FIFA has launched a Menstrual Health Project in South Sudan
SSFA, South Sudan Football Association, has launched a football-based project to promote menstrual health and education in collaboration with FIFA. As part of the project, Girls Interschool Tournament was organised in May. The goal of the pilot project is to use grassroots football as an educational tool. Following FIFA Secretary General Fatma...
Read moreEgypt is considering collaborating with South Sudan on health issues
Khaled Abdel Ghaffar, Egypt’s Acting Minister of Health and Population, met with Yolanda Awel, South Sudan’s Minister of Health, to discuss continued collaboration to eliminate Hepatitis C in South Sudan. Discussions at the meeting focused on how to meet the Sudanese health system’s needs for detecting and treating hepatitis C...
Read moreSouth Sudan makes COVID-19 testing and vaccinations more widely available
In March of this year, a COVID-19 vaccination centre opened in Tonj North, Bahr el Ghazal State, South Sudan, making vaccines available to all residents. In recent months, communities in Tonj North villages, as well as health workers, have stepped up and demonstrated their value and resilience in the face...
Read moreThe suspension of funding by the United Kingdom has had a significant impact on South Sudan’s health sector
In what could be a new blow to the country’s health sector, the United Kingdom (UK) has suspended funding to 220 medical institutes, including the Health Pooled Fund, the largest donor-financing mechanism for healthcare in South Sudan. The cutbacks come merely months after the UK revealed a “fresh strategy to...
Read moreOver 900,000 people in South Sudan have received COVID-19 vaccinations
Since the vaccination campaign began in South Sudan in April of last year, over 900,000 people have been fully immunized against COVID-19. On Monday, WHO COVID-19 Vaccines Global Access (COVAX) Coordinator Brendan Dineen announced that a total of 902,923 people had been fully vaccinated. “Over the last two weeks, over...
Read moreHealthcare funds for South Sudan
The Health Fund will be given $68.5 million in aid. This project aims to improve the health and well-being of people in eight of South Sudan’s ten states. Canada’s contribution to the Health Pooled Fund (HPF) contributes to the availability of quality health services, including sexual and reproductive health services,...
Read moreSouth Sudan has declared a new cholera outbreak
With the confirmation of 8 cases in Rubkona county, one of the country’s Unity States, the South Sudanese Ministry of Health declared a cholera outbreak on Sunday. The department stated that the action was taken in response to the results of the National Public Health Laboratory in Juba, which confirmed...
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