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This manual reflects the experience gained over five years of implementing and developing Community-based Therapeutic Care (CTC). It is a practical guide that aims to help health and nutrition managers to design, implement and evaluate CTC programmes. It will also be relevant to a variety of others working in relief and development.

Published in 2006, by Valid International

Following a summary of the global burden of malnutrition, this document reports on progress in protecting, promoting and supporting appropriate feeding, including implementation of the International Code of Marketing of Breast-milk Substitutes.

Published in 2006, by WHO

This special issue of the Food and Nutrition Bulletin reports on a WHO/UNICEF/Standing Committee on Nutrition (SCN) meeting on community-based management of severe malnutrition in children that took place in Geneva on November 21–23, 2005, and brought together some 50 international experts and representatives from the World Food Programme (WFP), the United...

Published in 2006, by UN Standing Committee on Nutrition

This technical paper is a special issue of the Food and Nutrition Bulletin reports on a WHO/UNICEF/Standing Committee on Nutrition (SCN) meeting on community-based management of severe malnutrition in children that took place in Geneva on November 21-23, 2005, and brought together some 50 international experts and representatives from the World Food...

Published in 2006, by SCN, WHO, UNICEF

Technical Notes outlining the CTC approach, its implementation and the role of Ready to Use Therapeutic Food (RUFT). 1. What is CTC? 2. Why does the implementation of CTC approach propose an update in the classification of malnutrition? 3. How is the CTC approach implemented? 4. What is the difference between CTC and Home Based Treatment? 5. What...

Published in 2004, by FANTA

This report supplement presents a collection of articles written by people who have been involved in Community-based Therapeutic Care (CTC) programmes. The contributions come from Valid International's CTC research and development team, operational agencies implementing CTC programmes, independent practitioners and academics involved in the research and...

Published in 2004, by Emergency Nutrition Network

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