MSF is mainly supporting the Ministry of Health in screening for notifiable diseases, nutritional screening and measles vaccination for children from six months to 15 years. MSF has also set up a basic health post at the border point.

MSF’s emergency team report that 80 per cent of those fleeing the violence are women and children. Many have walked for long distances in intense heat, with little food or water, and are in a poor state of health when they reach the border.

South Sudanese refugees in Kenya, Uganda and Ethiopia

More than 83,000 people have fled South Sudan since conflict erupted in the country one month ago, becoming refugees in neighbouring countries including Kenya, Uganda and Ethiopia. MSF has set up medical activities on the Kenyan side of the border area to South Sudan, as hundreds of refugees are arriving across the border each day.