The preliminary results of an Action Contre la Faim (ACF) nutritional survey in October in Gulu’s displaced people’s camps found a significant improvement in the nutritional situation. ACF said both severe and global malnutrition had decreased in the population surveyed. “It appears that many of the remaining cases of severe malnutrition reflect either a particularly vulnerable social situation or a temporary lack of adequate food and water for children, perhaps due to intense efforts at cultivation away from camps over the past months,” OCHA reported. A similar assessment was now underway in Kitgum and results should be available in December. OCHA said many IDPs in Gulu and Kitgum were spending more time working on their farms during the daytime.
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