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CDC Division of Global HIV & TB Country Profile: South Sudan: 09/01/2023

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    Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.). Global Health Center. Division of Global HIV & TB.
  • Description:
    South Sudan struggles to implement the 2018 peace deal signed after the 2013 and 2016 internal conflicts devastated a country already plundered by the long struggle for independence in 2011. Floods, drought, and intra and inter-clan fighting have caused displacements and food insecurity. National health outcomes are among the worst in the world, with only 32 percent of people living with HIV (PLHIV) on antiretroviral therapy (ART).

    The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) collaborates closely with the Ministry of Health (MOH), South Sudan AIDS Commission, UN agencies, Global Fund, and other key partners to strengthen the fragile health system by providing resources and technical assistance in HIV/TB prevention and treatment programs, laboratory strengthening, blood safety, strategic information, strengthening the national response to epidemics, and human resources for health development. Essential Health Services: Through the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), CDC supports HIV services in the highest HIV prevalence areas of South Sudan, focusing on increasing access to quality HIV service through direct support to 69 treatment sites out of 179 sites nationally.

    Health Systems Strengthening: CDC provides extensive assistance to MOH in strengthening the health systems, prioritizing laboratory systems, including the provision of HIV early infant diagnosis, HIV viral load, and quality-assured HIV rapid testing, continuous quality improvement, and promoting accreditation efforts, decentralization of point of care instruments for multi-disease testing, information systems, biosafety and biosecurity, in-service capacity building, and the development of national laboratory policies and guidelines. CDC provides technical assistance (TA) in strengthening the health information management system, supporting national priority HIV surveillance and surveys. CDC supports MOH to establish and strengthen public health emergency preparedness and response systems to viral hemorrhagic fever outbreaks. Over the last five years, CDC provided TA to MOH to establish an Incident Management System, workforce capacity building, a field epidemiology training program, and a National Public Health Institute.

    South-Sudan.pdf

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    CDC Division of Global HIV & TB Country Profile
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    Fact Sheet
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    South Sudan
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