Integrating severe acute malnutrition into the management of childhood diseases at community level in South Sudan

Since December 2010, Malaria Consortium has been implementing an innovative approach to community management of severe acute malnutrition, together with an existing integrated community case management (ICCM) programme in South Sudan. This learning paper considers Malaria Consortium’s experience of this combined approach in a highly complex context and shows whether the management of severe acute malnutrition is an effective, acceptable and feasible component of ICCM programming.

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Country: South Sudan

Keywords: Community delivery | Malaria | Malnutrition | Case management