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When families cannot access healthcare, nutritious food or clean water, ordinary activities like growing up healthy, attending school or earning a living become much harder. But it shouldn't be that way.
To end extreme poverty, we must tackle its root causes, and poor health and malnutrition remain among the biggest barriers preventing people from building secure futures.
In many of the countries where we work, health systems are under immense pressure and communities often struggle to access the support they need to prevent and treat malnutrition and common diseases. As a result, illnesses that are preventable elsewhere can become life-threatening, particularly for mothers and young children.
To help change this, we work with local communities and national governments to strengthen health systems, improve access to quality maternal and child healthcare, and expand water, sanitation and hygiene services. Our approach combines immediate support with long-term solutions that help communities become healthier, stronger and more resilient.
For more than 50 years, Concern has delivered innovative, evidence-based programmes that improve health and nutrition outcomes for some of the world's most vulnerable communities.
We work alongside people facing extreme challenges, helping them access the care, knowledge and resources they need to stay healthy and build brighter futures.
Together, we can help stop the extreme becoming everyday.
A closer look at health and nutrition programmes
Here are just some of the ways our health and nutrition programming is helping to change lives around the world.
CMAM
For more than 20 years now, our Community Management of Acute Malnutrition (CMAM) approach to tackling acute malnutrition has been extremely effective, so much so that it has become the preferred approach for tackling malnutrition internationally.
The central principle of CMAM is to treat malnourished children in their homes. As a result, it reaches more children and reduces the risks and expenses in travel for carers, malnourished children and their siblings.
Children who have been admitted to our programme are provided with weekly medical treatment and given one week's supply of therapeutic food. This micronutrient-enriched food is the key to success.
Now, the CMAM Surge approach is based on the observation that in many contexts, the number of children seeking treatment for acute malnutrition peaks during certain months of the year.
These seasonal ‘surges’ in demand are driven by many overlapping factors, including, for example, the pre-harvest hunger gap, increased incidence of malaria or diarrhoea during the rainy season, women’s workload patterns and movements associated with grazing livestock.
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