Cochrane Reviews on maternal and child health by the READ-It team

Cochrane Reviews: Maternal and child health

02 Dec 2019

Intermittent preventive treatment for malaria in infants

Intermittent preventive treatment could help prevent malaria in infants (IPTi) living in areas of moderate to high malaria transmission in sub‐Saharan Africa.

Cochrane Systematic Review: NEW

24 Sep 2019

Interventions to improve disposal of child faeces for preventing diarrhoea and soil‐transmitted helminth infection

Assess the effectiveness of interventions to improve the disposal of child faeces for preventing diarrhoea and STH infections.

Cochrane Systematic Review: NEW

11 Sep 2019

Public health deworming programmes for soil‐transmitted helminths in children living in endemic areas

To summarize the effects of public health programmes to regularly treat all children with deworming drugs on child growth, haemoglobin, cognition, school attendance, school performance, physical fitness, and mortality.

Cochrane Systematic Review: UPDATE

15 May 2019

Ready‐to‐use therapeutic food (RUTF) for home‐based nutritional rehabilitation of severe acute malnutrition in children from six months to five years of age

To assess the effects of home‐based RUTF used during the rehabilitation phase of SAM in children aged between six months and five years on recovery, relapse, mortality and rate of weight gain

Cochrane Systematic Review: UPDATE

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Cochrane Reviews: Maternal and child health

Intermittent preventive treatment for malaria in infants

Interventions to improve disposal of child faeces for preventing diarrhoea and soil‐transmitted helminth infection

Public health deworming programmes for soil‐transmitted helminths in children living in endemic areas

Ready‐to‐use therapeutic food (RUTF) for home‐based nutritional rehabilitation of severe acute malnutrition in children from six months to five years of age

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