As of May 2019, over 180,000 people live in the six UN Protection of Civilians (PoC) sites across South Sudan. Of these, over 105,000 are in Bentiu and more than 29,000 in Malakal, where Médecins Sans Frontières‎/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) is providing healthcare. These PoC sites – which are unique to South Sudan – were created in 2013 after thousands of people fled from their homes and sought protection from the violent civil war in existing UN bases, which then grew to accommodate them. While they began as a temporary solution, they have been in de facto operation for almost six years because the need for them still exists. But the relative safety these vulnerable people found in the PoC sites has come at the expense of being forced to live in undignified conditions with high exposure to life-threatening diseases. MSF runs hospitals inside these two PoC sites.