child health and nutrition support.

Summary

The project will improve knowledge and skills for integrating infant and child feeding practices among mothers of children under six months and growth monitoring of children under 5 years in Amuru.

What is the issue, problem, or challenge?

In Amuru District the percentage of children under 5 years suffering from moderate and severe stunting is very high at 45% and from wasting at 20% compared to the national average of 6% (Uganda Demographic and Health Survey, 2006).The incidence of HIV/AIDS in Amuru district is among the highest at 13% (Amuru DDP – 2008/9-2010/11) , over 50% of children born to HIV positive mothers acquire HIV.This is made worse with difficulty in accessing nutritious food,, high malaria transmission, and poverty

How will this project solve this problem?

This project will train Village health teams,Family support group in infant feeding,growth monitoring The project will support children care givers to establish poultry units We shall distribute therapeutic milk for therapeutic feeding centers

Potential Long Term Impact

The project will train 120 Village health teams and family support group,support the mothers in establishment of poultry units, provide therapeutic milk for therapeutic feeding centre , plumpynuts and vitamin A supplements for out-patient treatment

Project Message

As we resettle back into our communities we lack access to nutritious food, malaria control facilities, access to health services through this project we have got knowledge on infant feeding practices
- Akullu Emilly, Project beneficiary in the project area

Additional Documentation

This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).

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