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Session Objectives By the end of the session, participants will be able to: • Describe common types of therapeutic and supplementary foods used in nutrition care • Describe concepts and types of therapeutic care • Discuss the protocols of comprehensive outpatient therapeutic care (OTC) • Describe the discharge criteria/outcomes of OTC Integrating Nutrition Assessment, Counselling, and Support into Health Service Delivery 2 Management of Acute Malnutrition Integrated management of acute malnutrition (IMAM) has four components: 1. Inpatient therapeutic care (ITC) for patients with: • Acute malnutrition and medical complications • Infants < 6 months of age with visible signs of acute malnutrition or whom have failed to feed 2. Outpatient therapeutic care (OTC) for patients with acute malnutrition and no medical complications 3. Supplementary feeding program (SFP), used in difficult circumstances 4. Community linkage for early identification, referral, and follow-up of acutely malnourished cases Integrating Nutrition Assessment, Counselling, and Support into Health Service Delivery 3 Acute Malnutrition and Types of Care Advantages • Reduces: o Unnecessary exposure to additional infection risks in health facilities o Time caregiver spends away from home and family o Disruption of the caregiver’s economic activities o Congestion in the health facility and health worker workload o Health facility costs, allowing reallocation of resources to other priorities • Contributes to early diagnosis of HIV infection for better care and outcome Integrating Nutrition Assessment, Counselling, and Support into Health Service Delivery 5 Brainstorm •What are therapeutic foods? •What are commonly used therapeutic foods in Uganda? •What are supplementary foods? •What are commonly used therapeutic foods in Uganda? Integrating Nutrition Assessment, Counselling, and Support into Health Service Delivery 6
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