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UNICEF and WFP Launch Mass Nutrition Screening As Hunger Threatens Lives of Children in South Sudan

November 02, 2015  /  Anne Ulizio

UNICEF and the World Food Programme (WFP) launched a mass mobilization campaign that will screen more than a quarter of a million children for acute malnutrition in Warrap state. In Warrap state alone, 26,000 children are thought to be acutely malnourished. Until the end of the year, 240 trained volunteers will go door to door to assess and screen more than a quarter of a million children, referring those with malnutrition to health facilities and other nutrition treatment centers. 

Read more about the campaign here.

Tune into our Innovate interview with Natalia Adler, Divisional Planning Specialist for the global Division of Data, Research and Policy at UNICEF.

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