Southern Sudan Health Partnership

05/16/2013

Field nurse from Britain making a difference at the Doctors Without Borders ER in Nasir, South Sudan.

MSF nurse Emma Pedley describes her hectic nights on call at an MSF project in Nasir, South Sudan.

12/20/2012

People in South Sudan are still running for their lives.

When fighting erupted in Lekwongole, MSF clinical officer David Bude fled along with the rest of the population and used his medical skills to save lives in exceptionally difficult circumstances.

12/15/2012

Life saving vaccines can be very complicated to deliver.

A six-part documentary project that tells the stories of millions of patients left behind by the global health revolution.

11/28/2012

Marriam Teia pointed to a bag of grain near the doorway of her home, a small inlet in the caves of the Nuba mountains. "This is the last sack for the kids," ...

08/24/2012

Crisis in South Sudan's Blue Nile state bordering Sudan, as Bashir's military continues and bomb and bombard civilians in the area.

Helen Ottens-Patterson, an MSF nurse, describes the dire situation in Batil camp, where more than 110,000 Sudanese refugees are struggling to survive.

08/24/2012

Simply brilliant.

A breath of relief for refugees with asthma: Many people living with asthma have difficulty taking their medication using standard metered-dose inhalers. Add-on devices called spacers are designed to make inhalers easier to use and more effective, but they are prohibitively expensive for many people living with asthma in Kenya. Last October, IRC pharmacist Erenius Ngelecha came up with an alternative for his patients in the Kakuma refugee camp in northwestern Kenya, modifying sanitized one-liter water bottles that would otherwise be thrown away as a spacer substitute. Within a few months, his innovative “spacer” was being used by nearly 100 asthma patients in the camp. (Photo: Jane Yang/IRC)

08/23/2012

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07/03/2012

Continued violence in South Sudan hinders the efforts of NGOs to provide much needed healthcare and education support.

With the 23rd anniversary of President Omar al-Bashir’s oppressive rule fast approaching, protests have swept through Sudan’s capital and neighboring cities. Yet this series of demonstrations “feels different” than previous anti-regime protests, report activists on the ground.

07/01/2012

Many thanks to the NY Times for this front page article. The United Nations and African Union have failed in stopping President Omar al-Bashir from continued attacks on the people of South Sudan.

Fleeing the war in an isolated, rebellious region of Sudan, a new generation of Lost Boys, and some girls too, is being born.

06/28/2012

Mixed blessing: heavy rains help alleviate drought but spread cholera in over populated refugee camps and turn dirt roads into a tire-sucking morass.

06/26/2012

“It was a truly shocking sight as we witnessed some of the weakest people dying as they walked—too dehydrated for even the most urgent medical care to save them.”

MSF will be able to supply Sudanese refugees at one camp with two and a half liters of water per person per day, as of next week - about a sixth of the amount of water they need. The minimum amount of water that should be allocated in refugee emergencies is 15 liters per person per day, with seven l...

05/26/2012

I know of a refugee woman who was not allowed to emigrate; she was labeled a combatant because she admitted to serving a bowl of soup to a soldier at gun point.

On a trip to Afghanistan in the summer of 2009, not long after my appointment as the U.S. State Department's ambassador at large for global women's issues, I stopped for dinner with a group of Afghan women activists in Kabul. One woman opened our conversation with a plea: "Please don't see us as vic...