KHARTOUM, 28 December 2022 – Tomorrow the Federal Ministry of Health in Sudan, in collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) will launch a catch-up vaccination campaign to vaccinate children against polio and yellow fever from 29 December 2022 to 3 January 2023. This campaign will cover...

KHARTOUM, 22 December 2022 – On 16 December 2022, a case of a variant type 2 poliovirus (cVDPV2) was confirmed in a young boy aged four years in West Darfur, Sudan. The virus detected is most closely related to a strain circulating in Borno, Nigeria, in 2021, and is unrelated to the poliovirus variant that affected Sudan in 2020 and which was...

2 November 2022 – On 24 October 2022, the SUN Civil Society Alliance for Nutrition was reactivated during an event held in Khartoum. The event was jointly organized by the World Health Organization (WHO), SUN Secretariat of Sudan, Federal Ministry of Health, Ministry of Social Affairs, and the acting chair of the Alliance, the nongovernmental...

25 September 2022 – It takes more than a town crier reading off a scroll to close a polio outbreak in any country. Rather, it takes multi-disciplinary teams of experts wading through country-level data from polio eradication programmes – often more than once. They scrutinize evidence, crunch numbers to analyse information, and interview health...

Khartoum, 18 September 2022 – Sudan’s outbreak of circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 (cVDPV2) has been successfully stopped, according to experts from WHO, UNICEF and the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.  Declared in 15 out of 18 states, the outbreak was caused by a circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus...

13 March 2022 – An important milestone in integrating 4 key public health programmes was reached last week in Khartoum, Sudan. Staff from 4 critical areas of state-level health care – poliovirus eradication, immunization, health emergencies, and health system strengthening – met to operationalize their work across all 18 states in Sudan as...

A young Sudanese boy is vaccinated against polio on 28 November 2020 during the first vaccination campaign of Sudan's polio outbreak response. Copyright WHO Khartoum, 26 January 2022 – Sudan's Federal Ministry of Health (FMOH) declared an outbreak of circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 (cVDPV2) on 8 August 2020. The outbreak affected 58...

Statement by Dr Ahmed Al-Mandhari, WHO Regional Director for the Eastern Mediterranean Cairo, Egypt, 11 January 2022 – The World Health Organization (WHO) is following with great concern the escalating crisis in Sudan, including 15 reported attacks on health care workers and health facilities since November 2021 in Khartoum and other cities, 11 of...

22 December 2021 - Sudan is witnessing the fourth wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. The first case was reported in the country in March 2020. By September 21st 2021 Sudan had more than 85,000 suspected COVID-19 cases -- of which 45,730 confirmed by lab results -- with 3,518 associated deaths. Out of 1,041 health workers tested in Sudan, 64% were...