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State of Palestine NUTRITION - SoP Nutrition Cluster Bulletin CLUSTER - Cluster Highlights

8 Jan 2024

The only way to avert the risk of famine is through the months need access multiple provision of nutritious, safe, and sufficient food to all civilians, the restoration of nutrition, health, water, to essential child micronutrient and sanitation systems and securing safe humanitarian access to reach children, women, and foods and nutrition supplements and communities. [...] children 0-23 months Infants 0-6 months • The decline in the quality and quantity of foods and increase in the risk of disease has increased the risk are in urgent need to are in urgent need of deficiencies in vitamins and other essential nutrients that are crucial for children’s growth and receive support and for promoting optimal development. [...] • Nutrition programmatic data and more systematic Nutrition assessments will be available as soon as the security situation allows access to the affected population but the ongoing catastrophe levels of acute food insecurity with simultaneous collapse of the food, nutrition, health, water and sanitation systems, and broader collapse of the social system, are unacceptable regardless of the determin. [...] • The lack of safe humanitarian access into Gaza and particularly in the north Gaza not only prevents the delivery of essential supplies and services but also the ability to get an accurate estimation of the true gravity of the nutrition situation and the changing needs of the affected population. [...] • SCI works on the procurement of micronutrients supplementation for the prevention and management of Anemia, as well as working on the provision of the needed • Management of Wasting supplies to establish mother- baby spaces to provide IYCF - E services.

Authors

Anna Ziolkovska

Pages
5
Published in
Switzerland