CMAM
- CMAM
- Community-based Management of Acute Malnutrition
The CMAM approach consists of four components:[1]
- community outreach (sensitising communities to be aware of malnutrition and know how to identify and treat it)
- outpatient therapeutic programme (OTP; treatment at home, with regular visits to the health facility)
- inpatient care (children without appetite and with complications are treated in inpatient care until stabilized)
- supplementary feeding programme (SFP; dry take-home rations to children, and to acutely malnourished pregnant or lactating women; often given to children discharged from OTP).
See also:
- IMAM (Integrated Management of Acute Malnutrition)
- MUAC (Mid Upper Arm Circumference)
- SAM (Severe Acute Malnutrition)
- RUTF (Ready-to-Use Therapeutic Food)
- SFP (Supplementary Feeding Program)
- OTP (Outpatient Therapeutic Program)
- UNICEF (United Nations Children’s Fund)
Bibliography
1. Unicef - National guidelines on CMAM in Pakistan.pdf, visited 2019-10-18