Children with Moderate Acute Malnutrition with No Access to Supplementary Feeding Programmes Experience High Rates of Deterioration and No Improvement: Results from a Prospective Cohort Study in Rural Ethiopia

• Philip James,

  Affiliation Valid International, Oxford, United Kingdom

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• Kate Sadler,

  Affiliation Valid International, Oxford, United Kingdom

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• Mekitie Wondafrash,

  Affiliations Population and Family Health Department, College of Public Health and Medical Sciences, Jimma University, Jimma, Ethiopia, Department of Food Safety and Food Quality, Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

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• Alemayehu Argaw,

  Affiliations Population and Family Health Department, College of Public Health and Medical Sciences, Jimma University, Jimma, Ethiopia, Department of Food Safety and Food Quality, Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

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• Hanqi Luo,

  Affiliation Valid International, Oxford, United Kingdom

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• Benti Geleta,

  Affiliation Save the Children International, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

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• Kiya Kedir,

  Affiliation Save the Children International, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

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• Yilak Getnet,

  Affiliation Save the Children International, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

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• Tefera Belachew,

  Affiliation Population and Family Health Department, College of Public Health and Medical Sciences, Jimma University, Jimma, Ethiopia

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• Paluku Bahwere

  * E-mail: paluku@validinternational.org

  Affiliations Valid International, Oxford, United Kingdom, Research Center in Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Clinical Research, School of Public Health, Free University of Brussels, Brussels, Belgium

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