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 - Funding Information:
This study was supported by Grand Challenges Canada Saving Brains Seed Grant 1809-18726 (M.J.B., E.K-A., F.W.), NIEHS/FIC grant R01ES01019841 (D.T-K., J.-P.B.M., D.M., M.J.B.) and USDA grant MICL02527 (F.W.). We dedicate this paper to our co-author Dr Jean-Pierre Banea Mayambu, who passed away on 13 September 2020. For over 30 years, Dr Banea was Director of the DRC’s National Nutrition Institute (PRONANUT). He was devoted to understanding and preventing konzo in the DRC and pioneered the wetting method in rural DRC to teach home caregivers how to treat cassava flour to reduce cyanide for improved food safety.
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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 -