Sudan: Supporting People in Crisis Through Primary Health Care – Stories

September 19, 2024

The conflict in Sudan has displaced hundreds of thousands of individuals from their homes. An estimated 80% of hospitals in conflict-affected areas of the country are unable to treat patients, and medical supplies are depleted across the country. Lack of access to food and malnutrition – a significant component in disease – are affecting hundreds of thousands of individuals. Since August 2024, a famine has been officially declared within the Darfur region of Sudan.

At the identical time, Sudan is grappling with the health effects of climate change. Considered one in all the world’s most climate-sensitive countries, drought and increasingly unpredictable rainfall levels are fueling mass migration, moving people inside Sudan and across borders in quest of more habitable land and reliable sources of fresh drinking water.

In response to those overlapping crises, the Global Fund has invested in strengthening health systems and fighting HIV, tuberculosis and malaria in Sudan and neighbouring countries.

In Sudan, this includes US$170 million in recent grant agreements to distribute insecticide-treated bed nets and deliver essential medicines to keep up HIV and tuberculosis treatment for displaced people. An additional US$20 million investment through the Global Fund’s COVID-19 Response Mechanism is getting used to guard and strengthen health systems within the country, including strengthening medical oxygen and provide chains, supporting mobile health clinics, and providing essential resources for community medical experts and community-based organizations to succeed in more individuals with life-saving care.

In countries bordering Sudan, Global Fund partners are working together to offer tools to forestall and treat HIV, tuberculosis and malaria. For example, in 2023, the Global Fund and the United Nations Development Programme delivered 100,000 bed nets to refugee communities in Eastern Chad alone.

Since 2002, the Global Fund has provided greater than $15 billion to countries affected by humanitarian crises, also often known as countries with difficult operating environments, and stays committed to supporting health systems and partners in providing care within the face of complex disease crises.

To end HIV, tuberculosis and malaria, we must overcome obstacles and reach probably the most vulnerable with prevention and treatment services – wherever they’re.