Highlights
• Renewed fighting over the past two months has cut off 750,000 people in Greater Upper Nile from humanitarian assistance and forced approximately 150,000 people to flee their homes, many to extremely remote areas. UNICEF, with FAO, IOM, WFP, IRC and partners, and with the critical support of the Logistics cluster and OCHA, has undertaken an emergency airlift operation to deliver 4,500 survival kits, containing lifesaving supplies, to IDPs in hard-to-reach areas of Unity State.
• Since 1 April 2015, 65 per cent of nutrition treatment sites in Unity state have been suspended or closed. A total of 5,624 children that were admitted to SAM treatment programmes have defaulted during this period while an estimated 5,849 children were unable to access treatment. Partners are working to re-establish services wherever possible.
• Suspected cases of cholera continue to be reported in Juba, with 73 cases and 9 deaths to date. UNICEF and partners are scaling up multi-sectoral prevention and response activities, along with the Ministry of Health,
WHO and partners.
• One new case of Vaccine Derived Polio Virus (VDPV) was confirmed on 11 June 2015, increasing the VDPV cases to three since October 2014. A team from WHO, UNICEF and Ministry of Health staff will be travelling to Mayom on 19 June to conduct a detailed investigation of the new VDPV case. The next round of the polio vaccination campaign in Mayom County is planned for the coming week