Summary:
Community Management of Acute Malnutrition (CMAM) needs to be made central to all the Government efforts to bring down the rising incidence of Severe Acute Malnutrition (SAM) in the country, CMAM Association of India has stated. With the increase in incidence of SAM, more children are at risk and need to be managed urgently. They can be treated effectively in the community through CMAM programs, CMAM Association has stated. Some states have adopted nutrition intervention for the treatment of SAM children in the community largely involving doubling of Take Home Rations. With a manufacturing capacity of over 20,000 MT of RUTF annually, we can support over 13,50,000 SAM children on a yearly basis..