Kirer Koleka is patiently standing at the back of a queue with her one-year-old daughter strapped to her back and her six-year-year old daughter by her side. Kirer and her daughters are waiting to receive an essential item, mosquito nets, required to prevent malaria which is endemic in South Sudan. Kirer and her family […]
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A small makeshift raft made from plastic sheeting and filled with dry grass is drifting along the Nile River’s current, on it sits an entire family of eight – the youngest just a baby. Where they will end up is hopefully not as bad as what they have left behind. On this small raft […]
By Michael Lawson, MSF Canada’s humanitarian affairs officer, and Léo Tremblay, a meteorologist with MSF’s Meteorological and Climate Assistance initiative South Sudan is no stranger to crises. More than eight million people in the country are estimated to be in need of humanitarian assistance as a result of displacement, food insecurity and exposure to violence, […]
Violent conflict amongst armed factions in Upper Nile and Greater Fangak – located in the north of South Sudan – has led to deaths and serious injuries of hundreds of people, and displaced tens of thousands from their homes during the past two months. Catastrophic flooding and impeded access for humanitarian organisations to deliver essential […]
For more than 20 years, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams have been confronted with outbreaks of hepatitis E; frustrated by its impact on patients, and unable to treat it or offer a vaccination. This changed as MSF, together with the South Sudan Ministry of Health, carried out the world’s first vaccination campaign against […]
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In a global first, health workers in South Sudan have carried out a vaccination campaign in response to an outbreak of hepatitis E, raising hopes in the fight against a disease that is especially fatal for pregnant women. Hepatitis E is the most common cause of acute viral hepatitis, causing approximately 20 million infections […]
The British Government and other donors must urgently reinstate funding to South Sudan, after millions of dollars in support to the national healthcare system was recently withdrawn, said the medical humanitarian organisation Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). The Health Pooled Fund (HPF) is the largest donor-financing mechanism for healthcare in South Sudan. The funding provides access […]
After fleeing their homes more than two months ago, tens of thousands of people are still left without basic necessities in Twic County, says Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). Despite repeated calls by MSF, the humanitarian community in South Sudan has failed to scale up assistance to people who have largely been left without […]
The latest violence that erupted on April 4, 2022, in Leer County in South Sudan has resulted in the deaths of dozens of civilians, including a Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) staff member. This is the second MSF staff member that has been killed in Leer due to extreme violence since December 2021. Peter Mathor […]
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A pilot project in Aweil helps prevent infection and serious illness among young children most at risk. “I will stay here until she gets better,” said Rebecca Achol Atak while sitting next to her granddaughter’s bed in Aweil State Hospital in Northern Bahr el Ghazal, South Sudan. Atong had suffered from severe fever and vomiting […]
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