WHO Regional Director Dr Ahmed Al-Mandhari (third on left) attending Sudan's celebration on World Polio Day in Khartoum on 24 October 2019 Khartoum, 27 October 2019 – The Government of Sudan, in partnership with World Health Organization (WHO), the United Nations Children’s Funds (UNICEF) and other health partners supporting the national polio...

Attributable to the Federal Ministry of Health in Sudan, WHO and UNICEF KHARTOUM, 11 October 2019 - “Sudan has launched an oral cholera vaccination campaign in response to the ongoing outbreak of cholera. More than 1.6 million people aged one year and above in the Blue Nile and Sinnar states will be vaccinated over the coming five days. “The...

8 October 2019, Khartoum, Sudan – Ahead of the launch of the oral cholera vaccination campaign this week, the World Health Organization (WHO) is training the health care providers, vaccinators and health volunteers who will be on the ground vaccinating at least 1.6 million people in the states of Blue Nile and Sinnar. More than 280 trainers from WHO...

25 September, 2019 – A shipment of 36 tons of cholera treatment medicines and supplies have arrived in Khartoum and are being prepared for distribution as part of the World Health Organization’s response activities supporting the Federal Ministry of Health in Sudan to contain and halt a cholera outbreak. The shipment includes 5000 rapid...

Khartoum, 11 September 2019 – The World Health Organization (WHO) is working closely with national health authorities and partners to respond to cases of cholera in Blue Nile State in south-eastern Sudan. Between 28 August and 10 September, Sudan’s Federal Ministry of Health reported at least 51 cases of acute watery diarrhoea in Blue Nile State,...

Khartoum, Sudan, 24 July 2019 – WHO has finalized a 3-day training of trainers for Ministry of Health staff in Sudan on the use and application of the strategic tool for assessing risk (STAR). The STAR tool was developed by WHO to assess and prioritize risks to support planning for health emergencies as stipulated by the International Health...

WHO technical Officer administers the measles vaccine to a child in South Darfur StateKhartoum, 8 April 2019 – The Federal Ministry of Health in Sudan, in collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO), Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, and the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) today launched a large-scale vaccination campaign in Sudan to...

20 March 2019 – The Federal Ministry of Health, in collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO), Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, and UNICEF has launched a large-scale mass vaccination campaign in Sudan to vaccinate over 8.3 million people aged from 9 months to 60 years against yellow fever in the states of Blue Nile, Gezira and Sennar...

11 March 2019 – As the civil unrest in Sudan continues, WHO expresses extreme concern about reports of attacks on health staff, and is working to verify this information. “People in Sudan, including vulnerable migrants, refugees, and displaced populations are in urgent need of health care services. Health staff in Sudan are already working under...

Khartoum, 10 March 2019 – WHO, the Federal Ministry of Health of Sudan and the Royal Tropical Institute of Amsterdam, have just concluded a 2-week training of trainers workshop on strengthening a decentralized health system to attain universal health coverage projects in Sudan. The training, held in the National Medical Supplies Fund Training...