Keyword: Community based therapeutic care (CTC)

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

Community-based Approaches to Managing Severe Malnutrition

A three day meeting was held in Dublin hosted by Concern and Valid International between 8-10th of October, 2003 on community-based treatment1 of the severely malnourished.

Issue 21, March 2004 (page 16)

Cost effectiveness of CMAM in Malawi

Summary of published research.

Issue 41, August 2011 (page 24)

Cost effectiveness of community-based and inpatient therapeutic feeding programmes to treat SAM in Ethiopia

Aretrospective study was recently conducted in SNNPR, Ethiopia to determine the average cost of treatment of a severely malnourished child in a therapeutic feeding centre (TFC) and in a community based therapeutic care (CTC) programme, to determine the effectiveness of TFC and CTC programmes as measured by the clinical outcomes, and to compare the cost effectiveness of the two approaches.

Issue 41, August 2011 (page 22)

Decentralisation and scale up of outpatient management of SAM in Ethiopia (2008-2010)

This article describes experiences and observations around the successful decentralisation and scale up of the outpatient management of severe acute malnutrition in Ethiopia in the period 2008 to 2010. It includes achievements, the challenges around monitoring and reporting and ongoing steps needed to strengthen and assure service quality.

Issue 40, February 2011 (page 39)

Éditorial (français)

Cette édition spéciale de Field Exchange consacrée aux « Leçons pour le déploiement de la prise en charge communautaire de la malnutrition aiguë (PCMA) » vise principalement à fournir des éclairages sur le déploiement de la PCMA d’un point de vue gouvernemental. Une grande partie de ce numéro porte en conséquence sur le déroulement de la conférence internationale sur les expériences gouvernementales en matière de déploiement de la PCMA qui s’est tenue à Addis-Abeba du 14 au 17 novembre 2011.

Issue 43, July 2012 (page 2)

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)

From the editor

This Field Exchange special issue on ‘Lessons for the scale up of Community-based Management of Acute Malnutrition (CMAM)’ mainly aims to provide some insights on scaling up CMAM from a government perspective. A large part of this edition is therefore taken up with the proceedings of an international conference on government experiences of CMAM scale up held in Addis Ababa, 14-17 November, 2011.

Issue 43, July 2012 (page 2)

Integrating OTP into routine health services CONCERN’s experiences

This article describes the history of an international non-governmental organisation (INGO)-implemented programme that evolved from an innovative emergency intervention into a longer-term initiative, to support the Ministry of Health (MoH) to integrate treatment services for Severe Acute Malnutrition (SAM) within the routine health system.

Issue 40, February 2011 (page 69)

Letter on inadequate coverage of SAM in Lancet Undernutrition Series, by Susan Shepherd

Letter.

Issue 33, June 2008 (page 24)

Quantitative and qualitative analysis of CTC programme coverage

Summary of published research.

Issue 39, September 2010 (page 19)

Review of CMAM in Ethiopia, Malawi and Niger

Summary of research.

Issue 33, June 2008 (page 11)

SQUEAC: Low resource method to evaluate access and coverage of programmes

Centric Systematic Area Sampling (CSAS) was developed to estimate coverage of selective feeding programmes.

Issue 33, June 2008 (page 3)

The CTC Advisory Service: Supporting the Countrywide Scale-up of CTC in Malawi

In response to a food shortage in 2002, Concern Worldwide and Valid International piloted a Community-based Therapeutic Care (CTC) project in two districts in Malawi.

Issue 35, March 2009 (page 18)

World Vision programme for severe acute malnutrition in SNNPR

World Vision Ethiopia (WVE) is a non-governmental organisation (NGO) that has been working in Ethiopia implementing crosssectoral relief, rehabilitation and development programmes since 1971.

Issue 40, February 2011 (page 53)