Highlights
• UNICEF and MSF Holland organized a campaign of malaria presumptive treatment screening 29,731 children 6 months to 5 years in Bentiu Protection of Civilian (PoC) site for fever. Fifty-four per cent of those screened, 16,112 children, were treated for malaria.
• On 22 September, UNICEF, WFP and partners deployed two RRM missions to Koch and Buaw in Koch County, to deliver multi-sectoral assistance to highly vulnerable populations. This is the first time that large scale lifesaving assistance has been provided in the county since violence broke in May 2015. The UNICEF team will be screening and treating children under 5 for malnutrition; providing immunization services to children under 15 and pregnant women; delivering WASH supplies; and identifying and registering unaccompanied and separated children. UNICEF, in coordination with other actors will also be delivering survival kits.
• UNICEF in collaboration with state Ministries of Health, WHO and health partners launched the first of two rounds of Sub-National Immunization Days (SNIDs) in five states: Lakes, Warrap, Jonglei, Upper Nile and Unity. The campaign will deliver two successive doses of Oral Polio Vaccine targeting 1,927,256 children under 5 in response to the case of circulating Vaccine-Derived Polio Virus (cDVPV) detected in Mayom County. It aims at rapidly building up a high population immunity to interrupt the circulation of the cVDPV.