Community care in Central Africa
Non-Governmental Organisations and UN agencies are working together in Central Africa to scale up the management of malnutrition by implementing Community-based Therapeutic Care (CTC) in strategic locations.
World Vision started a Community-based Therapeutic Care (CTC) programme in Southern Sudan in May 2007, with technical support from Valid International, to scale up the management of acute malnutrition in the region.
In Burundi, Action Against Hunger (AAH) piloted CTC programmes in Kayanza and Ngozi. In Chad, UNICEF and Valid International are supporting the Ministry of Health to pilot CTC in Kanem and Guera, and Save the Children UK and Valid International have started to implement CTC in Abeche.