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Though, plenty of studies were done on the magnitude of acute malnutrition among under-five children in Ethiopia, there is a limited evidence on time to recovery from SAM and its predictors among children aged 6\u201359 months in Ethiopia, particularly in the study area.<\/jats:p>\n <\/jats:sec>\n \n Objectives<\/jats:title>\n The study was aimed to assess the time to recovery from SAM and its predictors among children aged 6\u201359 months at Asosa general hospital (AGH), Benishangul Gumuz, Ethiopia.<\/jats:p>\n <\/jats:sec>\n \n Methods<\/jats:title>\n A Five years retrospective follow-up study design was employed among 454 children admitted with SAM in AGH from January 2015 to December 2019. The data were extracted from the patient medical records using checklist. The data were coded and entered into Epi-Data 3.1; then exported to STATA\/SE-14 for analysis. Proportional Cox regression was performed to identify predictors of recovery time. A proportional hazard assumption was checked. Variables with AHR at 95% CI and P-value less than 0.05 in the multivariable Cox proportional regression was considered as significant predictors of recovery time.<\/jats:p>\n <\/jats:sec>\n \n Findings<\/jats:title>\n Among the 454 included records of children with SAM, 65.4% (95%CI: 50.1, 69.2) of them were recovered at the end of the follow-up with a median recovery time of 15 IQR(11\u201318)days. The incidence rate of recovery was 5.28 per 100 child days\u2019 observations. Being HIV Negative (AHR = 2.19: 95% CI 1.28, 3.73), Marasmic (AHR = 1.69: 95% CI 1.18, 2.42), and marasmic-kwashiorkor child (AHR = 1.60: 95% CI (1.09, 2.37) independently predicted recovery time.<\/jats:p>\n <\/jats:sec>\n \n Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n Though the time to recovery from severe acute malnutrition was in the acceptable range, the proportion of recovery was found to be low in the study area compared to sphere standard. 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