Products: Overview | Severe acute malnutrition | Moderate acute malnutrition | Chronic malnutrition
Chronic malnutrition
This is a condition that develops when children do not eat the correct balance of nutrients in the first 1,000 days of life (from conception to the age of two), resulting in the stunting of their mental and physical development. Stunted children’s immune defences are impaired, putting them at greater risk of common acute infections such as diarrhoea, measles, malaria and pneumonia.
VALID Nutrition has developed a Ready-to-Use Complementary Food (RUCF), also called Lipid-based Nutrient Supplement – Small Quantity (LNS-SQ) to prevent and treat chronic malnutrition in children over 6 months to 24 months
RUCF Product Factsheet
Note: Breastfeeding is recommended until at least 24 months (exclusive up to 6 months). All VALID Nutrition products are for children > 6 months and do not replace breastfeeding.
Products: Overview | Severe acute malnutrition | Moderate acute malnutrition | Chronic malnutrition
Chronic malnutrition
This is a condition that develops when children do not eat the correct balance of nutrients in the first 1,000 days of life (from conception to the age of two), resulting in the stunting of their mental and physical development. Stunted children’s immune defences are impaired, putting them at greater risk of common acute infections such as diarrhoea, measles, malaria and pneumonia.
VALID Nutrition has developed a Ready-to-Use Complementary Food (RUCF), also called Lipid-based Nutrient Supplement – Small Quantity (LNS-SQ) to prevent and treat chronic malnutrition in children over 6 months to 24 months
RUCF Product Factsheet
Note: Breastfeeding is recommended until at least 24 months (exclusive up to 6 months). All VALID Nutrition products are for children > 6 months and do not replace breastfeeding.
Dr Steve Collins reflects on the opportunities and problems associated with the USD$250 million contribution announced by Administrator, Samantha Power of USAID – a positive catalyst for change?
VALID commissioned and achieved peer-review of a professional report to quantify objectively the overall climate impact profile of the amino-acid enhanced, plant-based RUTF recipe. It has found that the overall global warming potential impacts of the plant-based RUTF recipe are 47%-52% less than the milk-peanut based recipe.
Dr Steve Collins gives a hugely informative and enlightened interview to ENN podcast while discussing his candid Reflections on the UN Global Action Plan on Wasting.