Cost-effectiveness of preventing child morbidity with ready-to- use food in urban Chad

A cluster-randomized Controlled Trial (cRCT) was conducted in urban Chad in 2010 aiming at reducing the incidence of wasting during the hunger gap. Action contre la Faim France (ACF- France) and the department of Food Safety and Food Quality, Ghent University, Belgium partnered in order to implement this research project. The target group consisted of children 6-36 months living in vulnerable households. Eligible neighbourhoods of the city were randomized into two groups, both receiving household food rations from WFP, with the intervention group receiving in addition a Ready-to-Use Supplementary Food (RUSF), Plumpy Doz© (Nutriset, France). Cost effectiveness of the secondary outcomes of this intervention was measured retrospectively in 2012.