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Enhancing South Sudan’s Human Resources for Health through Strengthened Engagement of Health Professionals in the Diaspora

This project aims to contribute technical support to the government of South Sudan to develop a national diaspora mobilization strategy for the health sector. In close partnership with the Ministry of Health, the Directorate of Consular Services and other stakeholders, training and human resources for health (HRH) gaps will be identified within the South Sudan health sector training institutions.

Population-level effect of cholera vaccine on displaced populations, South Sudan, 2014

Following mass population displacements in South Sudan, preventive cholera vaccination campaigns were conducted in displaced persons camps before a 2014 cholera outbreak. We compare cholera transmission in vaccinated and unvaccinated areas and show vaccination likely halted transmission within vaccinated areas, illustrating the potential for oral cholera vaccine to stop cholera transmission in vulnerable populations.

The first use of the global oral cholera vaccine emergency stockpile: lessons from South Sudan

A global oral cholera vaccine (OCV) stockpile was established in 2013 to improve rapid access to the vaccine in outbreaks and emergencies in which cholera risk is high. The first deployment from the global OCV stockpile was to South Sudan in 2014 because of high cholera risk from massive population displacements within the civil war.  256,700 doses of OCV were delivered, with high coverage, throughout the country as part of a comprehensive cholera prevention strategy by multiple agencies, some of which had little to no previous experience with this vaccine.