[pronut-hiv] Community-based Therapeutic Care (CTC): A Field Manual

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Community-based Therapeutic Care (CTC): A Field Manual

Community Therapeutic Care (CTC) is a new approach to managing acute malnutrition in children in emergencies and beyond. Conceived by Valid International and implemented along with Concern Worldwide, CTC provides rapid and effective assistance that is least disruptive to affected communities and focuses on outreach and community mobilization to promote participation and behavioral change for long-term solutions to food insecurity and threats to public health. CTC aims to treat the majority of the severely malnourished at home with specifically designed Ready to Use Therapeutic Foods (RUTF) such as the peanut-based Plumpy'nut® from Nutriset in France. 

Community-based Therapeutic Care (CTC): A Field Manual provides program managers, practitioners, and technical specialists addressing severe acute malnutrition with the essential design, implementation and evaluation protocols for implementing the CTC approach. As the CTC model is evolving, this first edition does not provide a step-by-step workbook for implementers, but rather offers a solid foundation to build CTC programs at local and national levels. The manual is a product of a collaboration between Valid International, Concern Worldwide, USAID?s FANTA Project, and Development Cooperation Ireland. Support for FANTA for the development of CTC and the production of the manual came from the Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA) and the Office of Health, Infectious Diseases and Nutrition at the U.S. Agency for International Development. 

To complement the release of the CTC Field Manual, a set of CTC training modules aimed at implementation of the CTC method for the management of acute malnutrition are in development. These training materials will be important to ensure that future implementers are proficient in the CTC method for managing acute malnutrition, and will be released after materials testing is complete.

To download a copy of the manual, go to: http://www.fantaproject.org/ctc/manual2006.shtml