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A mothers brought her child for growth monitoring and malnutrition treatment at Ayaha Primary Health Care Centre in Hargeisa district of northwestern Somalia. Somalia has some of the highest malnutrition rates in the world. UNICEF supports partners to implement a Basic Nutrition Services Package (BNSP). The package was developed to support delivery of cost effective and efficacious interventions with a holistic life-cycle approach. It looks at not only reducing mortality and morbidity but also implementing nutrition interventions that promote optimal development. The BNSP include the management of acute malnutrition, micronutrient support, deworming, immunizations, IYCF, maternal nutrition and care, and prevention and treatment of common childhood illnesses. .UNICEF Somalia has one of the largest nutrition programmes in the region in relation to need and has consistently met SPHERE Humanitarian Charter and Minimum Standards in Humanitarian Response, standards in its programming. Over the last 20 years nutrition programming in Somalia has tended to prioritize the integrated management of acute malnutrition (IMAM) however significant effort has been made in the last two years to refocus on preventative interventions especially infant and young child feeding...
DSC_9595
A mothers brought her child for growth monitoring and malnutrition treatment at Ayaha Primary Health Care Centre in Hargeisa district of northwestern Somalia. Somalia has some of the highest malnutrition rates in the world. UNICEF supports partners to implement a Basic Nutrition Services Package (BNSP). The package was developed to support delivery of cost effective and efficacious interventions with a holistic life-cycle approach. It looks at not only reducing mortality and morbidity but also implementing nutrition interventions that promote optimal development. The BNSP include the management of acute malnutrition, micronutrient support, deworming, immunizations, IYCF, maternal nutrition and care, and prevention and treatment of common childhood illnesses. .UNICEF Somalia has one of the largest nutrition programmes in the region in relation to need and has consistently met SPHERE Humanitarian Charter and Minimum Standards in Humanitarian Response, standards in its programming. Over the last 20 years nutrition programming in Somalia has tended to prioritize the integrated management of acute malnutrition (IMAM) however significant effort has been made in the last two years to refocus on preventative interventions especially infant and young child feeding...