HIGHLIGHTS
Over 120 cases of Acute Jaundice Syndrome in Sortony, North Darfur.
Funding challenges for mobile health clinics supporting IDPs in Blue Nile State.
South Sudanese refugees in East Darfur to be relocated.
Almost 43,000 people affected by rains and flooding in parts of Sudan.
FIGURES 2016 HRP
Displaced people in Sudan (as of Dec 2015) - Up to 3.2 million
Displaced people in Darfur (as of Dec 2015) - Up to 2.6 million
GAM caseload - 2.1 million
South Sudanese refugee arrivals in Sudan - since 15 Dec 2013 (registered by UNHCR) - as of 30 June 2016 - 232,250
Refugees of other nationalities (registered by UNHCR) - as of 30 June 2016 - 133,210
FUNDING
214 million US$ received in 2016
22.5% Reported funding
Acute Jaundice Syndrome cases in North Darfur
Between 18 and 24 July 45 new cases of suspected Acute Jaundice Syndrome (AJS) were reported in Sortony, an area in North Darfur hosting people displaced due to hostilities in Jebel Marra which started in January this year. This brings the total to 121 cases since May 2016, including two deaths (both were children), according to the international NGO (INGO) Médecins Sans Frontières-España (MSF-E) and the World Health Organization (WHO). AJS is an epidemic-prone, water borne disease, with a faecal-oral route of transmission through contaminated water, and can be a symptom of different epidemic-prone diseases including dengue, hepatitis A or E and yellow fever.
WHO reported that 61 per cent of the cases are male, 9 per cent are children below 5 years of age and 32 per cent of the patients needed hospitalization. Seven samples were sent by the State Ministry of Health (SMoH) and WHO for laboratory analysis and all tested positive for Hepatitis E virus. AJS outbreaks mostly occur in areas where people live in cramped conditions, with poor water supply and insufficient sanitation and hygiene facilities, such as Sortony. There are significant health risks arising as a result of over 4,500 livestock living in close vicinity to the internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Sortony.
The average case fatality during AJS outbreaks is around 1 per cent. However for pregnant women AJS can be serious with mortality rates between 10 and 30 per cent.
Health Sector and Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) Sector partners are working with the SMoH to address the causes of the Hepatitis E and diarrhoea cases in Sortony, by ensuring that all water supplies are chlorinated, providing sanitation and hygiene equipment, and conducting awareness sessions and home visits in the community