TY - JOUR
T1 - Cost-effectiveness of a wetting method intervention to reduce cassava cyanide-related cognitive impairment in children
AU - Chen, Chen
AU - Kashala-Abotnes, Espérance
AU - Banea Mayambu, Jean Pierre
AU - Mumba Ngoyi, Dieudonne
AU - Tshala-Katumbay, Désiré
AU - Mukeba, Daniel
AU - Kunyu, Marcel
AU - Boivin, Michael J.
AU - Wu, Felicia
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2021, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Limited.
PY - 2021/7
Y1 - 2021/7
N2 - Cassava cyanide-related neurocognitive impairment may persist for years in Central African children who rely on cassava as a dietary staple. In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, a cassava processing method, the ‘wetting method’, reduced cyanide in cassava, prevented konzo, and proved a cost-effective intervention to improve children’s cognitive development. Scaling up use of the wetting method may help prevent neurocognitive impairment in millions of at-risk children in sub-Saharan Africa.
AB - Cassava cyanide-related neurocognitive impairment may persist for years in Central African children who rely on cassava as a dietary staple. In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, a cassava processing method, the ‘wetting method’, reduced cyanide in cassava, prevented konzo, and proved a cost-effective intervention to improve children’s cognitive development. Scaling up use of the wetting method may help prevent neurocognitive impairment in millions of at-risk children in sub-Saharan Africa.
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U2 - 10.1038/s43016-021-00321-w
DO - 10.1038/s43016-021-00321-w
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85110937188
SN - 2662-1355
VL - 2
SP - 469
EP - 472
JO - Nature Food
JF - Nature Food
IS - 7
ER -