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From labour hunt to entrepreneurship: UNICEF’s Cash Plus transforms lives
According to the 2024 Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), nearly 2.04 million children in South Sudan are at risk of malnutrition in 2025 — an increase from 1.65 million in 2024. Many children relapse and return to the nutrition service because of various factors including household food insecuri...
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Cash transfers improve livelihoods for children and mothers in Aweil East
A mother and restaurant owner, Young mother, Akiir Lual, is a recent recipient of a cash transfer pilot project in Aweil, Northern Bahr El Ghazal State in Northwestern South Sudan. As a breastfeeding mother, her two-year-old girl was suffering from malnutrition for almost a year and referred for treatment at a nea...
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Community nutrition volunteers lead prevention initiatives to tackle malnutrition in South Sudan
Given the limited access many mothers have to health and nutrition services in South Sudan, community nutrition volunteers (CNVs) have become a critical community level condiuts to prevent and treat malnutrition among children and mothers. With years of experience working for humanitarian organisations, Amou Madh...
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Cost of Inaction South Sudan 2023
South Sudanese people in need of humanitarian assistance is at record high whilst funding is at an all-time low, with further cuts expected in 2024. Children are the hardest hit, impacting on their rights to survival, education and protection from harm. Increases in malnutrition are continuing to rise and admissio...
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Ministry of Health, UNICEF and partners celebrate World Breastfeeding Day and call for scale-up breastfeeding practice among working parents in South Sudan
Juba, 8 August 2023, – As the world commemorates World Breastfeeding Week from 1 to 7 August, the Ministry of Health and UNICEF reiterate their call to all policymakers to protect and promote, and to all mothers to increase the practice of exclusive breastfeeding of infants up to six months of age. South Sudan has...
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Nutrition and health services integration is helping children in remote parts of South Sudan
In a small blue shed, amongst lush bush in remote eastern South Sudan – a primary care center is providing crucial healthcare and nutrition services to over 3,000 people from the Jie tribe population. Boma County is one of the most remote places in South Sudan and the area is susceptible to high rates of common ...
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Increased Food Insecurity in South Sudan Exacerbates Threats to the Lives of 3.1Million Children in Urgent Need of Protection
Child protection and food security practitioners in South Sudan urge donors, government, and the humanitarian community to ensure that the food security crisis does not threaten the lives and protection of girls and boys., The humanitarian community, donors, and government gathered in Juba this week to address the...
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The desperate faces of children fleeing conflict in Sudan
Severely malnourished, Chinhial Gathok, fled the fighting in Khartoum with her South Sudanese mother, father and sibling, and arrived in Renk County, Upper Nile State, bordering Sudan. The three-day journey from Sudan to Renk further deteriorated her fragile health. Chinhail was screened at the transit site and s...
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Mother-to-mother support groups help to prevent malnutrition in South Sudan
Bentiu, South Sudan -, It's a clear morning at the Bieh IDP site in South Sudan's Bentiu town, Unity state. The bright sun is not yet high in the sky, and it's a regular day for many, so the roads to the IDP site is busier than usual and the Bieh Nutrition Center is a buzz with many voices. Amongst the group is a ...
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Malnutrition in mothers soars by 25 per cent in crisis-hit countries, putting women and newborn babies at risk – UNICEF
NEW YORK, 7 March 2023, –, The number of pregnant and breastfeeding adolescent girls and women suffering from acute malnutrition has soared from 5.5 million to 6.9 million – or 25 per cent – since 2020 in 12 countries hardest hit by the global food and nutrition crisis, according to a new report released by UNICEF...
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A package of health and nutrition services to help children fight malnutrition
It’s early morning in a remote and conflict-stricken part of South Sudan. A group of women with babies on their backs or in their arms sit in a large tent set up as a nutrition center, waiting to be screened for malnutrition. Among them is 2-year old Anna-Baba and her mother Mary Lokoli. Anna-Baba and Mary come fr...
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Racing to save Wilson
Nurse Betty leaves the busy and dusty streets of Juba behind her and steps through the archway of Al-Sabbah, the only children’s hospital in the city. For the past three decades, Betty has dedicated her life to supporting malnourished children and comforting anxious parents. Two-year-old Wilson with Father Angelo ...