Hospital for Sick Children – RCT of F35 Therapeutic Milk for Inpatient Severe Acute Malnutrition (February 2026)

[Destiny Clark]

We published a page about GiveWell's February 2026 grant of $1.2m to Hospital for Sick Children to co-fund a phase III randomized controlled trial (RCT) testing whether a lower-calorie therapeutic milk formula (F35) can reduce mortality in hospitalized children with severe acute malnutrition (SAM) relative to the current standard-of-care therapeutic milk formula (F75).