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56: 542: 63: 43: 270:(SCiSS). The study found high rates of acute malnutrition and poor child health indicators. These poor indicators included: high percentage of diarrhoea cases among the population, low measles immunity and low levels of vitamin A among the population. The rates of 332: 247:. The county is prone to drought and the population is nomadic, sometimes migrating to other locations in search of water and pasture for their livestock. Due to the insecurity associated with military conflict between 380: 282:
emergency levels. The researchers concluded that may be the feeding programme started in 2009 was enough to prevent some deaths, or that the more vulnerable died during the civil strife of 2009.
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census, the population of Akobo County was estimated at 136,210. Of these, 60,896 (44.7%) were female and 75,314 (55.3%) were male.
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In 2010, a nutrition survey of young children was carried out by
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The county is one of the eleven (11) counties that constitute
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County

Akobo County is located in South Sudan
07°56′N 33°00′E / 7.933°N 33.000°E / 7.933; 33.000
South Sudan
Greater Upper Nile
State
Jonglei State
Akobo
Time zone
UTC+2
CAT
county
South Sudan
Jonglei State
Greater Upper Nile
South Sudan
Ethiopia
Akobo
Juba
Jonglei State
Sudan
South Sudan
Ethiopia
Medair
Save the Children in Southern Sudan
Global Acute Malnutrition
World Health Organization
WHO
South Sudanese

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