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Vol 18. No 1. February 2025
EDITORIAL
South Sudan cholera outbreak: A call to improve sanitation
Ruot Garjiek Teny
The Ministry of Health declared a cholera outbreak on the 28th October 2024 from the town of Renk in the northern border with Sudan. The index case was imported from Sudan which has been experiencing cholera outbreaks since 2023. Because of poor sanitation and congestion of refugees and returnees from the Sudan at the reception facilities in the outskirts of Renk, and because they had free movement, the outbreak extended to the whole town and other parts of the Upper Nile state.
Since then, the outbreak has extended to involve almost the whole country with about 13,000 cholera cases reported by the last week of December 2024, of which about 50% are from Rubkona county of Unity State mostly from the UN Protection of Civilians (PoC) sites. The other two most affected towns are Malakal and the capital city, Juba, accounting for 20% and 15% of cases respectively.
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Gov’t commits SSP1 billion to combat cholera outbreak
14 January 2025
The Ministry of Finance and Planning has allocated SSP1 billion to combat cholera outbreak in South Sudan.
The Undersecretary of the Ministry of Health, Dr Harriet Pasquale Akello, told Radio Tamazuj on Tuesday said the fund would support cholera infection prevention and control activities.
“The money is actually meant to support all the response pillars for cholera. We have almost 10 pillars, including coordination, support for epi surveillance and lab. It will support water, hygiene and sanitation activities, risk communication activities, case management, that is treatment centers,” Akello said.
She said the funds would support various responses and cholera-related initiatives both at national and local levels.
“It will also support infection prevention and control activities. However, we have a very clear budget line for each activity. We are not only supporting activities at the national level, but our main focus is to ensure that the money goes down to support all the state response activities,” she said.