Tag Amref Health Africa in South Sudan

29 Apr

Harvesting Hope: Transforming Health of Communities through Kitchen Gardening in South Suda

Step into the heart of South Sudan, where a powerful movement is taking root through Kitchen Gardening amidst the challenges of food insecurity and malnutrition. This centuries-old practice has become […]

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26 Mar

The fight to cure South Sudan’s mysterious neurological disorder

Nodding syndrome is a distressing disease that stunts growth, harms brains and sparks convulsions. Though its cause is still unknown, there is now hope that epilepsy drugs can help afflicted […]

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8 Jun

SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE, POLICY CHANGE, AND PROGRESS: TACKLING ONCHOCERCIASIS AND NODDING SYNDROME IN SOUTH SUDAN

This blog was co-authored by Jane Carter and Peter Claver (Amref Health Africa), and Robert Colebunders (University of Antwerp). TACKLING A CRITICAL, LITTLE-UNDERSTOOD DISEASE  In South Sudan, onchocerciasis is endemic in around […]

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6 Jun

Unanswered Questions about COVID-19 Vaccine in South Sudan with Paul Ocieng

It is three years since the first case of COVID-19 was first discovered in South Sudan and two years since the first batch of COVID-19 vaccine arrived in the country. […]

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26 Jul

Solving Water and Sanitation Problems for Gumbo Community in Juba, South Sudan: Perspectives of the Local Government

About 59% of the population in South Sudan lacks access to safe water, while 10% of the population has access to improved sanitation. In order to survive, families are forced […]

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26 Jul

A Young Safe Water Champion Changing Lives in Gumbo, South Sudan

Every day, Rovinnah Bonitoj wakes up at 6 am and prepares for school. In the evening, she does her homework and then embarks on her tasks as a Safe Water […]

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2 Jun

Celebrating Hayat – a Fistula Hero in Juba

Soft-spoken, compassionate and cheerful. Hayat Peter is one of the nurses who is contributing to ending obstetric fistula in Juba, Republic of South Sudan. Being a nurse for 22 years, […]

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19 May

Unpacking the Mystery of South-Sudan’s ‘Nodding Disease’

Nodding syndrome is a mysterious neurological disease of unknown aetiology characterised by head nodding and complicated by a variable presence of other seizure types that primarily affect children aged 5–15 […]

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13 Oct

Western Equatoria: Nodding disease stumps villages and doctors

Several years after it was first reported, a debilitating neurological disease with unknown etiology continues to shake communities in South Sudan’s Western Equatoria state and still has the medical community […]

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