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KEMRI promotes new tool to expand malnutrition screening and guide community action. [File, Standard]
The Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI) is pushing for wider malnutrition screening and adoption of data at the community level for policy interventions, using a newly developed tool.
The introduction of an enhanced Mid-Upper Arm Circumference (MUAC) screening tool capable of detecting both undernutrition and overnutrition, unlike conventional MUAC tapes that mainly target undernutrition in children under five.
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