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Scaling up coverage, quality and sustainability of early detection and treatment of severe wasting

5 Jan 2024

In global and regional action to address enablers July 2023, The WHO released an updated and barriers to country level scaling of coverage, guideline on the management of wasting and/ quality and access to programming for the early or* nutritional oedema with the full guidelines detection and treatment of severe wasting including prevention to be released before the in children between 2013 to Jul. [...] quality and access to early detection and Action Against Hunger (AAH) and the Coverage treatment programming for severe wasting for Monitoring Network (CMN) organized an event children in the coming years to meet the 2030 to identify access barriers and to set an agenda Sustainable Development Goals? to increase scale, coverage, quality and access to early detection and treatment for children with. [...] More is roll out of the 2023 WHO updated guidelines on known about the condition of wasting; the links wasting present an opportunity to accelerate the between wasting and other forms of malnutri- dialogue on prevention and treatment of child tion; and the ecosystem of causal pathways wasting in the health sector and beyond. [...] wasting in a child to a predictive, vulnerability and risk-based assessment approach aligns with calls to shift the aim of scaling from numbers reached to impact and equity of impact.12 There is an opportunity to review country and To leverage the opportunity of the WHO global monitoring frameworks as the UN Global Wasting Guidelines and the UN Global Action Action Plan for Wasting is rolled out a. [...] There There is also a wealth of untapped learning in are also a range of working groups that might be relation to how service adaptation in the context 15 Delivery System for Scale Progress and lessons learned from 2013 to 2023 of COVID-19, in the rapid scale-up in 2022-2023, sustainable and safe supplies for detection and in further roll out of the UN Global Action and treatment of child wasting.
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