[e-drug] Innovative Nutritional Products Needed for Malnourished Children(3)

["Carolyn Green" <cgreen@aidsalliance.org>]

E-DRUG: Innovative Nutritional Products Needed for Malnourished Children(3)
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Dear E-druggers,

MSF have put a description of their rationale and approach (including a
comparison with the effectiveness of other forms of supplement) on their
website at:

http://www.accessmed-msf.org/documents/Nut_background.pdf

It's worth reading.

It is also worth looking at a site belonging to the AED (Academy for
Education and Development) food and nutrition site, where there is a
manual on therapeutic feeding at

http://www.fantaproject.org/ctc/manual2006.shtml

- chapter 11 of the manual explains about the possibilities of local
production of the paste/spread from milk powder, peanuts, vegetable fat
and sugar plus vitamins & minerals. It can be provided in foil sachets
or in plastic pots. Apparently it is like an enriched peanut butter.
FANTA project and MSF report on using it for <severely> malnourished
young children under the age of three. 

There is also a potential use for children who are severely wasted due
to HIV-related disease and need therapeutic food supplements to help
them recover more quickly when they are started on antiretroviral
treatment. But I haven't seen anything written on this yet - if anyone
has, it would be helpful to hear about it.

regards

Carolyn Green
Senior Technical Advisor, Care & Support
Care & Impact Mitigation Team
International HIV/AIDS Alliance
104-106 Queens Road
Brighton BN1 3XF
United Kingdom
direct phone: +44 1273 718747
main phone: +44 1273 718900
cellphone: +44 773311 2368
cgreen@aidsalliance.org