Community-based management of severe acute malnutrition in India: new evidence from Bihar

Background: An estimated one-third of the world’s children who are wasted live in India. In Bihar state, of children <5 y old, 27.1% are wasted and 8.3% have severe acute malnutrition (SAM). In 2009, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) initiated a community-based management of acute malnutrition (CMAM) program for children aged 6–59 mo with SAM. Objective: In this report, we describe the characteristics and outcomes of 8274 children treated between...