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Ready to Use Therapeutic Foods (RUTF) improves undernutrition among ART-treated, HIV-positive childr...

Ready to Use Therapeutic Foods (RUTF) improves undernutrition among ART-treated, HIV-positive childr...

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Ready to Use Therapeutic Foods (RUTF) improves undernutrition among ART-treated, HIV-positive children in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

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Ready to Use Therapeutic Foods (RUTF) improves undernutrition among ART-treated, HIV-positive children in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Publisher

England: BioMed Central Ltd

Journal title

Nutrition journal, 2012-08, Vol.11 (1), p.60-60, Article 60

Language

English

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England: BioMed Central Ltd

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Contents

HIV/AIDS is associated with an increased burden of undernutrition among children even under antiretroviral therapy (ART). To treat undernutrition, WHO endorsed the use of Ready to Use Therapeutic Foods (RUTF) that can reduce case fatality and undernutrition among ART-naïve HIV-positive children. However, its effects are not studied among ART-treate...

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Ready to Use Therapeutic Foods (RUTF) improves undernutrition among ART-treated, HIV-positive children in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

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TN_cdi_doaj_primary_oai_doaj_org_article_8cb91112608c44f1bd97fe66b0f659ad

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_doaj_primary_oai_doaj_org_article_8cb91112608c44f1bd97fe66b0f659ad

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ISSN

1475-2891

E-ISSN

1475-2891

DOI

10.1186/1475-2891-11-60

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