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- Prise en charge de l’enfant atteint d’infection grave ou de malnutrition sévère (2000)
- Guiding Principles for Feeding Infants and Young Children During Emergencies (2004)
- Moderate Acute Malnutrition: a Decision Tool for Emergencies (2012)
- WHO child growth standards and the identification of severe acute malnutrition in infants and children (2009)
- Technical Note Supplementary Foods for the Management of Moderate Acute Malnutrition in Infants and Children 6-59 months of age (2012)
New Publications
- WHO guideline on the prevention and management of wasting and nutritional oedema (acute malnutrition) in infants and children under 5 years (2023)
- Policies to protect children from the harmful impact of food marketing: WHO guideline (2023)
- Nurturing care practice guide: strengthening nurturing care through health and nutrition services (2023)
- Cómo responder al maltrato infantil: Manual clínico para profesionales de la salud (2022)
- Infant and young child feeding counselling: an integrated course: participant's manual (2021)
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Breastfeeding is natural, but a skill that takes time and practice. With observation and tactful guidance, health workers can help mothers prevent problems and succeed with breastfeeding. This video shows how to observe and support a breastfeeding mother using the breastfeeding observation aid.
Good attachment will help a baby get more milk and make breastfeeding more comfortable. This video shows why good attachment is so important to breastfeeding success and how to help mothers deeply attach the baby to the breast.
A common concern of a new mother is whether her baby is getting enough milk. This video shows signs to tell whether the baby is feeding well and how to increase the baby’s milk intake.
Breast pain in a breastfeeding mother is commonly caused by one of three problems: engorgement, blocked ducts, or breast infections. This video shows how to evaluate and treat these 3 conditions.
Reference Guide Version 2. Revised. The Nutrition Program Design Assistant is a tool to help organizations design the nutrition component of their community-based maternal and child health, food security, or other development program. The tool focuses on prevention and also provides guidance on recu...
WHO's Severe acute malnutrition with medical complications kit (SAM/MC) kit is a standard kit designed to provide medical treatment for 50 children under five suffering from severe malnutrition with medical complications. The SAM/MC kit includes antibiotics, antifungal, de-worming, antimalarial and ...
Updated Packaging and Reconstitution Guidance for Therapeutic Milk. French Version
Public Health Action PHA 2017; 7(2): 110–115
The agenda focuses on six critical changes necessary for more children suffering from SAM to access effective treatment. Building on lessons from the last decade, and the experiences of other successful health initiatives, the agenda addresses issues ranging from the creation of a more enabling envi...
This document was prepared in response to a need to review and potentially update the current recommendations for the antibiotic treatment of both inpatient and outpatient management of severe acute malnutrition (SAM). The current recommendations (Table 1) are based on guidelines published in 2013 i...
The objectives of this guidance document are to:
1. Strengthen the capacity of country teams to effectively scale up and manage programmes to address severe acute malnutrition
2. Extend the geographic reach of quality treatment for SAM to all vulnerable communities in need
3. Maximize...
1. Strengthen the capacity of country teams to effectively scale up and manage programmes to address severe acute malnutrition
2. Extend the geographic reach of quality treatment for SAM to all vulnerable communities in need
3. Maximize...
Within the first few hours after birth, most healthy newborns will instinctively move to their mother’s breast and attach on their own. This video shows early breastfeeding initiation through the journeys of 3 newborns and ways to support the practice with mothers and staff.
The way a mother holds her baby affects how easy it is for her baby to feed effectively. This video shows basic points important for any position and then demonstrates several common positions that have worked well for many mothers and babies.
Expressing breastmilk can relieve breast fullness, soften the breasts, and make it easier for the milk to flow. It is also important to maintain a mother’s milk supply during separation and make milk available for someone else to feed the baby. This video shows how to hand express breast milk and ...
Nipple pain in a breastfeeding mother is common but not normal. It often happens when women first start breastfeeding and is usually due to the baby not attaching deeply. This video shows how to evaluate and help mothers with nipple pain.
This film shows a mother with engorged breasts and suggests ways she can try to resolve the condition.
Manual of Operations
First Edition 2016
This Guidance Document provides practical assistance to Country Offices scaling up programmes to manage SAM in young children. It outlines a step-by-step process through which countries can analyse their current situation, identify barriers and bottlenecks through the MoRES approach, and plan action...
This training guide applies a participatory approach, reflecting the considerable evidence that adults learn best by practicing and reflecting on their experiences. It thus emphasizes exercises to improve skills in counseling that support clients to adopt optimal nutrition practices. Women’s nutri...
