Community Therapeutic Care: A New Approach to Managing Acute Malnutrition in Emergencies and Beyond

FANTA

Published in : 2004

Available in : English

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 is Ready to Use Therapeutic Food?
6. What are the results from the CTC programme to date?
7. Is the CTC approach cost-effective?
8. What are the ongoing planned activities?

Documents :
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This resource is listed under:

Themes : Emergency, general, Undernutrition, general, Community therapeutic care, Community therapeutic care, Therapeutic feeding, RUF/RUTF, Therapeutic feeding, RUF/RUTF, Treatment of severe acute malnutrition, Treatment of severe acute malnutrition

Resource types : Scientific/background documents

Working groups : Nutrition in Emergencies