Kodok — Pregnant and breastfeeding women are the demographic group most at risk of malnutrition in South Sudan after children, making up some 12 percent of all those on supplementary feeding programmes.
Such women's vulnerability can be largely attributed to the higher nutritional needs associated with supporting a foetus or nursing an infant.
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