Community-based Management of Severe Acute Malnutrition (Focus on Low-Income Countries)
Emergency Nutrition Network (ENN) (Focus on Low-Income Countries)
Guidelines for the Inpatient Treatment of Severely Malnourished Children (Focus on Low-Income Countries)
IFE Resource Library (Focus on Low-Income Countries)
PubMed - Free Fulltext Articles on Malnutrition (12500+)
Valid International (Focus on Low-Income Countries)
This 8-page document was published in 2007 by WHO, World Food Programme, UNICEF and UN Standing Committee on Nutrition. It gives an overview of the problem of severe acute malnutrition and practical information on how to implement a community-based project with ready-to-use-therapeutic foods. http://www.who.int/nutrition/topics/Statement_community_based_man_sev_acute_mal_eng.pdf
ENN aims to accelerate learning and strengthen institutional memory in the emergency food and nutrition sector. The organization publishes Field Exchange, a tri-annual magazine containing field articles, research and news items for those working in emergency nutrition and food security. ENN houses the International Infant and Young Child Feeding in Emergencies Core Group (IFE) that produces policy and operational guidelines. http://www.ennonline.net/
Published by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in June 2005, the site gives step-by-step treatment guidelines for severely malnourished children. http://www.lshtm.ac.uk/nphiru/research/malnutrition.pdf
This 'Resource Library' contains numerous full-text documents regarding emergency nutrition. It is organized by regions, document type, specific emergencies and topics. Maintained by the Emergency Nutrition Network, the resource was developed by the UNICEF-led Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) Nutrition Cluster. http://www.ennonline.net/ife/resources.aspx
This PubMed search will identify all malnutrition related free fulltext e-journal articles within the database. Within the search results, there are links to the fulltext material. .New fulltext articles are added to the PubMed database weekly. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=pubmed&Cmd=DetailsSearch&Term=%22loattrfree+full+text%22%5Bsb%5D+AND+(%22malnutrition%22%5BMeSH+Terms%5D+OR+malnutrition%5BText+Word%5D)&WebEnv=0mjNINNao1gAUIMH6QyOBDLOciApyWFoXZt9Bz-f2C6H9vg-mu7TqjGuwbvJPncFVfjjVCFNk5lNUr%402563364D79E8BD60_0178SID&WebEnvRq=1
Valid International is a UK based non-governmental organization that organizes (evidence-based) community based-therapeutic care programs in many developing countries. The site contains information about the organization and its programs. It includes links to field manuals and reports about these programs. http://www.validinternational.org/pages/
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