683 Households had improved access to clean and safe drinking water, sanitation, and good hygiene practices at
household, and community levels.
Undernutrition in all its forms contributes to approximately 45% of preventable deaths in children under 5 each year. Undernutrition negatively affects physical growth, cognitive development, and educational attainment, causing potentially irreversible damage.
Nutrition and health are inextricably linked through the vicious cycle of malnutrition and infection. Poor health results in poor nutrition outcomes, and poor nutrition results in poor health outcomes. In South Sudan, diet has been identified as one of the top risk factors in the national burden of disease, contributing to the morbidity and mortality of under 5-year-old children. In South Sudan, the causes of undernutrition may be immediate (disease and inadequate food intake), underlying (inadequate care, inadequate household food security, poor health environment and lack of access to health services, income poverty), and basic social, economic, and political context.
In 2022, our work benefited 425 children who were screened for SAM for U5 and MAM and PLWs U5 using MUAC measurements in Juba County, Central Equatoria State, in which 7 Cases of SAM were referred to KUDA PHCC which has a TSFP Site.