Improving Health & Nutrition by reducing morbidity, mortality, and suffering from incidences of occurrence of severe global acute malnutrition, Cholera and AWD among children fewer than 5 and floods and conflict affected persons in South Sudan.
PASS response and intervention intends at rescuing vulnerable communities of IDPs, host communities and returnees in health & nutrition programs. These activities will as well support creating synergies with nutrition and food security such as to reduce morbidity and mortality through famine prevention minimum package as well as preventing WASH-related disease outbreak. This intervention is planned to reduce suffering from protection threats targeting vulnerable families and individuals, malnourished children including their mother/caretaker. PASS addresses needs of the most vulnerable people especially children, women and girls.
PASS strategy aims to conduct Health & Nutritional surveys to establish gaps and community felt needs of community, through stakeholders consultative and community involvement. Provide medical supplies and drugs to the PHCCs, PHCUs and mobile clinic services. Conduct health education for both preventive and curative disease, offer trainings for Community Health care workers (CHWs), Community Mid-wives to ensure safe delivery during child birth. PASS Conducts HIV/AIDS awareness including counselling to reduce stigmatisation. Conducts Community health outreach events – through mobile clinics, promotion of health dietary practices among women of reproductive Age (WRA), carries out routine weight monitoring and appropriate counselling for Pregnant Women and promotes exclusive breast feeding for the first 6 months of the bay’s life. Finally, PASS provision appropriate micro-nutrient supplements to children under-five yrs, strengthen logistics, management and supply chain system for food and non-food items and capacity building for service providers on nutrition, including communication and advocacy skills
