survey Analyser here