Gaza 14 June 2012: Fifty international charities and United Nations Agencies have unanimously called for the lifting of the blockade of Gaza. The organizations have published a simple three line statement to mark the fifth anniversary of the tightening of the blockade of the Strip.

It reads:

For over five years in Gaza, more than 1.6 million people have been under blockade in violation of international law. More than half of these people are children. We the undersigned say with one voice: “end the blockade now.”

The present nutrition and health survey was carried out in the Katakwi district of Uganda to assess the nutritional and health status of the population after the floods which hit the Region of Teso from July to October 2007.

Data were collected from December 14th to 21st, 2007. The methodology follows SMART guidelines using a two stage 30x30 cluster sampling. A total of 922 children were surveyed for anthropometry and morbidity and 4501 people for the mortality rates.

Table 1 shows the main anthropometric, mortality and morbidity results.