Highlights
A total of 1,024 cases of cholera have been recorded in Juba since the start of the outbreak on 23 April 2014.
A total of 34,370 Internally Displaced Persons have received the oral cholera vaccine in the first round in Bentiu Protection of Civilian camps I and II.
A total of 1,247,478 people have been reached with various medical interventions by health cluster partners since 15 December 2013.
Situation Update
The number of cholera cases in South Sudan recorded since the outbreak started is currently 1,024 cases, including 27 deaths recorded (16 institutional and 11 community deaths). Thirty-three samples out of 161 collected have so far tested positive by culture following laboratory confirmation. Thirty-two samples tested negative. The majority of the hospital deaths reported occurred on arrival at the cholera treatment centre. There are currently four cholera treatment centres in Juba, located in UN House Juba III Tongping PoC camps, Juba Teaching Hospital and Gurei.
The security situation has remained relatively calm in the past few weeks, with limited reports of clashes in most parts of the country. Partners have continued providing life saving interventions to all people displaced in IDP camps and host communities including oral cholera vaccination campaigns, measles campaigns and surgery for gunshot wound patients in Bentiu, Lankien, and Mingkaman.