Highlights
For 2012, the annual caseload of severe acute malnutrition (SAM) across the Sahel Band was estimated at 127,300 children under five years of age based on August 2011 nutrition survey results. As of September, 114,837 cases of SAM have been admitted for treatment (90.2% of the target). As the number of implementation sites and the number of admissions continue to increase and GAM rate is 18.9% in June 2012 SMART survey across the Sahel belt, UNICEF estimates that the number of expected cases for treatment of severe acute malnutrition is likely to exceed 2012 original.
A slight decrease in the rate of admissions for severe acute malnutrition (SAM) between August and September 2012 was recorded (14,241 in September versus 14,661 in August).
An additional 17 outpatient therapeutic program (OTP) centres were opened between July and August 2012. UNICEF is currently supporting 384 centres in the Sahel belt of which there are 32 inpatient facilities (IPFs) for treatment of SAM with complications and 352 OTPs for outpatient treatment.
More than 700,000 people are being affected by flooding nationwide, with 70,000 people displaced.