Development and Implementation of a Locally Produced Ready-to-Use Therapeutic Food (RUTF) in Vietnam

Phuong, Huynh Nam; Nga, Tran Thuy; Mathisen, Roger; Nguyen, Minh; Hop, Le Thi; Hoa, Do Thi Bao; Minh, Hong Nguyen; Tuyen, Le Danh; Berger, Jacques; Wieringa, Frank

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“…A similar dislike toward a paste-based RUTF was found in Vietnam. 34 Also, an earlier report on the low acceptability of Plumpy’Nut in Cambodia attributed this to the fact that the product was a paste. 18 The results from Vietnam and Cambodia might suggest that a specific regional unfamiliarity with a sweet and fat paste-like food might explain the limited success of the global most used RUTF paste: Plumpy’Nut.…”

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Development and Acceptability of Locally Made Fish-Based, Ready-to-Use Products for the Prevention and Treatment of Malnutrition in Cambodia

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Development and Acceptability of Locally Made Fish-Based, Ready-to-Use Products for the Prevention and Treatment of Malnutrition in Cambodia

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“…The formulations contain less milk powder, which is a costly ingredient, use exclusively or primarily locally available ingredients, and are mostly peanut free. These prototypes were found to be safe and acceptable among adults [17] and young children [18,20].…”

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Ready-to-Use Foods for Management of Moderate Acute Malnutrition: Considerations for Scaling up Production and Use in Programs

Osendarp¹,

Rogers²,

Ryan³

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Food Nutr Bull

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“…It was formulated to resemble “mooncake”, a delicacy eaten to celebrate the Vietnamese Mid-Autumn Festival, also known as the Children’s Festival. HEBI proved more acceptable than, and as effective as, Plumpy’Nut® and became widely and successfully used in Vietnam in IMAM programming [29, 30]. It was determined that a similar project could be undertaken in Cambodia.…”

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Development and testing of locally-produced ready-to-use therapeutic and supplementary foods (RUTFs and RUSFs) in Cambodia: lessons learned

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Mihrshahi

Laillou³

et al. 2019

BMC Public Health

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Background Rates of childhood undernutrition are persistently high in Cambodia. Existing ready-to-use supplementary and therapeutic foods (RUSFs and RUTFs) have had limited acceptance and effectiveness. Therefore, our project developed and trialled a locally-produced, multiple micronutrient fortified lipid-based nutrient supplement (LNS) with therapeutic and supplementary versions. This ready-to-use food (RUF) is innovative in that, unlike many RUFs, it contains fish instead of milk. Development began in 2013 and the RUF was finalised in 2015. From 2015 until the present, both the RUTF and the RUSF versions were trialled for acceptability and effectiveness. Methods This paper draws on project implementation records and semi-structured interviews to describe the partnership between the Cambodian Ministries of Health and Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, UNICEF, the French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development (IRD), universities, and Vissot factory. It discusses the project implementation and lessons learned from the development and trialling process, and insights into positioning nutrition on the health agenda in low and middle-income countries. Results The lessons learned relate to the importance of project planning, management, and documentation in order to seize opportunities in the research, policy, advocacy, and programming environment while ensuring adequate day-to-day project administration and resourcing. Conclusions We conclude that projects such as ours, that collaborate to develop and test novel, locally-produced RUTFs and RUSFs, offer an exciting opportunity to respond to both local programmatic and broader research needs.

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Development and Implementation of a Locally Produced Ready-to-Use Therapeutic Food (RUTF) in Vietnam

Cited by 12 publications

References 6 publications

Development and Acceptability of Locally Made Fish-Based, Ready-to-Use Products for the Prevention and Treatment of Malnutrition in Cambodia

Development and Acceptability of Locally Made Fish-Based, Ready-to-Use Products for the Prevention and Treatment of Malnutrition in Cambodia

Ready-to-Use Foods for Management of Moderate Acute Malnutrition: Considerations for Scaling up Production and Use in Programs

Development and testing of locally-produced ready-to-use therapeutic and supplementary foods (RUTFs and RUSFs) in Cambodia: lessons learned

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