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Donors prompt response curbs spread of outbreak
Sudan’s Health Minister Bahr Idriss Abu-Garda with representatives of DFID, ECHO, and USAID received additional yellow fever vaccine at Khartoum International Airport.23 January 2013 - More than three million people were vaccinated against yellow fever in Darfur during the first and second phases of the vaccination campaign conducted between the...
Yellow fever update, 10 January 2013
ECHO supports the yellow fever emergency vaccination campaign in Darfur which commenced in November 2012.Phase II of the yellow fever vaccination campaign covered around 1.1 million population or 93% of the targeted population in South, West and Central Darfur. The outbreak has affected 35 localities in Central, South, West, North, and East...
Yellow fever vaccination campaign in Darfur continues
Swedish Ambassador J. Sadek, WHO Representative Dr A. Banerjee joined Health Minister B. Idriss Abu-Garda as he received around 1.3 million doses of yellow fever vaccine at Khartoum International Airport. 11 December 2012 - The first phase of the vaccination campaign ended on 7 December 2012. Results for the first phase are under way as...
Yellow fever outbreak in Sudan update, 26 November 2012
A joint Ministry of Health and WHO mission was in Darfur to assess the yellow fever outbreak Highlights As of 25 November 2012, 48% of the target population in West Darfur, 12% in Central Darfur, 19.9% in North Darfur and 6% in South Darfur were vaccinated against yellow fever in a 12-day vaccination campaign. Vaccination campaigns in targeted...
Yellow fever vaccination campaign begins in Darfur, 23 November
People gathered in one of the yellow fever vaccination points in El Geneina, West Darfur23 November 2012 - Thousands gathered in vaccination points in targeted localities in Darfur as Sudan’s Federal Ministry together with its health partners started a 12-day emergency response vaccination campaign. Some 2.2 million population in 12 prioritized...
Yellow fever outbreak in Sudan update, 18 November 2012
Localities affected by yellow fever are highlighted in red.Sudan’s Federal Ministry of Health received the initial 800 000 doses of yellow fever vaccine on Friday, 16 November 2012, from the International Coordinating Group on Vaccine (ICG) to conduct an emergency response vaccination campaign in Darfur. The remaining doses from the commitment of...
Sudan intensifies emergency response against yellow fever
Yellow fever patients are being carefully treated in seven isolation wards in affected Darfur states.13 November 2012 – Sudan’s Federal Ministry of Health (FMoH) and the World Health Organization (WHO) are mobilizing 2.4 million doses of yellow fever vaccine provided by the International Coordinating Group on Vaccine (ICG) in order to conduct an...
Yellow fever outbreak in Darfur, 9 November 2012
Most suspected yellow fever patients being treated at the isolation wards of Nyala Teaching Hospital in South Darfur’s capital are from Central Darfur9 November 2012 – The yellow fever outbreak has now affected 20 localities in Central, South, West and North Darfur. As of 8 November 2012, 266 suspected cases have been reported, including 85...
Yellow fever hits Central and South Darfur
2 November 2012 – Sudan’s Federal Ministry of Health has notified the World Health Organization (WHO) of a yellow fever outbreak in nine localities in West, Central and South Darfur. Since the last week of September, a total of 103 suspected cases, including 42 deaths, have been reported from the districts of Zalengei, Nertity, Wadisalih, Azoom,...
Blood donation media campaign kicks off
Federal Minister of Health, WHO Representative in Sudan, and National Blood Transfusion Services Manager during a press conference on 22 October 201222 October 2012 – A three month-long mass media campaign carrying the theme “Be a Hero, Donate Blood” kicks off today to call upon the public to become a hero by voluntarily giving blood and save the...
