CATEGORY
Campaign
Website
ophcd.org
Location
Afghanistan
Project Info
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Provision of Emergency Nutrition services for <5 years children and pregnant & lactating women of nomad population
Coverage
- 26 nomad health clinics in 15 provinces including Laghman, Khost, Paktia, Paktika, Helmand, Takhar, Wardak, Parwan, Kabul, Logar, Baghlan, Kapisa, Ghazni, Faryab and Nangrahar.
- The project achieved its’ 3 years targets in first 2 years.
Funded by : DWW, Turkey
Project Result & Benefits of Project
- Screened 131,815 <5 children for examining their nutrition status and out of them:
- Detected and treated 7,998 <5 years children suffering Sever acute malnutrition (SAM) and recovered following the treatment.
- Detected and treated 7,028 <5 years children suffering moderate acute malnutrition (MAM) and recovered following treatment.
- Screened 56,327 pregnant and lactating (PLWs) women for examining nutrition status and out of them:
- Detected and treated 5,635 PLWs suffering acute malnutrition and recovered following treatment.
- For treatment of the above 3 categories of malnourished patients received distributed:
- 7 metric tons RUTF to SAM children.
- 57 metric tons RUSF to MAM children, and,
- 96 metric tons Super cereal to malnourished PLWs.
- 107 health staff trained on IMAM 6 days training.
- 150 religious leaders and 208 health clinics shura members received 1 day training on Nutrition.
- 2713 mothers and CBA women got half day MUAC orientation.
