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Child survival

Michael Edward

Engaging fathers to promote exclusive breastfeeding

UNICEF works with partners, communities, parents to promote the nutritional and life saving benefits of exclusive breastfeeding for children up to 6 months

Harriet Karij, a UNICEF-supported midwife (in white), discusses the importance of breastfeeding with 19 year old and first time mother.

23 February 2022

Support essential health care for all

South Sudan has one of the highest under-five mortality rates in the world. And many mothers die from lack of basic medicines and care.

12 November 2019

Pneumonia is killing one child every hour in South Sudan

Akot is sitting on his mother Anyang's lap.

15 October 2019

Eat-Play-Love

A boy’s journey from severe acute malnutrition to recovery in eight weeks

(Left) Dau Kiir, one of 70 trained Community Based Distributors (CBD), conducts a malaria test during a home visit to Lina Abui's home on her son, who is suffering from a severe case of malaria.

The Boma Health Initiative

Mobilizing action at the household and community level to reduce preventable ill health and deaths

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Costing summary (PDF, 1 MB)

Costing and investment case analysis (PDF, 6 MB)

Kaku is holding her two twin daughters at Al Sabah Children's Hospital in Juba, South Sudan

29 January 2019

Malnutrition remains a threat to the survival of children

Conflict, insecurity and inflation are contributing to malnutrition in children in South Sudan.

Nyanut with her sons Ngor (to the left) and Chan (to the right) at a health facility in Malakal.

29 January 2019

The three-month challenge

The seasonal rain turns the few roads into muddy tracks, holding every vehicle attempting to move hostage.

Portrait of Dominic Sarawasi

05 December 2018

An Ebola survivor’s mission to prevent an outbreak

It is 14 years since Ebola came to Yambio and the disease is again a danger.

Healthcare worker Lokale Marko shows how beads are used to assess for pneumonia.

15 October 2018

Beads and barefoot nurses

South Sudan’s community health workers reach remotest lands

Three-year-old Lidia in Wau

Pulling children out of hunger, disease and death

The ready-to-use therapeutic food to treat malnutrition is rescuing the most vulnerable children