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- 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 (...)
- 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 (...)
- Friday 15 March 2013
March 13, 2013 (JUBA) - South Sudan and several international partners have signed an agreement which recommits them to the fight and control of malaria in the new country by 2018.
The five-year program, spearheaded by the ministry (...)
- 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, (...)
- 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, (...)
- 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 (...)
- 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. (...)
- 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 (...)
- Monday 31 January 2005
ABUJA, Nigeria, Jan 31, 2005 (AP) - African leaders at a continent-wide summit grappled Monday with how to halt the spread of diseases that kill thousands of their people daily and hit economic growth across the world’s poorest (...)
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