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BULLETIN - NUTRITION SECTOR 81.2%

14 Feb 2024

• Following the validation of the survey results by the NS • The 2023 SENS results indicate a deteriorating acute Assessment and Information Management Technical malnutrition situation of very high public health concern Working Group (AIM TWG), CWW organised a in the mega camps (15.4 per cent) and an unchanged SENS 2023 results dissemination workshop with the situation of medium public health conc. [...] surveys can be attributed to varying coping mechanisms • NS, therefore, is prioritising the prevention of among the old refugees and the post-2017 influx, IYCF malnutrition through strengthening the nutrition- indicators, and the incidence of diarrhoea at the time of sensitive intervention jointly with other sectors - the survey, which was higher in the mega camps. [...] During the campaign, a total 1,368 children (56 per cent girls) with acute malnutrition were admitted (300 children to the Outpatient Therapeutic Programme for the treatment of SAM and 1,068 to the Targeted Supplementary Programme for the treatment of MAM). [...] It is also an effective way of demonstrating accountability and the added value of the cluster/sector and to justify the cost of coordination. [...] All the NS partners also provided the messages to raise awareness about children’s right from different sessions in the INFs to the mothers and caregivers of the children.
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