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• Access to health care services still remains a challenge due the ongoing insecurity in the country; this has been extended to attack on health care services which continues to increase in different part of the country. In December 4 health facilities were looted and damaged.
• In November 2017, South Sudan celebrated its first full year with no indigenous cases of the disease.
• To reverse the current cholera trend in South Sudan, the after-action review (AAR) of the cholera response endorsed the global roadmap of attaining a 90% reduction of cholera deaths by 2030.
• To understand the needs and gaps of the partner’s health cluster coordinated three health cluster coordination meetings at National level and six sub-national coordination meetings at Sub - National level. Key gaps identified were access to health care services in some hard to reach locations, lack of medical supplies and insufficient health personnel.
• The Humanitarian Response Plan (HRP) 2018 which was largely coordinated by all the cluster groups under the umbrella of UNOCHA was launched in December 2017. Health cluster through Strategic Advisory Group (SAG) approved 43 partners into 2018 HRP.
• To complement cholera response in high risks populations, 250 000 doses of second round were administered in Kapoeta East and South, Tonj East and Malakal.