Community-based management of acute malnutrition for infants under 6 months of age is safe and effective: analysis of operational data.

Objective: To assess the effectiveness of outpatient management with ready-to-use and supplementary foods for infants under 6 months (u6m) of age who were unable to be treated as inpatients due to social and economic barriers.

Design: Review of operational acute malnutrition treatment records.

Setting: Twenty-one outpatient therapeutic feeding clinics in rural Malawi.