Health improvement and Sanitation

The following is indicators of the need of health support to South Sudan specially children, pregnant women and lactation mothers as it presents a global concern.

In the 72 hours around the time of birth, 150,000 women and 1.6 million children die, and 1.2 million stillbirths occur, each year.

•  Many of these deaths are preventable. 200 million children fail to reach their full developmental potential because of malnutrition, infection, prematurity and lack of nurturing. Again, much of this failure is preventable with appropriate interventions and treatment.
•  Mental health conditions represent about 14% of the total global burden of disease, with a significant portion of this burden in LMICs, where there are very limited options for treatment.
•  In 45 countries around the world, less than half of the population has access to adequate sanitation facilities.
•  Approx. 700,000 children die every year from diarrhea caused by unsafe water and poor sanitation.
•  For a majority of the 800 million girls and women between the ages of 15 and 49 who are menstruating on any given day, there continue to be barriers to accessing high-quality menstrual hygiene management, such as lack of menstrual or reproductive health education or knowledge, cultural stigma around menstruation and lack of affordable, quality menstrual products.