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Tackling malnutrition in South Sudan – in pictures

24 June 2013

Almost a billion people are affected by hunger, chronic undernourishment and famine worldwide, the vast majority in developing countries. Malnutrition claims the lives of over two million children every year.

In South Sudan, Malaria Consortium is working with local communities and the Ministry of Health to tackle under-nutrition in young children. Our emergency nutrition programme – supported by UKAid from the UK Department for International Development and United Nations agencies – trains and supports community health workers to diagnose and treat malnutrition in the community.

pHong village is in Northern Bahr el Ghazal state in South Sudan Fewsnet the Famine Early Warning Systems Network reports that Northern Bar el Ghazalrsquos food security status is likely to be stressed due to flooding cattle rustling the influx of refugees and ongoing insecurity in the region The combination of complex political economic and environmental factors in this area of South Sudan put children especially those under the age of five at risk of becoming malnourishedp
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