ArticleFrontiers in nutrition2023
Impact of a simplified treatment protocol for moderate acute malnutrition with a decentralized treatment approach in emergency settings of Niger.
Article in Frontiers in nutrition, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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- Dietary diversity and the triple burden of malnutrition among children aged 6-23 months in 62 low- and middle-income countries: an analysis of Demographic and Health Surveys.Journal of global health · 2026Article
- Reducing relapses after acute malnutrition treatment: evidence from a simplified approach in emergency settings of Mali.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- Socioeconomic Risk Factors Associated With Acute Malnutrition Severity Among Under-Five Children Based on a Machine Learning Approach: The Case of Rural Emergency Contexts in Niger and Mali.Maternal & child nutrition · 2025Article
- Acceptability of a Microbiome-Directed Food for the Management of Children with Uncomplicated Acute Malnutrition in Maradi, Niger: Two Randomized Crossover Trials.Current developments in nutrition · 2025Article
- Global emergency medicine: A scoping review of the literature from 2023.Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine · 2025Article
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- Effectiveness of acute malnutrition treatment with a simplified, combined protocol in Central African Republic: An observational cohort study.Maternal & child nutrition · 2024Observational
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Abstract
Introduction: Of the 45.4 million children under five affected by acute malnutrition in the world, the majority (31.8 million) are affected by moderate acute malnutrition (MAM). Its treatment is particularly complex in emergency settings such as the Diffa region in Niger. This study aims to evaluate the effectiveness and coverage of a simplified treatment protocol with Community Health Workers (CHWs) as treatment providers. Methods: This study is a non-randomized controlled trial. The control group ( Results: The recovery rate was higher in the simplified protocol group (99.6% vs. 79.56%, Conclusion: The outcomes using the simplified protocol exceeded humanitarian requirements and demonstrated improvements compared to the standard protocol showing that the simplified protocol could be safely provided by CHWs in an emergency context. Further research in other contexts is needed to scale up this intervention.
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