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Key articles
World Health Organization. Management of severe malnutrition: a manual for physicians and other senior health workers. 1999. [internet publication].Full text
Valid International. Community-based therapeutic care (CTC): a field manual. 2006. [internet publication].Full text
World Health Organization; World Food Programme; United Nations System Standing Committee on Nutrition; United Nation's Children's Fund. Community-based management of severe acute malnutrition. May 2007. [internet publication].Full text
World Health Organization. Management of the child with a serious infection or severe malnutrition: guidelines for care at the first-referral level in developing countries. 2000. [internet publication].Full text
World Health Organization. Updates on the management of severe acute malnutrition in infants and children. 2013. [internet publication].Full text
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