Nutrition, health, mental health and Care practices

Through its nutrition programmes, ACF prevents, diagnoses and treats acute malnutrition in those most at risk, including young children and pregnant or breast-feeding women.  Depending on the particular requirements of each situation, the context and the local culture, ACF designs health and nutrition programmes that are tailor-made for the target community.  These programmes include an assessment of the community’s nutritional needs and the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of malnutrition.  ACF teams pay particularly close attention to training local workers in order to guarantee the autonomy of local entities in taking charge of and treating malnutrition.