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South Sudan

South Sudan Health Cluster Bulletin #04, April-June 2024

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Key highlights
Enhancing Health Access and Strengthening Responsiveness:

  • From January to June 2024, 2.6 million outpatient consulta- tions were provided for essential health services.
  • During this period, skilled birth attendants have supported over 31,000 normal deliveries.

Preventing, Detecting and Responding to Epidemic Prone Disease Outbreaks:

  • In 2024, extensive flooding is anticipated in South Sudan in the coming months and is likely to impact 3.3 million people.
  • Since the beginning of 2024, 88 human anthrax cases have been reported in Western Bar El Ghazal (49 cases) and Warrap (39 cases).
  • Nine confirmed cases of circulating vaccine-derived Polio Type 2 (cVDPV2) have been identified through Acute Flaccid Paralysis (AFP) surveillance.
  • Cumulative 130 suspected Yellow Fever cases have been re- ported, including six deaths, from week 50 of 2023 to week 26 of 2024.

Providing Quality Essential Clinical Health Services:

  • Between January and June 2024, stabilization centers treated 1,988 children suffering from severe acute malnutrition with complications.
  • During the same period, around 144 survivors of sexual and gender-based violence received clinical management ser- vices for rape.

Improving Resilience- Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MPHSS):

  • • Since January 2024, approximately 6,567 individuals in conflict-affected areas received mental health and psychosocial support services.