Integrated Approach to Community Management of Acute Malnutrition, Loima Sub-County, Kenya. Endline Coverage Survey
This coverage survey was completed using an adapted “wide area survey” methodology and included the treatment coverage of acute malnutrition, malaria, pneumonia, and diarrhoea.
1st August 2019
Lort-Phillips H,
In collaboration with the Kenyan Ministry of Health, Save the Children International implemented a research study in Loima sub-county, Turkana, northern Kenya to integrate the treatment of severe and moderate acute malnutrition (SAM and MAM) into the existing integrated Community Case Management (iCCM) responsibilities of Community Health Volunteers. The research study took place between November 2018 and August 2019. A coverage survey was completed in Loima sub-county in August 2019 with the aim of assessing the evolution of treatment coverage of SAM and MAM in the intervention and control arms of the study.
The coverage survey was completed in the intervention and control arms of the study using an adapted “wide area survey” methodology. In addition to measuring the treatment coverage of SAM and MAM in children aged 6-59 months, the wide area survey set out to measure the treatment coverage of Malaria, Pneumonia and Diarrhoea in children aged 2-59 months.