Save the Children is providing life-saving medical care and support to health facilities, including trauma care and the delivery of essential medical supplies to communities ravaged by conflict and disease, offering both emergency interventions and routine health care. Additionally, our nutrition programs actively prevent and combat malnutrition, ensuring healthy development for children affected by the humanitarian crisis.
Impact of Conflict
- Rapid deterioration leaves 25.6 million people in high levels of acute food insecurity. Acute food insecurity has more than tripled since the pre-conflict period, affecting over half the population.
- Over 44,200 reported cholera cases and 1,200 associated deaths across 11 states. Actual numbers are likely higher due to limited surveillance and reporting from conflict-affected areas.
- 70-80% of hospitals have closed down. Those that remain open are overwhelmed by needs and lack medical supplies and personnel.
- A staggering 4.9 million children under five years and pregnant and nursing women were estimated to be acutely malnourished in 2024.
- Sudan among the top four countries in the world with the highest prevalence of global acute malnutrition (GAM), at an estimated 13%.
- About 65% of the population lacks access to healthcare.
Our Response
We’re running mobile health clinics in camps for displaced people and providing nutrition supplements for malnourished children.
Responding to a major outbreak of cholera establishing three treatment centers in displacement camps to provide critical support to children and their families.
Skilled midwives, vaccination drives, and mental health support are making a lasting impact on the well-being of children and families across Sudan.
The Community-based Management of Acute Malnutrition Program screens and treats thousands of children suffering from severe acute malnutrition, providing life-saving care and essential nutrition.
Preventive programs like Maternal, Infant, and Young Child Nutrition, Food-Based Prevention of Malnutrition through Assida Plus project, and MAMI support families to prevent malnutrition and ensure no child goes hungry.
Baby Sara* was the first baby born at the health clinic in the IDP Reception Centre. Her mum, Asma arrived at an IDP Reception Centre in Gedaref after a roughly two-month long journey on foot from Sinja, the capital of Sennar State, while heavily pregnant. Asma left Sinja due to the escalation of attacks in the city in June 2024, which forced over 400,000 people to flee to Gedaref. Mussab Hassona / Save the Children