South Sudan: Urgent action needed to address growing cholera outbreak
November 21, 2024There is an imminent need to improve sanitation and hygiene for many living in overcrowded conditions to prevent the further spread of disease. Juba, 13 November 2024: Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has set up a 20-bed cholera treatment unit (CTU)...
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South Sudan: The overlooked mental health crisis: Navigating unforgettable loss and the struggle to heal
October 10, 2024In South Sudan, mental health issues are overshadowed by poverty, violence, and displacement. Neglected by the health system and confronted by deep-rooted stigma, many people face their mental health struggles in silence, enduring a daily battle that goes unseen and...
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MSF suspends medical activities in Yei, Central Equatoria state, following attack on staff
September 26, 2024Juba - Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has suspended all outreach activities in Yei, in Central Equatoria state, South Sudan, until further notice, following a critical security incident involving MSF staff and staff from a partner organisation on Friday, 20 September 2024. We...
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Sudan: Fighting in El Fasher remains incessant despite UNSC resolution, warns MSF; civilians are trapped and no aid can enter the city
June 23, 2024Nine days since the UN Security Council called for an end to the fighting in El Fasher, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) – one of the few international humanitarian organisations still present in the city – warns that hospitals continue to...
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Sudan war is exacerbating humanitarian needs in neighbouring South Sudan, warns MSF
June 19, 202418 June 2024, Juba – The ongoing war in Sudan is drastically increasing people’s needs across the border in South Sudan, alerts international medical organisation Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) today. MSF calls for an immediate scale-up of lifesaving...
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South Sudan: How malnutrition is dangerously feeding the TB/HIV pandemic
May 30, 2024In South Sudan, over seven million people are expected to face acute food insecurity or worse between now and July. Among them, patients who are infected with tuberculosis and HIV are highly impacted since the intensity of the treatment is...
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Returning to South Sudan after the civil war: “How are we again going to survive?”
May 22, 2024After years of conflict, the struggle to return homeIn the early morning in Kajo Keji, Central Equatoria, what used to be a very busy market slowly opens. A few people set up their stands, while small groups of children in...
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South Sudan: health workers bring lifeline to remote areas
May 21, 2024Amid insecurity, semi-nomadic populations, just like the rest of South Sudan, suffer from climate change, causing both increased flooding and more severe droughts. In the latest years, water and food has been scarce, and cattle keepers and farmers had to...
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In Sudan, “the needs are growing by the day, but the response is deeply inadequate”
April 9, 2024The following statement from Dr Christos Christou, International President, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), outlines the dire situation for people caught up in the war in Sudan ahead of the first anniversary of the start of the conflict. “Sudan is one of the...
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South Sudan: MSF calls for urgent response in Renk and Bulukat transit sites to prevent deadly outbreaks
February 21, 2024Juba, 21 February 2024 – A humanitarian crisis is escalating in Bulukat and Renk, two of the busiest transit sites in South Sudan’s Upper Nile state, warns international medical organisation Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) today. Thousands of people...
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Amid deadly hepatitis E outbreak, MSF launches mass vaccination campaign in South Sudan to reach remote communities and prevent more deaths
January 30, 2024In response to a deadly hepatitis E outbreak in South Sudan, MSF has launched a vaccination campaign in collaboration with the Ministry of Health to provide protection to women and girls of reproductive age, who are at greatest risk of...
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South Sudan: Unshattered hope in the face of adversities
November 10, 2023Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) marks 40 years of its services in the region that now constitutes South Sudan. Over the past four decades, MSF has been on the frontlines of humanitarian aid, delivering life-saving medical assistance to those...
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