Find and treat campaigns
Find and treat campaigns began in August 2021. By Aug 2022, 20 Woredas had carried out find and treat campaigns reaching 88% of the targeted children U5 (209,181) and 98% of PLWs (55,957) with MUAC screening and providing treatment for the malnourished while linking them with a follow-up OTP or SC site.
In Aug 2022, a F& T campaigns was held in Tselemti and Mai Tsebri Woredas jointly and the proxy GAM rate was 29% while the proxy-SAM rate was 3.6%. In all the 20 Woredas, the average proxy-SAM rate was 3.6% while the average proxy-GAM rate was 28.6%. A total of 917 children had bilateral pitting oedema.
Of the PLW screened, 67% had MUAC <23cm showing high malnutrition rates among PLW.
The 14 F&T campaigns conducted in 2022 enabled the finding and referral of 6,262 new SAM cases, which is 6.8% of the yearly regional target of 92,650 The find and treat campaigns are useful in estimating the nutrition needs in the different Woredas.
Source: UN Children’s Fund