Malawi Nutrition Situation Update Issue #23 - June 2018
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In May 2018 reporting was at 100 percent. All the 618 Outpatient Therapeutic Program (OTP) centres, 104 Nutrition Rehabilitation Units (NRU) and 611 Supplementary Feeding Program (SFP) centres in Community-based Management of Acute Malnutrition (CMAM) reported as follows:
3,738 children aged 6 to 59 months with Severe Acute Malnutrition (SAM) received lifesaving treatment in OTP centres and NRUs.
5,049 children aged 6 to 59 months with Moderate Acute Malnutrition (MAM) treated in the SFP centres.
2,099 Pregnant and Lactating Women (PLW) with MAM received supplementary food at the SFP centres.
2% decrease in SAM admissions in May 2018 compared to May 2017.
39% decrease in MAM admissions in May 2018 compared to May 2017.
The SAM death rate in the month of May 2018 was 2.2%, within SPHERE standards.