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- Wednesday 27 February 2013
February 26, 2013 (JUBA) – An internal report obtained by Sudan Tribune has found that the majority of health facilities in South Sudan lack essential medicines.
Child receiving Tuberculosis medicine in South Sudan with support from (...)
- Sunday 29 July 2012
By Julius N. Uma
July 28, 2012 (JUBA) - At least two, out of every 10,000 children die daily as a result of the recent outbreak of acute diarrhea disease, in South Sudan’s Unity State, where some 57,000 refugees are currently settled, (...)
- Monday 25 March 2013
March 23, 2012 (NAIROBI) - The efficiency of the RTS,S vaccine, designed to protect humans from the malaria parasite, varies with exposure to the disease and fades over time, a new study shows.
Researchers from KEMRI-Wellcome Trust (...)
- Friday 26 April 2013
April 25, 2013 (JUBA/KHARTOUM) – South Sudan joined in global commemorations on Wednesday marking World Malaria Day, with the government saying it was confident of eradicating the killer disease. The WHO conducted a three-day free (...)
- Wednesday 20 February 2013
February 19, 2012 (JUBA) - A leading global non-profit organisation dedicated to the comprehensive control of malaria and other communicable diseases, has won an award for operational excellence in South Sudan.
The Malaria (...)
- Monday 29 October 2012
MSF addresses unprecedented malaria outbreak in Aweil
Sharp increase in malaria cases seen in MSF health facilities throughout South Sudan in 2012
Juba, October 29, 2012 – An unprecedented malaria outbreak affecting Northern (...)
- Saturday 4 August 2012
July 3, 2012 (JUBA) - The United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) and its partners have intensified efforts to reverse the alarming rates of malnutrition, disease and death in the two South Sudan based camps hosting thousands of Sudanese (...)
- Sunday 16 September 2012
By Bonifacio Taban Kuich
September 14, 2012 (BENTIU) - Many of the over three thousand people who have been displaced by flooding in from villages around Unity State capital, Bentui - following heavy rainfall from June until September (...)
- Sunday 5 August 2012
August 4, 2012 (BENTIU) – Cases of malaria are increasing daily in Benitu hospital. In July 1,216 patients were diagnosed with malaria, diarrhoea and pneumonia of which four adults and five children died of diarrhoea and malaria. (...)
- Friday 27 April 2012
By Tesfa-Alem Tekle
April 25, 2012 (JUBA) – The Government of South Sudan (GoSS) has vowed to work towards eradicating malaria from the nation with preventive and health education mechanisms. A woman at a health clinic in Terekeka, (...)
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