South Sudan faces grim health and humanitarian situation.

摘要

When South Sudan becomes Africa's youngest nation on July 9,2011, it will inherit some formidable health and humanitarian challenges. Emerging from several decades of civil war, South Sudan has a severe shortage of health workers and facilities, with only 16% of people in the region accessing health care. Furthermore, violence has escalated in South Sudan in 2011, claiming 800 lives in less than 4 months. And the region faces a heavy disease burden, with meningitis, measles, yellow fever, and whooping cough endemic in many areas. River blindness, sleeping sickness, cholera, and poliomyelitis outbreaks are common too.