Two months into a measles outbreak in Pibor town in the Greater Pibor Administrative Area, the spread of the highly contagious and life-threatening illness is a severe growing crisis. Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) calls on all health organizations to urgently launch a reactive vaccination campaign to curb the outbreak. On August 18, 2020, […]
Read More… from South Sudan: Urgent vaccination campaign needed to stop spread of measles in Pibor
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is deeply concerned about the impact of ongoing severe flooding in Greater Pibor, South Sudan, which has displaced thousands of people and worsened an already devastating humanitarian emergency. MSF is urging organizations in the area to scale up their response to prevent further disaster. “When the fighting renewed in […]
If left untreated, TB severely weakens people and can be fatal. TB is one of the top ten causes of death worldwide.
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Read More… from World Tuberculosis Day 2020: Tackling TB in Sudan and South Sudan
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) medical teams have received a mass influx of 83 wounded patients in Pieri and Lankien over the space of just five days between March 9-13, and have treated 45 gunshot wounds in Pibor over the past months as waves of intercommunal clashes in Jonglei State and the Greater Pibor […]
Following the current outbreak of violence in Jonglei State and the Greater Pibor Administrative area of South Sudan, thousands of people have fled for their lives and are seeking refuge inside the United Nation’s Protection of Civilians (PoC) site in Pibor town. Our teams have treated over 28 wounded in the last two weeks in […]
Read More… from South Sudan: Thousands flee as conflict escalates
Here’s a look at just a few of the humanitarian emergencies that Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has responded to over the last 10 years.
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