Sudan

Young boys are among the first to celebrate the festivities brought about by South Sudan's first participation in Africa Malaria Day. This year's theme for Africa Malaria Day was
In Sudan, decades of ongoing conflict and brutal civil war, debilitating droughts, and reliance on subsistence farming have impoverished the majority of those who have managed to survive. Shifting refugee populations have experienced a persistence of malaria, dysentery, and tuberculosis resulting from malnutrition, particularly in the rural areas of Southern Sudan. Among the relatively stable—for now—peri-urban and urban populations, AIDS has steadily increased. A scarcity of trained health care professionals and the absence of adequate facilities have left Southern Sudan with the highest rate of maternal mortality in the world. The fragile health care infrastructure throughout Sudan lacks the capacity to provide vaccines, life-saving drugs, and basic medical supplies that would curb most preventable diseases. Since 2005, MSH has strived to tackle the malaria problem by providing technical assistance to scale up interventions and efficiently manage pharmaceutical resources. More generally, MSH plans to focus on strengthening health care delivery systems and developing a stable, skilled health care workforce, especially within Southern Sudan’s displaced populations. The goal is to enable leadership development by providing managers with the means and training to build sustainable teams. A community-based workforce would provide refugee populations with firm roots and engender positive interactions, while ensuring the delivery of fundamental health care services to individuals. Healing a people means working to build effective, nurturing relationships that will promote the health and stability of individuals, families, and communities.

Experience in this Country

Sudan Health Transformation Project (SHTP II)

2009–2012

In the second phase of the Sudan Health Transformation Project (SHTP II), MSH is transitioning health service delivery from relief to development. Specifically, SHTP II is expanding access and coverage by:

  • enhancing quality of health services through an integrated package of high-impact services;
  • increasing demand through community mobilization;
  • engendering the community’s confidence in health services through strengthening of County Health Departments (CHDs) and the MOH.

MSH, in partnership with the International Rescue Committee, is working alongside as many as 12 international nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) responsible for delivering primary health services in a target county. The goal is to establish fully functional service delivery points (FFSDP) with coverage of 80 percent of the catchment population in 12 focus counties within three years.

Management Sciences for Health is pleased to release an RFP for the new SHTP II Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) program. The subcontract will have three components under expanding the adoption of key hygiene behaviors: i) social marketing of Point of Use (POU) water treatment chemicals; ii) increasing knowledge & promoting the adoption of proper hand washng with soap at critical moments; and iii) demand creation of sanitation facilities for safe disposal of human excreta.

 

Click here for the RFP

Click here for the budget template

Click here for detailed responses to queries submitted by November 3, 2009

Strengthening Pharmaceutical Systems (SPS) Program

2007–2012

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Strengthening Pharmaceutical Systems is a follow-on to the Rational Pharmaceutical Management (RPM) Plus Program. MSH is pleased to announce that the US Agency for International Development has awarded us the Strengthening Pharmaceutical Systems (SPS) Leader with Associates Cooperative Agreement. SPS will focus on four key results:

  • Improve governance in the pharmaceutical sector
  • Strengthen pharmaceutical management systems to support public health services
  • Contain the emergence and spread of antimicrobial resistance
  • Expand access to and improved use of essential medicines
The five-year, $147.5 million cooperative agreement is led by Dr. Douglas Keene as Program Director, Dr. Sameh Saleeb and Dr. Francis Aboagye-Nyame as Deputy Directors. To help meet goals relating to the key result areas, the SPS Program is building on the successes of RPM Plus while expanding the range of technical areas to include financing, pharmacovigilance, pharmaceutical care, integration of new health technologies, and increased use of the private sector, among others. MSH will accomplish this enhanced program of activities by collaborating with a number of new partner organizations. The SPS core partner team includes: In addition to the core team, MSH is joined by a select group of organizations that will serve as specialized resources for SPS. These organizations include: As we work toward the overall goal of SPS, the SPS team is striving to advance the science and "art" of strengthening pharmaceutical management systems. The SPS Program provides a great opportunity for MSH and USAID to continue supporting developing countries in their quest to increase access to essential medicines and facilitate the scale up of vital treatment programs.

Rational Pharmaceutical Management Plus Program

2000–2008

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RPM Plus works in more than 40 developing countries to provide technical assistance to strengthen pharmaceutical and health commodity management systems. The program works to improve the availability and use of quality medicines, supplies, and basic medical equipment in the public and private sectors and to promote practical, sustainable changes in pharmaceuticals management by developing capacity within cooperating countries and fostering collaboration between countries.

Advance Africa

2002–2004

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Advance Africa was a family planning/reproductive health service delivery project designed to increase access to and improve the quality of clinical and nonclinical programs in sub-Saharan Africa. The project worked to increase capacity for informed decision-making by clients and communities, and for the public sector to sustain quality family planning/reproductive health service delivery programs. Advance Africa also worked with USAID missions to scale up existing efforts by closing gaps in service delivery, and building partnerships among public and private health and nonhealth organizations. The project implemented innovative approaches to revitalize family planning programs within the broad context of Africa’s HIV/AIDS pandemic. MSH was the prime of a consortium of six international organizations that managed implementation of the Advance Africa project.

Sudan Country Map
 

Country Profile

County Profile
1 PRB 2006 World Population Datesheet
2 WHO Global Health Atlas
Population1 41,200,000
Infant Mortality Rate per 1,000 live births1 64.0 deaths/ 1,000 live births
Maternal Mortality Rate per 100,000 live births2
 590/100,000 live births
HIV & AIDS Adult Prevalence1 1.6%
Population Living Below US$2 per day1 NA
Life Expectancy at Birth, Both Sexes1 58 yrs