Assessment of the effectiveness of a small quantity lipid-based nutrient supplement on reducing anaemia and stunting in refugee populations in the Horn of Africa: Secondary data analysis

Stunting and micronutrient malnutrition are persistent public health problems in refugee populations. UNHCR and its partner organisations implement blanket supplementary feeding programmes using a range of special nutritional products as one approach to address these issues. The evidence base for th...

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Published in:PloS one 2017-06, Vol.12 (6), p.e0177556-e0177556
Main Authors: Style, Sarah, Tondeur, Melody, Grijalva-Eternod, Carlos, Pringle, Josephine, Kassim, Ismail, Wilkinson, Caroline, Oman, Allison, Dolan, Carmel, Spiegel, Paul, Seal, Andrew
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Africa - epidemiology
African refugees
Age
Analysis
Anemia
Anemia - diet therapy
Anemia - epidemiology
Anemia - pathology
Biology and Life Sciences
Camps
Categories
Child, Preschool
Children
Children & youth
Cross sections
Data analysis
Data processing
Dietary Supplements
Effectiveness
Feeding
Female
Food
Health aspects
Health problems
Hemoglobin
Hemoglobins
Human settlements
Humans
Infant
Intervention
Lipids
Lipids - therapeutic use
Malaria
Male
Malnutrition
Medicine and Health Sciences
Micronutrients - therapeutic use
Mortality
Nutrients
Nutrition
Nutrition Surveys
Nutritional Status
People and Places
Physical Sciences
Polls & surveys
Populations
Prevention
Public health
Reduction
Refugees
Research and Analysis Methods
Surveys
Vitamin A
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Summary:Stunting and micronutrient malnutrition are persistent public health problems in refugee populations. UNHCR and its partner organisations implement blanket supplementary feeding programmes using a range of special nutritional products as one approach to address these issues. The evidence base for the efficacy and effectiveness of a small quantity lipid-based nutrient supplement, Nutributter®, in reducing stunting and anaemia is limited. Secondary data analysis was used to assess the effectiveness of Nutributter® distribution on anaemia and stunting in children aged 6-23 months (programme target group) and 6-59 months (the standard age group sampled in routine nutrition surveys). Analysis was conducted using routine pre and post-intervention cross-sectional nutrition survey data collected between 2008-2011 in five refugee camps in Kenya and Djibouti. Changes in total anaemia (Haemoglobin
ISSN:1932-6203
1932-6203
DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0177556