Juba, South Sudan – More than 1.1 million doses of oral cholera vaccine have arrived in South Sudan as the government launched a program to inoculate more than 80 percent of the population. But the mass vaccination exercise faces several challenges, including a lack of access to areas dealing with the worst cholera outbreaks. Doctors … Read more
Jarweng, South Sudan – Nobel Prize-winning peacemaker Jimmy Carter spent nearly four decades waging a war to eradicate an ancient parasite plaguing the world’s poorest people. Rarely fatal but extremely painful and debilitating, Guinea worm disease infects people who drink water contaminated with larvae that develop inside the body into worms up to 3 feet … Read more
Nairobi, Kenya – South Sudan is facing an “absolutely massive” influx of refugees from war-torn Sudan as well as a rapidly increasing cholera epidemic, Doctors Without Borders (MSF) warned on Monday. The medical charity said 5,000 people were crossing the border every day. The United Nations has recently put the figure even higher at 7,000 … Read more