3,521
Participants
Start Date
May 31, 2025
Primary Completion Date
December 31, 2026
Study Completion Date
December 31, 2026
ready-to-use therapeutic food (for children with MAM)
Each child with MAM will be supplemented with RUTF for a maximum of 12 weeks. He/she will be followed subsequently up to 24 weeks.
Ready-to-use supplementary food
Each child with MAM will be supplemented with RUSF for a maximum of 12 weeks. He/she will be followed subsequently up to 24 weeks post recovery
Ready to Use Therapeutic Food - Reduced dose 1
Each child with SAM will be treated with a reduced dose for a maximum of 12 weeks : dose of 150-185 kcal/kg/day of RUTF until programmatic recovery. He/she will be followed subsequently up to 24 weeks post recovery.
Ready to Use Therapeutic Food - Standard dose
Each child with SAM will be treated with a standard dose (according to the national protocol for the integrated management of acute malnutrition in Burkina Faso) for a maximum of 12 weeks. He/she will be followed subsequently up to 24 weeks post recovery.
Ready to Use Therapeutic Food - Reduced dose 2
Each child with SAM will be treated with a reduced dose for a maximum of 12 weeks : dose of 150-185 kcal/kg/day of RUTF until the child is no longer severely malnourished and does not have nutritional oedema then 100-130 kcal/kg/day of RUTF until programmatic recovery. He/she will be followed subsequently up to 24 weeks post recovery.
Institut de Recherche en Sciences de la Santé, Ouagadougou
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
OTHER
Institut de Recherche en Sciences de la Sante, Burkina Faso
OTHER_GOV