Routinely MUAC screening for severe acute malnutrition should consider the gender and age group bias in the Ethiopian non-emergency context

• Masresha Tessema,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Ethiopia Public Health Institute, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

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• Arnaud Laillou ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: alaillou@unicef.org

  Affiliation UNICEF Ethiopia, UNECA Compound, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2315-223X

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• Abiy Tefera,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation UNICEF Ethiopia, UNECA Compound, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

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• Yoseph Teklu,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation UNICEF Ethiopia, Emergency Nutrition Coordination Unit (ENCU), UNECA Compound, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

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• Jacques Berger,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institut de Recherche pour le Development (IRD), Montpellier, France

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• Frank T. Wieringa

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institut de Recherche pour le Development (IRD), Montpellier, France

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