Institutionalising quality of care in inpatient facilities for the management of SAM in India
A winning Learning Competition entry by Meeta Mathur, Shivangi Kaushik and Aakanksha Pandey from India.
Key Lessons from Baseline Survey and Way Forward for the First-1000-Days Programme in India
A learning article from the 2019 Learning Review. A baseline study was conducted in order to understand the factors contributing to the high prevalence of maternal and child malnutrition and develop Action Against Hunger India’s first 1000 days plus CMAM intervention strategy.
Webinar: Key Advocacy Actions to Address the Issue of Malnutrition
A webinar led by Action Against Hunger India on advocacy in the context of India, how to link it to programmes and in particular advocacy in the context of malnutrition programmes.
Men’s Groups: A Strategy to Improve Men’s Health Seeking Behaviour in India
A Learning Review article from 2018 that details a new strategy to engage men in the community.
Mothers using MUAC to screen acute malnutrition FHF ACF 2017
Mothers using MUAC to screen acute malnutrition FHF ACF 2017
Family MUAC: Action Against Hunger in India – Case Study
The 'Family MUAC' approach, also known as MUAC for mothers or Mother-MUAC, trains mothers and other caregivers to identify early signs of malnutrition in their children using a simple to use Mid-Upper Arm Circumference (MUAC) tape. By moving this task to mothers (or other family members), who are able to do it as effectively as Community Health Workers (CHWs), the cases are detected earlier, leading to less hospitalisations. Mothers are empowered to manage their children's health and CHWs have more time to carry out other tasks.