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Community Therapeutic Care (CTC) Workshop in Dublin, October 2003
Emergency Nutrition Network (ENN) Special Supplement to Field Exchange Issue 23, 2004
Community-based Therapeutic Care (CTC)
CTC is a community-based approach of care for managing large numbers of acutely malnourished people in times of stress. The CTC approach treats the majority of the severely malnourished at home and uses outreach teams to promote community participation and behavioral change. CTC aims to build community capacity to manage and to better respond to repeated cycles of relief and recovery. Providing appropriate therapeutic foods containing the right mix of nutrients that will aid in recuperation is central to the home-based care of the severely malnourished. Ready to use therapeutic foods (RUTF) have been specially designed for the treatment of severe acute malnutrition. RUTF can be manufactured locally thereby increasing availability and reducing costs.
The CTC program is a three year, multi-donor funded program. The donors include Ireland AID, Concern Worldwide, the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), the World Health Organization of the United Nations (WHO), and the US Agency for International Development (USAID) through FANTA. The CTC program is managed by Valid International. In the field, the CTC program is implemented by NGOs such as Concern Worldwide and Save the Children in three countries (Sudan, Malawi, and Ethiopia).
The Emergency Nutrition Network (ENN) has published Community-based Therapeutic Care (CTC), a special supplement to the November 2004 issue of ENN's Field Exchange. The supplement is a collection of articles that provide a wide range of evidence-based perspectives from people who have been involved in CTC programs over the last four years. Specifically, the articles present the impact and effectiveness of the CTC model in different contexts through lessons learned from case studies in Ethiopia, Malawi and North and South Sudan. Additionally, the CTC program has included substantial research on the development of locally produced Ready to Use Therapeutic Food to reduce costs of the program and increase sustainability. More recent work has focused on adapting the CTC approach for the care of HIV infected individuals.
Download ENN Community-based Therapeutic Care Supplement [2.2 mb]
