By Simon Deng Low funding, misinformation and insecurity are setting back the COVID-19 vaccine drive in South Sudan, Sacha Bootsma,...
By Chondok Stephen Magei Despite a respite in the floods in the country, communities living around the oil fields in...
By Simon Deng South Sudan has secured funding to run the Infectious Disease Unit for a third of the year, Dr. John Rumunu, the COVID-19 Incident Manager at the country’s Ministry of Health said. The Infectious Disease Unit is taking the lead in combatting COVID-19 in the country. “We had...
By Paul Jimbo The National and the Central Equatoria State Ministry of Animal Resources, Fisheries and Tourism have launched a...
By Tapeng Michael Ohure South Sudan has relaunched a guideline that will help the country in combating the HIV pandemic. The...
By Simon Deng An outbreak of whooping cough in Cueibet County of South Sudan’s Lakes State has claimed the life of two children, John Rumunu, the Director General for Preventive Health Services said. Whooping cough is a highly infectious respiratory disease caused by the bacterium Bordetella pertussis. Pertussis is known for...
By Ruot George Aid workers at Maban County hospital in Upper Nile State have have returned to work after a...
By Chondok Stephen Magei Flood waters are subsiding in South Sudan but malaria is taking toll in some of the...
By WHO in South Sudan Kai Koang, at the crack of dawn on a Tuesday morning, armed with his loud megaphone tightly held to his mouth and moving from house-to-house, stormed site D of the highly populated Bentiu internally displaced persons (IDP) camp passing on good news – on the...
Tapeng Michael OhurePlans to vaccinate communities in 20 counties in South Sudan as a preventive measure against cholera are complete...
By Tapeng Michael Ohure Ngok Joseph Maker Gordon was in excruciating pain since 2019 when a needle pierced his ear....
By Simon Deng South Sudan’s health ministry says it plans to vaccinate people in flood affected areas against cholera beginning this week. “At the movement we are working with our partners to effect oral cholera vaccination in all flood affected areas, we have identified 20 counties as at risk and...