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    CMAM is a community-based model for treating acute malnutrition through timely detection, treatment, and prevention among vulnerable groups like children under 5, pregnant/lactating women, and older persons. It focuses on integrating management of acute malnutrition into primary healthcare by providing services like outpatient therapeutic programs, supplementary feeding programs, stabilization centers, and community mobilization with referral linkage between levels of care. The goal is to reduce mortality and morbidity related to acute malnutrition.

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    CMAM is a community-based model for treating acute malnutrition through timely detection, treatment, and prevention among vulnerable groups like children under 5, pregnant/lactating women, and older persons. It focuses on integrating management of acute malnutrition into primary healthcare by providing services like outpatient therapeutic programs, supplementary feeding programs, stabilization centers, and community mobilization with referral linkage between levels of care. The goal is to reduce mortality and morbidity related to acute malnutrition.

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    CMAM is a community-based model for treating acute malnutrition through timely detection, treatment, and prevention among vulnerable groups like children under 5, pregnant/lactating women, and older persons. It focuses on integrating management of acute malnutrition into primary healthcare by providing services like outpatient therapeutic programs, supplementary feeding programs, stabilization centers, and community mobilization with referral linkage between levels of care. The goal is to reduce mortality and morbidity related to acute malnutrition.

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    SESSION 2

    OVERVIEW OF CMAM

    COMMUNITY MANAGEMENT OF ACUTE MALNUTRITION (CMAM)


    What is CMAM?
    • What do you understand by CMAM?

    • Who are the target groups for CMAM?

    2
    What is CMAM
    • A model that takes treatment of malnutrition into the community
    • The strategy aims at reducing mortality and morbidity related to
    acute malnutrition through timely detection, treatment and
    prevention of acute malnutrition among the target groups:
    • Children under-five years
    • Pregnant and lactating women with infants less than 6months
    • Other Vulnerable groups (people infected with /similar complications and
    the older persons

    • CMAM focuses on the integration of the management of acute


    malnutrition into the routine primary health care services at all
    levels of the health care system

    3
    COMMUNITY MANAGEMENT OF ACUTE MALNUTRITION (CMAM)
    Components of CMAM and Referral Linkage
    Services/programmes for
    prevention of acute malnutrition

    SFP
    (Supplementary
    Feeding Program) Re
    fe rra
    e rral l
    f
    Re
    ITP/SC
    Community (Inpatient

    Referral
    Therapeutic
    Mobilization Programme/
    Referral
    Stabilization
    Centres)

    l
    rra
    f e
    Re OTP Re
    fer (Outpatient
    r al
    Therapeutic
    Programme)
    4

    COMMUNITY MANAGEMENT OF ACUTE MALNUTRITION (CMAM)


    Group Work
    • In groups of three, brainstorm what each component of CMAM is about:

    -Community Mobilisation
    -TSFPs
    -OTPs
    -Stabilisation centres

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