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Nutrition in transit centres

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Key points
  • Ensure coordination and collaboration between all those who are involved in a transit centre's nutrition activities.
  • Ensure that all refugees in transit centres have access to food.
  • Screen all arriving children for acute malnutrition using MUAC measurements and refer malnourished children for treatment.
  • Ask all arriving families with an infant younger than 6 months if it is breastfed, and refer infants that are not breastfed to a health centre or health workers.
  • Establish programmes to treat acute malnutrition, or effective referral mechanisms.

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