The IRC conducted a pilot in South Sudan to determine the feasibility of low-literate community health workers providing treatment for severe acute malnutrition in their communities.

From the IRC's 2022 Global Virtual Event, a story about Nazo, an IRC community health worker from Afghanistan, a country that was recently hit with a devastating earthquake. The International Rescue Committee helps people whose lives and livelihoods are shattered by conflict and disaster to survive, recover and gain control of their future.

The analysis examines eight community management of acute malnutrition programs, looking at how variations in program features, as well as differences in the contexts in which these programs were run, impacted their cost efficiency.

A memo summarizing the ways the world could become more effective in saving the lives of children impacted by acute malnutrition.

This study assesses the feasibility of low-literate community health workers in South Sudan providing treatment for severe acute malnutrition in their homes.

Bethany Marron of the IRC speaks with Think Tank TV on malnutrition research in South Sudan. She focuses on a tool the IRC developed to support low-literacy community health workers in tackling childhood malnutrition.

In this brief, the IRC builds the case for the inclusion of an IDA indicator on acute malnutrition treatment with the aim of increasing accountability and expanding the coverage of life-saving treatment in children.

Amid protracted crises in Yemen the IRC's EU-funded mobile medical teams provide respite to displaced families.