Keyword: Outpatient treatment programmes

For more related articles, please see the category Treatment of severe malnutrition.

CTC Approach (Special Supplement 2)

Community Therapeutic Care (CTC) is a community-based model for delivering care to malnourished people. CTC seeks to provide fast, effective and cost efficient assistance in a manner that empowers the affected communities and creates a platform for longer-term solutions to the problems of food security and public health.

Supplement 2, November 2004 (page 6)

Effectiveness of Integrated Outpatient Care of Severe Acute Malnutrition in Ethiopia

Community-based management of acute malnutrition (CMAM) has been implemented in Ethiopia by various non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in response to emergencies.

Issue 34, October 2008 (page 8)

Impact of community mobilisation activities in Uganda

In July 2006, ACF-USA implemented an out-patient programme for the treatment of severely malnourished children in the main internally displaced people (IDP) camps of the districts of Lira and Apac, Northern Uganda.

Issue 34, October 2008 (page 15)

Letter on community mobilisation in outpatient management of severe malnutrition, by Saul Guerrero and Steve Collins

Letters.

Issue 29, December 2006 (page 37)

Management of moderate acute malnutrition with RUTF in Niger

Between 2001 and 2005, the Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) therapeutic feeding programme in Maradi.

Issue 31, September 2007 (page 3)

Outpatient therapeutic programme (OTP): an evaluation of a new SC UK venture in North Darfur, Sudan (2001)

Summary of internal evaluation by Anna Taylor (headquarters nutrition advisor for SC UK).

Issue 16, August 2002 (page 26)

Scaling up the treatment of acute childhood malnutrition in Niger

This article presents a strong case from Niger that managing severe malnutrition on a large scale through outpatient treatment is a real possibility.

Issue 28, July 2006 (page 3)