Health

HDI South Sudan targets people with life-saving health care services. The targeted population include caseloads of IDPs and refugee returnees, and 50 per cent of the host community population.

HDI’s Health Sector response activities aim to improve access to health care services for a prioritized vulnerable population in order to reduce excess morbidity and mortality of epidemic-prone diseases.

Integrated quality essential health care services with nutrition, food security and livelihoods, WASH, and health protection will be scaled-up targeting people with physical and mental disabilities and survivors of SGBV. Improved access to essential health services will contribute to the overall reduction of the high maternal mortality rates (789 deaths per 100,000 live births) and under-five mortality rates (90.7 deaths per 1,000 live births) in women and children and mitigate the transmission of vaccine preventable diseases.

HDI South Sudan Health Sector plan prioritized responses based on the epidemiological profile of disease outbreaks and seasonality and trauma related emergency requirements.

Response modalities will be a combination of mobile, static, fixed and rapid response mechanisms. Integrated disease surveillance and response data, early warning alert and response system data, and data related to disruption of services and disability tracking tools will inform the determination of the feasibility of the response.

HDI South Sudan Health Sector will involve the communities and existing development health programs along with the County Health Department in the planning and organization of emergency health services. This will promote best practices through monitoring the frequency and use of related outcomes to plan, implement, monitor and evaluate HDI’s health projects in all stages of the program cycle as an indicator for providing accountability to the affected populations. 

Mental health and psychosocial support and disability are highlighted components to be included and strengthened in the HDI Health Strategic Plan (HSP) and will be supported with enriched data and information collected through assessments, surveys and information management databases and tools.

Essential health services in the Ebola high-risk counties will be strengthened in the first and second quarters of 2020 to contribute to EVD prevention and surveillance to mitigate the impact of an Ebola outbreak.

Similarly, with the global pandemic of COVID-19, HDI South Sudan will strive to focus projects aiming at education (awareness) and bot the disease and preventive measures.