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While progress has been made over recent decades towards addressing the global problem of undernutrition in children and mothers, there continues to be a high burden of severe malnutrition in the populations of low- and middle-income countries. In an Editorial, Zulfiqar Bhutta discusses prevention and treatment strategies for optimization of community-based management of severe acute malnutrition in children, contextualizing the findings of an accompanying research article by Matt Hitchings and co-workers reporting on a cluster-randomized trial carried out in Nigeria, which investigated follow-up schedules for treatment of severe acute malnutrition.
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Citation: (2022) PLoS Medicine Issue Image | Vol. 19(3) March 2022. PLoS Med 19(3): ev19.i03. https://doi.org/10.1371/image.pmed.v19.i03
Published: March 31, 2022
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While progress has been made over recent decades towards addressing the global problem of undernutrition in children and mothers, there continues to be a high burden of severe malnutrition in the populations of low- and middle-income countries. In an Editorial, Zulfiqar Bhutta discusses prevention and treatment strategies for optimization of community-based management of severe acute malnutrition in children, contextualizing the findings of an accompanying research article by Matt Hitchings and co-workers reporting on a cluster-randomized trial carried out in Nigeria, which investigated follow-up schedules for treatment of severe acute malnutrition.
Image Credit: Noam Jordan, Unsplash