Cameroon: Severe Acute Malnutrition - Cameroon Witnesses Appreciable Improvements in 2018

The latest Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys, MICS/National Institute of Statistics report for shows that the national average rose to 2 per cent, compared to 1.3 per cent in 2014. Nevertheless, the 2018 survey presents a general decline in Severe Acute

Results of the latest world-wide household study on the situation of children and women - the Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys - conducted by the United Nations Children's Fund, UNICEF, were released officially recently. A comparative analysis of the data on Cameroon for 2018 published by UNICEF and the National Institute of Statistics, NIS, shows significant improvements in the situation of Severe Acute Malnutrition, SAM in the country's 10 administrative regions and two largest cities of Yaounde and Douala.

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