Children with moderate acute malnutrition (MAM) have an increased risk of iron deficiency, anaemia and death from infectious diseases. The iron-regulating hormone hepcidin is increase...

INTRODUCTION

Patient-centred task-shifting models may be a promising strategy in the community-based management of severe acute malnutrition (SAM) to alleviate ...

Hospitalisation and routine antibiotic treatment are recommended for children with complicated severe acute...

The ongoing conflict in Yemen, which began in 2014, has led to one of the world’s most severe humanitarian crises. The Hudaydah region, located on the Red Sea coast and home to the co...

OBJECTIVE

To ...

BACKGROUND

International recommendations advise against the use of intravenous rehydration therapy in children with severe acute malnutrition because of the con...

BACKGROUND

A novel ready-to-use microbiome-directed food (MDF) has been developed for the management ...

BACKGROUND

Considering the challenges of providing nutrition care in resource‐limited settings (RLSs), the International Working Group for Patients' Right t...

Multiple micronutrient supplements (MMSs) in pregnancy reduces risk of infant low birthweight (LBW) and improves other maternal and infant outcom...

BACKGROUND

Studies have demonstrated an inverse log-linear relationship between body mass index (BMI) and tuberculosis incidence. However, a person’s BMI is dyn...

Each day more than 500 children younger than 15 years die from tuberculosis. Considerable progress has been...

Severely malnourished patients can present with bilateral pitting oedema, which is a common sign of Kwashiorkor. However, bilateral pitting oedema can also be an expression of other p...

Insulin-like growth factor 1 (IGF-1) is an important growth factor in childhood. We aimed to investigate th...