Training medical professionals in South Africa
Pre-service training curricula on the management of severe acute malnutrition is further developed in South Africa.
With assistance from the University of the Western Cape, nutrition teaching of medical students at the University of Cape Town, School of Child and Adolescent Health, has been reviewed and the curriculum will be revised and strengthened during 2008. Management of severe malnutrition is now an established feature in the undergraduate nurses' curriculum at the University of the Western Cape.