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Cross-border meeting in Sudan promises stronger coordination to prevent polio spread
28 December 2022 – Like any other infectious or communicable diseases, polioviruses do not recognize international borders. They do, however, recognize and spread effortlessly among young children with low immunity. To prevent any spread of polioviruses in their region, from 21-22 December 2022, Sudan’s Federal Ministry of Health hosted...
Press Release: Sudan launches a catch-up campaign against polio and yellow fever
KHARTOUM, 28 December 2022 – Tomorrow the Federal Ministry of Health in Sudan, in collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) will launch a catch-up vaccination campaign to vaccinate children against polio and yellow fever from 29 December 2022 to 3 January 2023. This campaign will cover...
Circulating variant type 2 (cVDPV2) poliovirus outbreak confirmed in Sudan
KHARTOUM, 22 December 2022 – On 16 December 2022, a case of a variant type 2 poliovirus (cVDPV2) was confirmed in a young boy aged four years in West Darfur, Sudan. The virus detected is most closely related to a strain circulating in Borno, Nigeria, in 2021, and is unrelated to the poliovirus variant that affected Sudan in 2020 and which was...
SUN Civil Society Alliance for Nutrition reactivated in Sudan
2 November 2022 – On 24 October 2022, the SUN Civil Society Alliance for Nutrition was reactivated during an event held in Khartoum. The event was jointly organized by the World Health Organization (WHO), SUN Secretariat of Sudan, Federal Ministry of Health, Ministry of Social Affairs, and the acting chair of the Alliance, the nongovernmental...
What it took to close a polio outbreak in Sudan
25 September 2022 – It takes more than a town crier reading off a scroll to close a polio outbreak in any country. Rather, it takes multi-disciplinary teams of experts wading through country-level data from polio eradication programmes – often more than once. They scrutinize evidence, crunch numbers to analyse information, and interview health...
Polio outbreak in Sudan successfully stopped and declared closed
Khartoum, 18 September 2022 – Sudan’s outbreak of circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 (cVDPV2) has been successfully stopped, according to experts from WHO, UNICEF and the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Declared in 15 out of 18 states, the outbreak was caused by a circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus...
Integrated public health teams: helping Sudan move forward on polio transition
13 March 2022 – An important milestone in integrating 4 key public health programmes was reached last week in Khartoum, Sudan. Staff from 4 critical areas of state-level health care – poliovirus eradication, immunization, health emergencies, and health system strengthening – met to operationalize their work across all 18 states in Sudan as...
Joint statement by WHO and UNICEF in Sudan: Zero cases of polio reported in Sudan since 2020, over 8 million children reached with polio vaccines
A young Sudanese boy is vaccinated against polio on 28 November 2020 during the first vaccination campaign of Sudan's polio outbreak response. Copyright WHO Khartoum, 26 January 2022 – Sudan's Federal Ministry of Health (FMOH) declared an outbreak of circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 (cVDPV2) on 8 August 2020. The outbreak affected 58...
Attacks on health care in Sudan must stop now
Statement by Dr Ahmed Al-Mandhari, WHO Regional Director for the Eastern Mediterranean Cairo, Egypt, 11 January 2022 – The World Health Organization (WHO) is following with great concern the escalating crisis in Sudan, including 15 reported attacks on health care workers and health facilities since November 2021 in Khartoum and other cities, 11 of...
