Khartoum, Sudan, 2 August 2018 – The Federal Ministry of Health, with support from WHO today concluded a 3-day workshop on accountability assessment of the health system and services for members of the accountability assessment taskforce. The workshop marked the participation of 50 professional from the Federal and State ministries of health, in...

Khartoum, Sudan, 26 July 2018 – WHO, in support of Sudan’s Federal Ministry of Health, has prepositioned vital medicines and medical supplies for more than 3 million beneficiaries as part of the national emergency preparedness plan for the upcoming rainy season. The supplies include rapid response kits for a population of about 3 million people;...

Consensus meeting to address ECSA findings, Khartoum, Sudan, 23 July 2018 (Photo: WHO).24 July 2018 – The Federal Ministry of Health in Sudan, with support from WHO and in collaboration with emergency care partners and stakeholders, have concluded a consensus meeting to address the gaps identified by the Emergency Care System Assessment (ECSA)...

22 July 2018 – Sudan’s Federal Ministry of Health, Ministry of Animal Resources and Fisheries, Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry and WHO, in collaboration with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, World Organisation for Animal Health and the United Nations Environment Programme, have launched the Sudanese national...

Khartoum, Sudan, 17 July 2018 - Sudan’s Federal Ministry of Health, with the support of the World Health Organization (WHO), and the United Nations International Children’s Fund (UNICEF) launched a national immunization campaign to maintain the country's polio-free status. The National Immunization Days (NID) will be conducted over two phases, with...

16 July 2018 – WHO and health partners in Sudan have launched a 1-year project to rehabilitate and equip 5 health clinics and support 4 others in East Jebel Marra, South Darfur, in a bid to improve health services for 242 000 displaced people. The clinics are considered a priority in an area which has had limited access to health services for more...

Khartoum, Sudan, 8 July 2018 – The World Health Organization (WHO), in partnership with Sudan’s Federal Ministry of Health and with a generous contribution from the Government of Japan, has jointly launched a one-year project to strengthen the decentralization of the health system in 5 of Sudan’s 18 states. Forty-six localities and administrative...

Public Health Institute in Sudan21 June 2018 – The World Health Organization, in collaboration with the Federal Ministry of Health and Public Health Institute in Khartoum, Sudan, held an intersectoral training workshop from 29 to 31 May 2018 on the Health-in-All-Policies (HiAP) approach. The workshop was the first to be rolled out in Sudan. It...

Trainees receive instruction from EMERGENCY staff (Photo: Simon van Woerden/WHO Sudan). From 25 February to 1 March 2018, a total of 30 workshop participants learned about the finer details of dealing with mass casualty incidents at the Salam Centre for Cardiac Surgery - such as large traffic accidents, explosions, or anything else that...

School Girls waiting for their turn for a health checkup as part of School Health Program in El-Obeid, North Kordofan state, Sudan 2017 WHO/M. ElaminFebruary 2018 – Nine years ago, one community in Sudan decided to follow WHO recommendations and abandon the practice of female genital mutilation (FGM). Since then, Tuti Island, a community of 21...