The effectiveness of interventions to treat severe acute malnutrition in young children: a systematic review.

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“…Community health workers with little or no training can also easily use this method to diagnose SAM. Furthermore it requires no charts unlike the weight-for-height method (Picot et al, 2012). The WHO does not recommend the use of MUAC to diagnose SAM in infants/babies aged below six months.…”

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