Publications by authors named "Mahamadou Samake"
Background: Enabling community health workers (CHWs) to treat acute malnutrition improves treatment access and coverage. However, data on the cost and cost-effectiveness of this approach is limited. We aimed to cost the treatment at scale and determine the cost-effectiveness of different levels of supervision and technical support.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFEffectiveness of decentralizing outpatient acute malnutrition treatment with community health workers and a simplified combined protocol: a cluster randomized controlled trial in emergency settings of Mali.
Noemí López-Ejeda Pilar Charle-Cuéllar Salimata Samake Abdias Ogobara Dougnon Luis Javier Sánchez-Martínez Mahamadou N'tji Samake
Front Public Health
March 2024
Article Synopsis
- The study examined the impact of integrating severe and moderate acute malnutrition treatment into a single program delivered by community health workers (CHWs) instead of only at health centers.
- Recovery rates improved with the simplified protocol, showing 92.9% recovery compared to 76.3% in the standard care group.
- This approach reduced costs for therapeutic food while maintaining similar recovery times and anthropometric gains across all treatment methods.