Acute watery diarrhoea (AWD) has affected Sudan since August 2016, infecting over 36 000 people and killing over 800. Over the next 3 weeks, read along as we introduce you to the people living with and fighting against this deadly disease. This week: Hammad Yousif Ibrahim (42) from Kosti, White Nile State, was treated for life-threatening AWD at...

WHO Representative for Sudan, Dr Naeema Al Gasseer, speaks at the launch of Sudan’s first ever joint annual review of the health sector 7 November 2017 – On 6 and 7 November, around 300 partners from all parts of Sudan’s health sector are gathering in Khartoum to launch the country’s first ever joint annual review of the health sector (JAR)....

WHO staff in South Darfur fight AWD with the help of local communities (Photo: Afeef Mohamed Ali/WHO Sudan) 24 September 2017 – With Sudan’s rainy season underway, the risk of AWD spreading more quickly has increased. Potential risk factors include increasing breeding sites for insects, decreasing quality of water and sanitation facilities, and...

Trainers, participants and WHO staff at today’s AWD management training, making the “zero cases” hand gesture (Photo: Simon van Woerden/WHO Sudan) 12 September, 2017 -Today in Khartoum, a team of experts from WHO’s partner the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research in Bangladesh (icddr,b) trained the first of two batches of 35...

In Hai Aljabal, a community of approximately 4,000 people in El Geneina, West Darfur, trash is not always cleaned up immediately. When trash or “solid waste” lies around, it can become a breeding ground for flies, insects and other so-called vectors which can spread Acute Watery Diarrhoea (AWD) and other diseases. However, thanks to WHO...

Every day, WHO staff are at work saving lives and improving the health of the people of Sudan. On World Humanitarian Day, we celebrate humanitarian aid workers by shining a light on their work. Meet Abdelrahman, Primary Health Care Officer in North Darfur. WHO's Abdelrahman Sharief, inspecting a child in Zamzam IDP camp (Photo: Abdelrahman...

Every day, WHO staff are at work saving lives and improving the health of the people of Sudan. On World Humanitarian Day, we celebrate humanitarian aid workers by shining a light on their work. Meet Wafeeg Babiker Abu Elnoor, National Public Health Officer in Kassala. Wafeeg (third from right) during a supervision mission (Photo: Wafeeg Babiker Abu...

5 May 2017 – The Federal Ministry of Health, in collaboration with WHO organized a capacity development workshop for hospital managers in Sudan between 18 and 25 April 2017 aiming to provide hospital managers with an understanding of hospital management issues that will help them to improve service delivery and enhance their knowledge and skills to...

About 720 000 children under one year of age in Sudan will be vaccinated this year against meningitis through the routine immunization system. Khartoum, 28 July 2016 – Children in Sudan are set to become the first in the meningitis belt to benefit from the introduction of meningitis A vaccine into a routine immunization programme. The vaccine,...

Khartoum, 1 June 2016 - The State leadership of the Federal Ministry of Health in Sudan with the support of WHO and partnerships launched, on 22 May 2016, a 10-day subnational measles campaign targeting more than 4 million children aged six months to 15 years in 6 States in Sudan. This campaign, which is being implemented in (West Kordufan, Blue...