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, with 14 areas at risk of famine.
  • 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.
  • An estimated 3.7 million children aged 6 to 59 months and 1 million pregnant and breastfeeding women are acutely malnourished.
  • Over 700,000 are expected to suffer from severe acute malnutrition, requiring specialized, uninterrupted lifesaving treatment.
  • 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.