South Sudan: ALIMA’s Actions on the Ground
📍 ALIMA presence since: 2017
🛡️ Mission status: Completed
🔹 Key areas of expertise: Malnutrition | Women’s health | Epidemics and emerging diseases | Pediatrics
Humanitarian situation in South Sudan
Since gaining independence in 2011, South Sudan has faced a major humanitarian crisis, exacerbated by armed conflict, mass displacement, and food insecurity.
📌 Key figures of the crisis in South Sudan
- 🌍 Population: 5.3 million (OCHA, 2024)
- 🚨 People in need of humanitarian aid: 2.4 million (OCHA, 2024)
- 🏠 Internally displaced persons and refugees: 1.6 million (UNHCR, 2024)
- 🍽️ People facing severe food insecurity: 7.69 million (WFP, 2024)
Medical aid and humanitarian response in South Sudan
🥣 Fight against malnutrition
- Nutritional care in Western Bahr El Ghazal State
- Training over 12,000 mothers in the use of the MUAC for Mothers bracelet to screen for malnutrition in their children
- Strengthening dietary practices to improve child nutrition.
📊 In 2020, ALIMA treated 800 children suffering from acute malnutrition.
👶 Pediatric and maternal healthcare
- Access to primary and secondary healthcare in Raja and Wau
- Obstetric care and support for pregnant women
- Mobile clinics to reach isolated populations
📊 In 2020, ALIMA supported over 600 births and conducted over 1,700 medical consultations.
🦠 Response to epidemics and Covid-19
- Adapting the Ebola program to respond to Covid-19
- Training rapid response teams on detecting and managing health alerts
- Strengthening infection prevention and control measures in healthcare facilities
📊 195 health workers trained in prevention and rapid response measures.
Highlight project in South Sudan
🎯 Access to care for displaced and vulnerable populations
📌 Why this project matters
- 1.6 million internally displaced people, often without access to healthcare
- 6.5 million people facing acute food insecurity, with high rates of child malnutrition.
📌 Project goals
- Provide primary and secondary healthcare in the most affected areas
- Treating children suffering from acute malnutrition
- Training mothers to screen for malnutrition using the MUAC bracelet
- Strengthening local healthcare structures to ensure the sustainable delivery of care
This initiative has enabled thousands of people to receive medical and nutritional care despite the challenging security and humanitarian conditions.
On the ground
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