Outcome of children 6-59 months with acute malnutrition followed in four communes in the District of Bamako in 2008 and 2009.

Abstract

Our study was designed to evaluate, according to the 2007 WHO protocol, activities support children from 6 to 59 months malnourished at four municipalities in the district of Bamako. This was a retrospective descriptive study from 2010 to 2011 based primarily on data mining activity reports of the structures of the period from 2008 to 2009. In total 1612 cases of malnutrition were included in this study, including 639 in 2008 and 973 in 2009 of which 65% of cases of acute malnutrition was moderate in 2008 and 62% in 2009 and 35% of cases of severe acute malnutrition in 2008 and 38% in 2009). The highest child malnutrition rate was observed in 2008 in the municipality I with 54.02%, in 2009 and in the municipality V with 42.55%. The majority of malnourished cured (79.42%) was recorded in the municipality V in 2008. The death rate remained substantially equal to two years of support 2.66 / 2.77%. Dropouts represented 13.93% of the total malnourished followed in 2008 and 11.10% in 2009. The extension of the 2007 WHO protocol to all municipalities in the district is an opportunity for strengthening activities against malnutrition.