Healthy Living

Experts conduct research on urban refugee’s health issues

Saving children by preventing mother-to-child transmission of HIV

Photo:  (UN File photo) By Kidega Livingstone As the Ebola cases had been reported in the Republic of Congo last week, the World Health Organization recommended airport screening as a way to contain spread of the disease in high risk countries including South Sudan. However, South Sudan authorities have not...

Peace keepers donate drugs to hospitals in Jonglei

  Director General at the Reproductive Health at the Ministry of Health Dr. Alex Dimitri (R), Dr. Wilfred Ochan (M), UNFPA deputy Country Representative and Mr. Isaac Abishai (L)  chairperson of South Sudan Media Network for Population and Development during the Media Forum on International Midwifery day Yesterday (Photo By...

 Baby Nyigia  Baby Nyigia needs your help to survive. This beautiful angel requires medical attention outside the country. Her mother has made several appeals to help meet her take her baby abroad. At Juba Monitor we are doing our part by asking someone out there with good heart and ability...

  A child receives a vaccination in South Sudan (photo credit:  IOM): By Rose Keji Benjamin and Kitab A. Unango The Ministry of Health and partners on Tuesday launched a vaccination campaign week against eight communicable diseases at Al-Shabbah Children’s Hospital. Dr. Samson Baba the Adviser to the Minister of...

      Juba, South Sudan, April 24, 2018- Working with the health authorities and partners, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is launching today a four-week preventive oral cholera vaccination campaign in Juba, to increase the immunity of people at risk of this deadly disease.   MSF   From June 2016...

    By Thomas Lodovico Oryem   The Human Immunodeficiency Virus and Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (HIV/AIDS) supervisor in Torit State Hospital, Ms. Florence Alfred said stigma is the major cause of death among people living with HIV/AIDS.   She said people living with HIV/AIDS do not want to disclose their...

By Mandela Nelson Denis As United Nation Mine Action Services (UNMAS) celebrated the 20th anniversary of its services to clear mines all over the world and in South Sudan in particular, Tim Lardner, the Chief, Mine Action in the country said that mines are stopping South Sudanese from running their...