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South Sudan Health Cluster Bulletin #02, February - March 2025

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Key Highlights

Enhancing Health Access and Strengthening Responsiveness:

• From January to March 2025, 828,000 outpatient consultations were provided for essential health services.

• During this period, skilled birth attendants supported about 11,000 normal deliveries.

Preventing, Detecting and Responding to Epidemic Prone Disease Outbreaks:

• A total of 45,616 cumulative cases, including 841 deaths (CFR: 1.8%), have been reported from 43 counties in 9 states and two administrative areas. Of these deaths, 52% occurred in health facilities.

• Oral Cholera Vaccination (OCV) campaigns have reached over 4.4 million people in 21 out of 34 targeted counties, achieving 89% coverage.

• A total of 8 confirmed M-Pox cases and no deaths reported from Juba and Malakal with 68 suspected Mpox cases have been recorded.

• Over 905,000 malaria cases reported by March 2025, with high weekly incidence and up to 38% outpatient burden, indicating intense transmission and urgent need for enhanced surveillance, treatment, and vector control measures.

Providing Quality Essential Clinical Health Services:

• Between January and March 2025, stabilization centers treated over 406 children suffering from severe acute malnutrition with complications.

• During the same period, around 16 survivors of sexual and gender-based violence received clinical management of rape services.

Improving Resilience – Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MPHSS)

• As of March 2025, approximately 6,000 individuals received mental health and psychosocial support services.