The humanitarian emergency in Burundi
Evaluation of the operational strategy for management of nutritional crisis
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 15096229 |
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| Authors | Laura Rossi (0000-0001-8682-8500, Istituto Nazionale di Ricerca per gli Alimenti e la Nutrizione, corresponding author), Daniel Verna (Republic of Burundi), Susie L Villeneuve, Susie Villeneuve (United Nations Children's Fund) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue | 7 |
| Pages | 699-705 |
| Publication date | 2008-07-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Public Health Nutrition (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1368-9800 • E-ISSN: 1475-2727 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s1368980007001413 |
| PMID | 18088446 |
| OpenAlex | W2153074357 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 8 |
Objective To evaluate the impact and appropriateness of programmes for the management and treatment of severe malnutrition in emergency situations. Design A central unified database was set up with all data and statistics provided by nutritional centres (NC) active in Burundi. Setting The paper describes the case of Burundi as an example of the response of the humanitarian community to nutritional crisis. Subjects Since 1999, more than one million (1 054 210) severely malnourished patients were treated in NC established in Burundi. Results Peaks of beneficiaries were registered in 2000 and 2001; the admission rate started to decrease in 2002. In 2004, twenty therapeutic feeding centres (TFC) and 224 supplementary feeding centres (SFC) were active for the treatment of 127 420 beneficiaries. Nutritional programmes were present in every province with a coverage rate of 55 %. The most convincing impact of the nutritional programme in Burundi was the reduction of mortality rate in children under 5 years of age; an impact on the prevalence of acute malnutrition could not be demonstrated. Children under 5 years old accounted for 62 % of beneficiaries in TFC and 76 % in SFC. TFC performance indicators fulfilled the minimum standards in disaster response; the performance of SFC was not so optimal with a low recovery rate (69 % v . >80 %) and a high non-respondent rate (16 % v . Conclusions In Burundi the stabilisation of security conditions permitted a combination of humanitarian responses ranging from emergency activities to strengthening of community-based initiatives that could correct the coverage and impact limitations
Business · Environmental health · Malnutrition · Mortality rate · Political science · Respondent · Severe Acute Malnutrition · Child Nutrition and Water Access · Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations · Global Maternal and Child Health · Medicine · Surgery
| Citations per year | 0.11 |
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| Citation span | 2007 - 2016 (10) |
| Highly cited | No |