Effect of Short-Term Supplementation with Ready-to-Use Therapeutic Food or Micronutrients for Children after Illness for Prevention of Malnutrition: A Randomised Controlled Trial in Uganda: e1001951

Background Globally, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) treats more than 300,000 severely malnourished children annually. Malnutrition is not only caused by lack of food but also by illnesses and by poor infant and child feeding practices. Breaking the vicious cycle of illness and malnutrition by provid...

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Published in:PLoS medicine 2016-02, Vol.13 (2)
Main Authors: Kam, Saskia vander, Roll, Stephanie, Swarthout, Todd, Edyegu-Otelu, Grace, Matsumoto, Akiko, Kasujja, Francis Xavier, Casademont, Cristian, Shanks, Leslie, Salse-Ubach, Nuria
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Children & youth
Confidence intervals
Diarrhea
Dietary minerals
Dietary supplements
Food
Infections
Malaria
Malnutrition
Medical research
Nutrition
Population
Researchers
Studies
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Summary:Background Globally, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) treats more than 300,000 severely malnourished children annually. Malnutrition is not only caused by lack of food but also by illnesses and by poor infant and child feeding practices. Breaking the vicious cycle of illness and malnutrition by providing ill children with nutritional supplementation is a potentially powerful strategy for preventing malnutrition that has not been adequately investigated. Therefore, MSF investigated whether incidence of malnutrition among ill children
ISSN:1549-1277
1549-1676
DOI:10.1371/journal.pmed.1001951