Project Title: Improving child survival through an integrated approach to tackle childhood malnutrition in rural Tanzania: Capacity building, screening and family based care implementation
Project Description: Tanzania is among the countries with high child mortality, with 67 children among 1000 live births dying before celebrating their fifth birthday. Malnutrition is among the major contributors to these deaths. 31.8% of under-five children in Tanzania are stunted and more than 500,000 are wasted. Kilombero district is located in rural South-Eastern Tanzania, within the Morogoro region, where 26.4% of children are stunted and 3.8% are wasted. We intend to conduct an implementation project aimed... Tanzania is among the countries with high child mortality, with 67 children among 1000 live births dying before celebrating their fifth birthday. Malnutrition is among the major contributors to these deaths. 31.8% of under-five children in Tanzania are stunted and more than 500,000 are wasted. Kilombero district is located in rural South-Eastern Tanzania, within the Morogoro region, where 26.4% of children are stunted and 3.8% are wasted. We intend to conduct an implementation project aimed at capacity building for community health workers and health care workers in the Kilombero district in screening and management of malnutrition, family-based screening for malnutrition, and community awareness events for malnutrition. The project will be implemented for a period of one year including seven health centers in Kilombero.
Principal Investigator : Getrude Joseph Mollel
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Time frame: (2020-09-01) - (2021-08-31)
Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute (Normal)
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