Emergency medical aid needed now in Sudan

THREE years ago north and south Sudan signed a peace agreement ending decades of civil war.

However, the people of south Sudan continue to struggle for survival, dying from preventable and curable diseases and facing outbreaks on a regular basis.

Maternal mortality rates are among the highest in the world and poverty related diseases such as measles, malaria, tuberculosis and the potentially fatal parasitic disease, kala azar, remain major killers.