Sudan

Our approach
Description of the mission

Première Urgence Internationale is actively engaged in Sudan, addressing critical needs in health, nutrition, and psychosocial support. The mission supports fixed health facilities and deploys mobile health clinics in our areas of intervention, provides drugs and material support to health facilities, including the payment of government health staff incentives, and offers nutrition treatment for malnourished children, pregnant women, and lactating women. Additionally, activities are organized to alleviate the burden of the crisis on the population’s mental health. By integrating structured health services with a community outreach, Première Urgence Internationale ensures that healthcare is accessible, relevant, and responsive to the specific needs of the populations we serve. This comprehensive package is applied wherever needs are present, irrespective of the political control of the States, spanning both the Western part of the country, including West and Central Darfur, and the Eastern part, covering the Khartoum area, Gedaref, and Al Jazirah States.

Première Urgence Internationale
in action

Following the eruption of the conflict in April 2023, activities had to be suspended and international staff evacuated. In the eastern part, Première Urgence Internationale swiftly responded to the humanitarian needs arising from the conflict, being among the first humanitarian organizations to resume operations by deploying a mobile health team in Al Jazirah state in early May 2023. Subsequently, 12 health facilities and 3 mobile clinics in Al Jazirah and Gedaref states were supported by late 2023. However, the expansion of the conflict to Al Jazirah state in December 2023 forced us to suspend activities once again, and to reallocate operations to neighboring areas. In 2024, our response to internally displaced people continues in Gedaref state, while we retain limited access in Al Jazirah state, and open a new intervention in Khartoum state. In total, 33 structures are supported, including 24 health facilities and 9 mobile health teams.

In the Western part, due to successive waves of violence in West Darfur, the team could only resume activities in mid-December 2023. Since then, operations in West Darfur state have supported 15 structures, with plans to open activities in Central Darfur state to support 2 health facilities and 2 mobile health teams.