Highlights
• Completeness for weekly reporting was 51% for the non- conflict affected states and 61% for the IDP sites.
• Four new suspect measles cases reported from Bentiu PoC (3) and Mayom (1) in the reporting week.
• Malaria incidence is declining in Bentiu PoC but remains above epidemic threshold while in Malakal PoC, Northern Bahr el Ghazal, Western Bahr el Ghazal, and Warrap state, the malaria incidence has returned to pre-epidemic transmission levels.
Special focus on malaria
• Malaria remains the major cause of morbidity in both non- conflict affected states (40%) and IDP sites (46%) (Fig. 1a, 1b).
• Malaria incidence in Bentiu PoC declining but remains above the third quartile. Malaria incidence in rest of IDP sites and stable nonconflict-affected states is within expected levels.
• In the week, 22 malaria deaths were reported from Bentiu PoC (3), Mingkaman (1) and 11 counties in non-IDP areas (18) (Tables 5, 6).