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Situation Overview and Humanitarian Needs
• The prevalence of acute malnutrition among children in Karamoja is at a serious level (13.1 per cent) with Moroto (21.9 per cent) and Kaabong (19.6 per cent) being the most affected.
• A total of 22,740 children with severe wasting in the region require urgent treatment.
• Main drivers are food insecurity (over the last three years, food insecurity in the sub-region has increased from 29 per cent in 2020 to 55 per cent in 2022); diarrhea and fever/malaria associated with rainy season which compounds the situation of already malnourished children.
• As part of the initial response to the worsening malnutrition situation, UNICEF aims at increasing coverage for outpatient and-and in-patient therapeutic care through mass community-level screening for acute wasting and integrated community out-reaches especially for the hard-to-reach communities in the region.
• To improve access to safe drinking water, UNICEF will rehabilitate 40 boreholes from 4 districts of Moroto,
Karenga, Nabilatuk and Kabong alongside sanitation improvement intervention.