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This document discusses severe acute malnutrition (SAM), including: 1. SAM is defined as weight-for-height below -3 z-scores, visible severe wasting, or nutritional edema. It affects over 20 million children globally and accounts for 1 million child deaths each year. 2. Community-based management of acute malnutrition (CMAM) decentralizes SAM treatment using outpatient care with ready-to-use therapeutic foods (RUTF) to increase coverage and reduce complications and death rates compared to center-based ca

Author
Samarjeet Kaur
Language
EN