Sudan: Acute Watery Diarrhoea Response Driving Cases Down

30 October 2017

Khartoum — The number of Acute Watery Diarrhoea (AWD) cases in Sudan has dropped significantly in the past weeks. An estimated 185,000 South Sudanese refugees have arrived in Sudan in 2017. Aid organisations continue to assist people in newly accessible areas of Central Darfur's Jebel Marra. In Central Darfur, a Return and Reconstruction Commission (RRC) has been established in the state by a presidential decree.

The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in Sudan reports in its latest bulletin that following more than a year of intensive efforts by the Federal Ministry of Health (FmoH), the World Health Organization (WHO), the UN Children's Agency (UNICEF) and other health partners managed to mitigate the outbreak.

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