It is projected that nearly 6 million children aged 0-59 months have likely been suffering and will likely continue to suffer from acute malnutrition in the period of May 2022 – April 2023 in Northwest and Northeast Nigeria. This includes 1,623,130 Severe Acute Malnutrition (SAM) cases and 4,308,4 [...]

The IPC Acute Malnutrition (AMN) projection update was conducted only for 125 districts in the governorates under the Internationally Recognized Government (IRG). The reason for the partial update was primarily due to restrictions to conducting virtual analysis in governorates under the Sana’a [...]

Between July 2022 and June 2023, an estimated 1.4 million children under five are expected to suffer from acute malnutrition based on analysis and estimations from the results of the SMART nutrition surveys, Food Security and Nutrition Monitoring System (FSNMS) and program admission trends. Approxi [...]

Overview of Acute Malnutrition The numbers of children under five and pregnant and lactating women who will suffer from acute malnutrition in 2023 are currently being validated by the nutrition sector partners. During the current period that coincides with the peak of acute malnutrition from July - [...]

In the areas analysed in the Grand South and Grand South-East, it is estimated that nearly 479,000 cases of Global Acute Malnutrition (severe and moderate) are expected from May 2022 to April 2023. Of these cases, the Grand South-East of the country is expected to account for nearly 123,000 cases of [...]

Kenya’s nutrition situation has significantly deteriorated across the ASAL counties compared to the same season last year and the 2021 Short Rains analysis conducted in February 2022. Based on the July 2022 analysis, malnutrition levels were extremely critical (IPC AMN Phase 5) in Turkana North, [...]

Based on the results from 25 integrated food security, nutrition and mortality surveys conducted by the Food Security and Nutrition Analysis Unit (FSNAU) and partners in June and July 2022 and subsequent IPC acute malnutrition analysis conducted in August, the total acute malnutrition burden for Som [...]

For the period from June to September 2022, all the districts in Burundi are in an Acceptable nutritional situation (IPC Phase 1). The nutritional situation will deteriorate slightly between October 2022 and February 2023, with more than 20 districts falling into IPC Phase 2 (Alert). In total, it [...]

Over 1.3 million children under the age of five are expected to suffer from acute malnutrition in North East Nigeria between January and December 2022, based on the Global Acute Malnutrition (GAM) by Weight-for-Height Z-score (WHZ) prevalence estimates. This includes approximately 316,753 Severe Acu [...]

DISCLAIMER: Please note that this IPC Acute Malnutrition analysis was integrated with an IPC Acute Food Insecurity analysis.  This IPC projection update for the Kenya’s Arid and Semi-Arid Lands (ASAL) region, covering the March to June period, was triggered by several cumulative factors. Firstly [...]