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9. Use of latrines and average quantity of water used per person per day. For the latrine usage, families were simply asked whether or not they used latrines, and a simple ‘yes’ or ‘no’ answer recorded. No of sampled people using latrine: 919 (90%) The average quantity of water used per person was calculated by asking the family for the total quantity of water they used and dividing it by the number of people in the family: Average quantity of water used per person per day: 12.46 Litres 24
Anthropometrical Results DISCUSSION The Nutritional Survey results would indicate that the nutritional situation amongst the IDPs in Mogadishu is still poor – although not catastrophic. At the same time additional information collected in the survey indicates an extremely high rate of mortality amongst young children. The two pieces of information could in fact be complimentary. Children who are malnourished have a higher risk of mortality – having less resistance to infections and a poorer ability to cope with them when they do catch them. Younger children (i.e. those between 65cm and 80cm or those between 6 and 29 months) appear to be more at risk of severe malnutrition than older children. One possible explanation for this is that a lack of health education has meant that parents have poor breastfeeding and weaning habits, making these children particularly vulnerable. A further possibility is that these children are generally physiologically more vulnerable to infections and illnesses than older children. One likely consequence of these infections is a drop in Nutritional Status – more energy being required to fight the infections coupled with a potential loss of appetite. It proved to be difficult even with the assistance of an Events Calendar and strong Expatriate supervision to gain truly valid information about the age of the children in certain cases. However, even given this difficulty the Height for Age distribution curve would indicate that stunting is a significant problem. This could be expected, given the context of civil war and the breakdown of central authority that the IDPs have been living in for the last 5 years. As usual there is a difference in the rate of malnutrition when a comparison is made between the Z score results and the % of the Median results. However in both cases the situation is poor. Although no statistical comparison can be made between clusters, it was observed that malnutrition appeared to not be universal in the IDP camps. Camps in South Mogadishu appear to be in a worse state than those in the North. The IDP camps sampled are those where ACF has access – for referral to Therapeutic Feeding Centres, for Health Education sessions, and for Water and Sanitation work. Some other camps are being accessed by other agencies. But globally, it would be fair to say that the camps that were sampled are generally better supported than other camps around the city. Consequently, there is a high probability that the situation in those camps not sampled by ACF is worse than that outlined above. The hypothesis has been put forward that the population of the IDP camps surveyed was one of the groups of the overall Mogadishu population that was considered the most 25
Page 1 and 2: Action Contre la Faim Jon CUNLIFFE
Page 3 and 4: ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The Action Contre
Page 5 and 6: FEEDING CENTRE COVERAGE Feeding Cen
Page 7 and 8: INTRODUCTION Mogadishu needs little
Page 9 and 10: OBJECTIVES • To quantify malnutri
Page 11 and 12: this was not always possible, and a
Page 13 and 14: ARI: (Acute Respiratory Infection).
Page 15 and 16: RESULTS The data processing and ana
Page 17 and 18: Height for Age Distribution Curve F
Page 19 and 20: 4.2 Distribution in % of the Median
Page 21 and 22: WHZ < -3 Z STD -3STD
Page 23: 8. Mortality rate and Causes of Mor
Page 27 and 28: Mortality In global, the overall fi

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