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WHO supports the production of face masks to encourage mask wearing and empower local communities
10 August 2020 - As part of the COVID-19 response, WHO and the Federal Ministry of Health are holding a workshop for local communities on producing fabric face masks. The activity is part of the bigger “Safe return” campaign, undertaken in partnership with the Ministry, UNICEF and other partners, which aims to help people resume their work and lives...
Joint efforts to reduce vector-borne diseases across Khartoum
5 October 2020 – This year’s heavy rains caused the worst floods in Sudan since decades. As of the 9 September, more than 860 000 people have been critically affected and more than 181 000 houses have been damaged or destroyed and thousands of people are left homeless. Heavy rains and floods have also increased mosquito-borne diseases, malaria in...
UNICEF delivers 10 million doses of polio vaccine to Sudan
Khartoum, 4 October 2020 –On 1 October, UNICEF delivered nearly 10 million doses of polio vaccine to Khartoum. These vaccines will be used for a national polio campaign in Sudan planned for October to immunize 8.6 million children under the age of 5. On 8 August, vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 (cVDPV2) was confirmed in Sudan. This strain of...
WHO and Qatar Fund for Development sign new agreement to meet health needs in Sudan
20 September 2020, Cairo, Egypt -- The World Health Organization is grateful for a generous donation of US$ 1 million from the Qatar Fund for Development to support its ongoing work in Sudan for a period of one year.The agreement is part of a larger, joint project that brings together the Qatari Red Crescent and Qatar Charity to support...
WHO provides medical supplies to Sudan following major flooding
9 September 2020 - Following torrential rains and floods in Sudan, WHO is providing surgical medicines and supplies, cholera medicines, and other essential medicines and supplies to affected communities. To date, the floods have killed 100 people, injured 46 more, and affected almost 500,000 people in 16 of the country’s 18 states. Almost 50,000...
UNICEF, WHO support Sudan's efforts to end vaccine-derived polio outbreak
Khartoum, 8 September 2020 –Children in Sudan have been confirmed to have contracted circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 (cVDPV2). This strain of poliovirus is a result of low immunity and under-immunization of communities, rather than a problem with the vaccine. In August 2020, the Africa Regional Certification Commission certified the WHO...
Statement on polio outbreaks in the Eastern Mediterranean Region
6 September 2020 – The polio programme is responding to 2 new polio outbreaks in the Eastern Mediterranean Region: one in Sudan, and one in Yemen. Both outbreaks are consequences of increasingly low levels of immunity, and each has paralysed children in populations that have been difficult or impossible to reach with routine or supplementary polio...
Overcoming difficulties: the long journey towards establishing a public health laboratory to serve all Darfur states
10 August 2020 – In every outbreak, early testing and detection are very important, they help give the appropriate diagnosis and ensure its containment and adequate monitoring while keeping the number of infections from rising. Laboratory-supported surveillance and testing allow early detection of cases and play a key role in early response and...
Training health workers to fight COVID-19 in Sudan
Polio personnel are putting in the hours to strengthen response Dr Niazy trains medical staff on handwashing during a COVID-19 training session in River Nile state. Photo: WHO/Sudan 28 May 2020 – The polio eradication programme has stepped up to help the Sudanese Ministry of Health limit spread of the COVID-19 virus. The programme is working in...
WHO responds to urgent health needs of people affected by conflict in El Geneina, West Darfur
14 January 2020 – The World Health Organization (WHO) and health partners are responding to the health needs of people affected by recent conflict in El Geneina, West Darfur, Sudan. To date, WHO has delivered medicines and medical supplies for more than 120 200 people, including those in need of trauma or surgical care. Other supplies delivered...
