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Agency
Intervention
Status
Médecins Sans Frontières - France
Short-term medical emergency project (Guradamole) and primary health care project
(Cherati).
Active, but approaching closing
Timeframe 2005
Main areas
Objectives
Activities
Target
Sites
Therapeutic feeding
Reduce mortality and morbidity related to malnutrition in project areas
• Mass measles vaccination.
• Sick child consultation.
• Nutritional surveillance - screening of acute malnutrition is done by a mobile clinic, as
there is -no health infrastructure in the area.
• Therapeutic feeding on outpatient basis and weekly monitoring.
• Food distribution (blanket food distribution and farming tools) – resources provided by
ICRC.
Children under-five.
Two woredas in Somali region.
Roles definition MSF staff (3) with 4 local nurses allocated to MSF by the Ministry of Health.
Partners
Training
Tools
developed
Achievements
Challenges
MOH, ICRC
Training on the management of severe malnutrition of under-fives on an outpatient
department basis. Screening of malnutrition.
Feeding protocols – use the same categories as the MOH national guidelines , but
different management structure, as the approach here is community-based rather than
clinic based.
Severe acute malnutrition levels brought down from 3.5 in March to 0.6 percent
prevalence.
• Pastoralist population always on the move.
• Region prone to drought.
• Geographical barriers to access, as the population is sparsely distributed.
Sustainability Not sustainable without other actors .
Lessons learnt Multisectoral approach is the way forward
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