Malnutrition recovery
Indicator Name
Indicator ID in PRIME
Definition
This indicator tracks how many children under five years of age that are successfully treated / have recovered from acute malnutrition following admission into a treatment program for moderate or severe acute malnutrition.
Programs to treat moderate or severe acute malnutrition include: Outpatient Therapeutic Program (OTP), Targeted Supplementary Feeding Program (TSFP) or Stabilization Center (SC). This may also include programs focused on the Management of Small and Nutritionally at risk Infants (u6m) and their Mothers (MAMI).
“Save the Children supported” means funded or delivered through SC partners.
Child under five years: (suggested grouping; 0-5 months, 6-23 months, 24 – 59 months)
Acute malnutrition: includes both moderate acute malnutrition (MAM) and severe acute malnutrition (SAM); all forms of acute malnutrition (wasting and kwashiorkor) including those diagnosed using WHZ (<-2), oedema and/or MUAC (<125mm)
Admission and recovery (cured) criteria should be consistent with national and international guidance.
Numerator
Sum of number of children under five who reach the recovered criteria defined for the program i.e. complete recovery from acute malnutrition (severe or moderate)
Denominator
Total number of children with acute malnutrition treated
Recommended Means of Verification
Information should be directly sourced from program records, health facility records/service statistics, HMIS/DHIS2, CMAM reports, or other operational data.
Note: children admitted to a treatment program for severe or moderate acute malnutrition are likely to receive treatment in the program for several weeks before being discharged. Usual discharge outcome are recovery, default, death and non-response. If a child passes through different levels of care (Stabilization Centres, OTP, TSFP), only count each child once to avoid double counting. For example, do not count the individual child again when the child is discharged from OTP and then admitted and then discharged again from the TSFP. Count the individual child only once throughout the treatment process.