The Cooking and Pneumonia Study: a focus on food (360G-Wellcome-106977_Z_15_Z)

we will substantially enhance the food-focused aspects of this work. The work will be conducted in Chikhwawa, an area of Malawi greatly affected by food insecurity and where times of serious food shortage are within easy living memory. One of the most common serious adverse events reported among under 5 year olds in CAPS is malnutrition requiring hospitalization highlighting the ongoing impact of poor nutrition and food insecurity on the community we are working with. We will work with our Community Advisory Group leaders to identify two CAPS villages (one intervention and one control) and two households from each village to take part in some initial in depth inter-generational semi-structured discussions about cooking, food, health (pneumonia, gastroenteritis and nutrition particularly) and the environment. Following these discussions each household will be given a stills camera for 24 hours tocapture moments of interest/importance to them during the day with a follow upinterview the next day to capture the stories behind their pictures.