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Child survival

Pneumonia is killing one child every hour in South Sudan

Akot is sitting on his mother Anyang's lap.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

Nyanken Ruot holds her baby

Nyankena’s story

Fighting malnutrition and hoping for a peaceful future in South Sudan