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...

19 February 2016 - A WHO-supported training course on vaccine management was held in Khartoum last week, bringing together cold chain officers, physicians, epidemiologists, and technical focal points from the Ministry of Health’s Expanded Programme on Immunization, WHO, UNICEF and nongovernmental organizations. The purpose of the training was to instruct...

Dr Naeema Al Gasseer, WHO Representative to Sudan, giving a dose of vitamin A to a child during the polio campaign in Sudan from 2 to 4 November 20158 November 2015 – More than 4 million children under the age of 5 have been targeted with oral polio vaccine during a 3-day national immunization day campaign in Sudan. The campaign, which was...

Cholera risk assessment mission to internally displaced people camps in White Nile State. Photo credit: WHO/Lorenzo PezzoliKhartoum, 17 August 2015 -- The Federal and State Ministries of Health, with the support of WHO, conducted an assessment mission last week to enhance country support in the face of a potential cholera outbreak and determine...