The ICRC in Sudan

Sudan. A displaced woman tends to her crops.

The ICRC’s priorities in Sudan are to ensure that people affected by armed conflict and other situations of violence receive emergency aid and enjoy the protection to which they are entitled under international humanitarian law (IHL). The ICRC provides water, food, shelter and medical care, and re-establishes contact between people separated by fighting. Read full overview

Highlights

Facts and Figures

Between March and November 2012, the ICRC:

brought aid to around 500,000 people in Darfur;
supported a vaccination programme that helped 100,000 people and reached over 800,000 animals belonging to nomadic communities, and trained over 200 people to provide basic animal health services;
saw 50,000 patients for general checkups and 30,000 for routine vaccinations;
supported the immunization of 45,000 children against polio and some 450,000 people against meningitis; supported the ongoing campaign to vaccinate over 206,000 people in Niertiti and Sharq Al Jabal;
fitted 2,000 patients with prostheses or orthoses and 900 patients with walking aids;
with the Sudanese Red Crescent, delivered and collected over 9,500 Red Cross messages between family members;
supported the Sudanese Red Crescent in holding a round table on "Health Care in Danger" (an ICRC initiative highlighting the dangers facing health services in armed conflict and other emergencies) together with representatives of the military medical corps and of the Ministry of Health.