Quality of care for treatment of uncomplicated severe acute malnutrition delivered by community health workers in a rural area of Mali.

ABSTRACT: An alternative Community-based Management of Acute Malnutrition model with community health workers (CHWs) delivering treatment for uncomplicated severe acute malnutrition (SAM) was piloted in Mali. The capacity of the CHWs to evaluate, classify, and treat cases of uncomplicated SAM, to provide nutritional counselling to caretakers of children receiving treatment for SAM, malaria, pneumonia or diarrhoea and to correctly refer cases of complicated SAM, was assessed. This was done using direct observation by trained enumerators of the management of SAM cases using checklists, re-diagnosing the cases admitted for treatment and reviewing admissions cards and registers. One hundred twenty-five cases, assessed and treated by the CHWs, were observed. The majority of children were correctly assess

SUBMITTER: Alvarez Moran JL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6866144 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature