Community volunteers deliver integrated prevention and treatment services to reduce child wasting in Chad
Wasting is a persistent public health problem affecting 45 million children under five years of age worldwide. Wasting is responsible for the deaths of 875,000 children under the age of five every year. Children who survive often suffer from long-term cognitive and physical disabilities UNICEF, the...
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International Food Policy Research Institute
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| author | Becquey, Elodie Touré, Mariama Djoufouna, Ahmed D. Barba, Francisco Affenou, Aldo Diatta, Ampa Dogui Dione, Malick Sawadogo, Abdoulaye Huybregts, Lieven |
| author_browse | Affenou, Aldo Barba, Francisco Becquey, Elodie Diatta, Ampa Dogui Dione, Malick Djoufouna, Ahmed D. Huybregts, Lieven Sawadogo, Abdoulaye Touré, Mariama |
| author_facet | Becquey, Elodie Touré, Mariama Djoufouna, Ahmed D. Barba, Francisco Affenou, Aldo Diatta, Ampa Dogui Dione, Malick Sawadogo, Abdoulaye Huybregts, Lieven |
| author_sort | Becquey, Elodie |
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| description | Wasting is a persistent public health problem affecting 45 million children under five years of age worldwide. Wasting is responsible for the deaths of 875,000 children under the age of five every year. Children who survive often suffer from long-term cognitive and physical disabilities UNICEF, the World Health Organization, and the World Bank 2021; Black et al. 2013). Member countries of the World Health Assembly (WHA) have agreed to reduce and maintain the prevalence of wasting to less than 5 percent by 2025. Most Sahelian countries are off track to meet the WHA targets and in Chad, the prevalence of wasting is still unacceptably high at 14 percent and shows large regional disparities (UNICEF, the World Health Organization, and the World Bank 2020). While both wasting prevention and treatment programs hold the potential to reduce child wasting, substantial synergies can be expected when prevention is integrated with screening, referral, and treatment services. Such integration should happen at the community level to maximize the accessibility of services for caregivers and their children. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1389832025-11-06T07:00:43Z Community volunteers deliver integrated prevention and treatment services to reduce child wasting in Chad Becquey, Elodie Touré, Mariama Djoufouna, Ahmed D. Barba, Francisco Affenou, Aldo Diatta, Ampa Dogui Dione, Malick Sawadogo, Abdoulaye Huybregts, Lieven child wasting public health community involvement malnutrition Wasting is a persistent public health problem affecting 45 million children under five years of age worldwide. Wasting is responsible for the deaths of 875,000 children under the age of five every year. Children who survive often suffer from long-term cognitive and physical disabilities UNICEF, the World Health Organization, and the World Bank 2021; Black et al. 2013). Member countries of the World Health Assembly (WHA) have agreed to reduce and maintain the prevalence of wasting to less than 5 percent by 2025. Most Sahelian countries are off track to meet the WHA targets and in Chad, the prevalence of wasting is still unacceptably high at 14 percent and shows large regional disparities (UNICEF, the World Health Organization, and the World Bank 2020). While both wasting prevention and treatment programs hold the potential to reduce child wasting, substantial synergies can be expected when prevention is integrated with screening, referral, and treatment services. Such integration should happen at the community level to maximize the accessibility of services for caregivers and their children. 2023-07 2024-02-06T20:35:07Z 2024-02-06T20:35:07Z Brief https://hdl.handle.net/10568/138983 en Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Becquey, Elodie; Touré, Mariama; Djoufouna, Ahmed D.; Affenou, Aldo; Barba, Francisco; Diatta, Ampa D.; Dione, Malick; Sawadogo, Abdoulaye; Huybregts, Lieven. 2023. Community volunteers deliver integrated prevention and treatment services to reduce child wasting in Chad. IFPRI Policy Note July 2023. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/138983 |
| spellingShingle | child wasting public health community involvement malnutrition Becquey, Elodie Touré, Mariama Djoufouna, Ahmed D. Barba, Francisco Affenou, Aldo Diatta, Ampa Dogui Dione, Malick Sawadogo, Abdoulaye Huybregts, Lieven Community volunteers deliver integrated prevention and treatment services to reduce child wasting in Chad |
| title | Community volunteers deliver integrated prevention and treatment services to reduce child wasting in Chad |
| title_full | Community volunteers deliver integrated prevention and treatment services to reduce child wasting in Chad |
| title_fullStr | Community volunteers deliver integrated prevention and treatment services to reduce child wasting in Chad |
| title_full_unstemmed | Community volunteers deliver integrated prevention and treatment services to reduce child wasting in Chad |
| title_short | Community volunteers deliver integrated prevention and treatment services to reduce child wasting in Chad |
| title_sort | community volunteers deliver integrated prevention and treatment services to reduce child wasting in chad |
| topic | child wasting public health community involvement malnutrition |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/138983 |
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