More than 300,000 children under the age of five are acutely undernourished and 1.3 million children under the age of five are stunted and at risk of not growing or developing to their full potential. Stunting has a substantial negative impact on under-five mortality,learning, and productivity.
Almost 700,000 children have missed out on routine immunizations, leaving them at risk of measles and other vaccine-preventable infectious diseases. And nearly five million children are missing vitamin A supplements, putting them at risk of infections and blindness. Lack of full access to essential health care services for new-born, child and maternal healthcare, nutrition and immunizations are threatening the lives of children and mothers in the country.
Estimated 5.2 million people in Myanmar lack access to basic water, sanitation and hygiene facilities, of which, 52 % are women and 34 % are children. Assess to WASH services have been disrupted due to multiple challenges of delivering humanitarian assistances, including water supply and sanitation services, leading to a further deterioration of the WASH situation in the country following the ongoing conflict and humanitarian crises.
Over the next two years we will support mobile clinics, recruit and train community health workers to provide community healthcare including hygiene promotion, disease prevention and detecting and preventing malnutrition , support local authorities to deliver quality healthcare and protect and promote nutrition of children and mothers, ensure vulnerable families have access to safe water, sanitation and hygiene facilities, support partners to do more work on nutrition, and provide information to families so that they can detect and prevent malnutrition themselves.
STRATEGIC GOAL 3: Our goal is to ensure that children, adolescents and their families are protected from preventable diseases and avoidable deaths through access to essential health, nutrition, safe water, sanitation and hygiene services.
