Please select the eligibility criteria that correspond to the clinical trial below.
Title: Effects of Unconditional Cash Transfers on the Management of Severe Acute Malnutrition (SAM) in the Democratic Republic of Congo: a Cluster Randomized Trial
Brief Summary: Cash transfer, aims to strengthen food security for vulnerable households by giving families enough purchasing power to consume an adequate and balanced diet, maintain a good standard of hygiene, access health services, and invest in their own means of food production in addition to their children's growth and development.

While cash transfer to vulnerable households has shown a long-term positive impact on growth and on malnutrition-related mortality in children aged 0-5 years, there is little conclusive evidence their effectiveness in Sub-Saharan Africa that cash transfer has a direct effect on the Community-based Management of Acute Malnutrition (CMAM). Here, the investigators will perform a cluster-randomized trial to investigate during 6 months the effects of unconditional cash transfers on the management of severe acute malnutrition (SAM) in children from 6 to 59 months according to the national protocol in the Democratic Republic of Congo.


Options:
A: Inclusion Criteria:

A household will be defined as vulnerable and thereby eligible for inclusion in the programme if there are children \<18 years resident in the household at baseline AND

* household is in the poorest quintile of households (20%) at baseline OR
* household contains one or more orphans at baseline OR
* the household head is under 18 years of age at baseline OR
* household contains a chronically ill member OR
* household contains a disabled member

A household will be defined as individuals that live within the same homestead and eat from the same pot.

Exclusion Criteria:

Households already receiving cash transfers for orphans or vulnerable children (OVC) will not be eligible to enroll in the pilot programme.

During the trial, households that do not qualify at baseline but whose conditions later change such that they become eligible to participate in the pilot will not be able to enroll.
B: Inclusion Criteria:

* Living in the catchment area of one of the 20 outpatient therapeutic program site participating in this cluster randomized trial;
* 6-59 months of age;
* Weight for Height Zscore \<-3 SD (WHO Growth Standards 2006) and/or Mid-Upper Arm Circumference \<115mm and/or with bilateral edema;
* No major clinical complications;
* Positive appetite test;
* Accept to participate at the study.

Exclusion Criteria:

* Not living in the catchment area of the outpatient therapeutic program site of the cluster randomized trial;
* Weight-for-Height Z-score ≥-3 (WHO Growth Standards 2006) and Mid-Upper Arm Circumference ≥115mm without bilateral edema;
* Major clinical complications;
* Failure to appetite test;
* Refuse to participate at the study.
C: Inclusion Criteria:

* Poor or very poor household (HEA criteria)
* Having at least one children under 1 year old at the time of inclusion

Exclusion Criteria:

* Medium or rich economic status (HEA criteria)
* no child under one year old at the time of inclusion
* not living in one of the 32 selected villages in the Tapoa province
D: Inclusion Criteria:

* resident in selected villages
* height between 60 and 80 cm.

Exclusion Criteria:

* refusal to participate

Answer: B