Provision of Health and Nutrition Services to under five children, pregnant and lactating women in Ghorband district of Parwan Province, Yosuf Khil District of Paktika province,and Daychopan district of Zabul province The main problem for PLW and children under five is the lack of access to nutrient food. As per Afghanistan need overview 2022“Afghanistan continues to have one of highest rates of child stunting (36.6 per cent) which has serious implications for children’s long-term physical and cognitive development that need for mothers to take with good nutrient food. 
As per Nutrition cluster overview from Jan – 31 Aug 2022, 7.8 million PIN, among them 5.9 million targeted and 4.7 Million reached. Therefore, need for continuation of the Nutrition activities is existed for remained 1.2 Million. 
Infectious diseases, poor maternal and newborn health, and malnutrition are still substantial cause of mortality and morbidity, the largest proportion of deaths 42.6 % caused by communicable, maternal, prenatal, and nutrition conditions.
The proposed project will contribute to reduce morbidity and mortality due to malnutrition among the children under five, and PLW in Dai Chopan of Zabul , Ghorband of Parwan and Yosufkhil of Paktiak province through three MHNTs . This project intends to: i)  treat 625 children under five with SAM (208 in Daichopan of Zabul, 208 in Ghorban of Parwan and 209 in Yousaf Khail of Paktika province), ii) treat 1670 children under 5 with MAM( 556 in Daichopan of Zabul, 556 in Ghorband of Parwan and 558 in Yousaf Khail of Paktika province) and iii) treat 1150 PLWs with acute malnutrition (383 in Daichopan of Zabul, 383 in Ghorbad of Parwan and 384 in Yousaf Khail of Paktika province. The mobile teams will provide basic health care services, focusing on identification, treatment, referral, and prevention of acute and moderate malnutrition in the areas through measuring Hight and weigth which are not covered by existing BPHS IP, awareness raising on balance diet, nutrition counselling and provision of referral services for SAM that need Inpatient Department (IPD) services will be the main services of the mobile team. Under this project, totally 14119 people will be targeted through project’s services. Also, MoPH key messages will be spread out in the communities through awareness raising sessions and communities will be informed through Imams of mosques and elders on Covid 19 prevention. The population of Ghorband is 54110, Ypsufkhil is 29703 and Daychopan is 45285 individuals. Upon project approval, a complete list of target villages and population covered by this project will be prepared in coordination with local authorities, like-minded actors and community people we will fix the exact number of population of the targeted villages.
There are three MHNTs working in three districts for Children and women each team consisted of one MD doctor, a midwife, Nurse, Vaccinator, PSS and a nutrition counselor. The MD doctor can diagnose the diseases and malnutrition children and women, the midwife aware the women about the child delivery and keeping their children healthy by providing some extra supplementary food available locally, register SAM, MAM and PLWs that required supplementary nutrient powder and Biscuit provided by WFP through their GFD partner. The Nurse will provide immediate services and the Psychological and social counselor give advises and consultations to the women and children that they have mental and psychological problem. Also, two (Male and female) trainers will train the community on Malnutrition. In addition, two community health and nutrition mobilizers will work with community for better food intakes.