Highlights
Displaced people in South Sudan reached 716, 500 internally displaced persons (IDPs) One hundred and twenty three thousand, four hundred (166, 900) others displaced in to the neighbouring countries.
Health partners continued health promotion interventions in IDP sites in Juba following repeated cases of measles in Tomping and threats of potential disease outbreaks due to poor hygiene and sanitation conditions in the IDP sites. Health seeking behaviour is gradually improving among the internally displaced person.
Although the number of cases of measles reported from Juba and Tomping have significantly reduced, it remains a challenge in internally displaced persons sites across all the conflict affected areas.
Malaria, respiratory traction infections and diarrhoea continue to be the leading causes of morbidity in all the internally displaced persons sites in the conflict affected areas.