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Ready to Use Therapeutic Foods (RUTF) improves undernutrition among ART-treated, HIV-positive children in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
BACKGROUND: 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 c...
Autores principales: | Sunguya, Bruno F, Poudel, Krishna C, Mlunde, Linda B, Otsuka, Keiko, Yasuoka, Junko, Urassa, David P, Mkopi, Namala P, Jimba, Masamine |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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BioMed Central
2012
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3478224/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22931107 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1475-2891-11-60 |
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