Severe acute malnutrition outcomes for children of South African compared to foreign-born parents admitted to a rural regional hospital in South Africa: a retrospective cohort study.
Aldona ThomasArnoldus L EngelbrechtAmy L SlogrovePublished in: Journal of tropical pediatrics (2022)
In this rural setting, 33% of children admitted with SAM were of foreign-born parents and experienced in-hospital SAM-associated mortality at least four times higher than children of South African parents. This illustrates the extreme vulnerability of these children.