In Aweil Civil Hospital, MSF works together with the Ministry of Health to try and reduce maternal and paediatric mortality, treat malnutrition and respond to emergencies.
MSF has been working in Aweil Civil Hospital, in Northern Bahr El Ghazal State since 2008.
It is the only hospital in the state, serving a population of approximately 750,000 people. The program was launched in order to respond to the health needs of women and children, and also to respond to seasonal emergencies in the region as they arise, such as outbreaks of meningitis or malaria, and peaks of malnutrition. *** Local Caption *** Medecins Sans Frontieres has been working in Southern Sudan since 1983 first with the refugees coming from neighbouring countries then later concentrated its effort in supporting health structures, responding to epidemics and displacements of population, vaccination campaigns and nutrition programmes.

MSF started to work in Northern Bahr el Ghazal in 2000 in Akuem where our teams ran a primary and secondary health program that closed in 2007. In 2007 MSF chose to remain in South Sudan to focus on emergency response that lead to a series of interventions in Northern Bahr al Ghazal (NBEG): displacement from flooding, nutritional peak and cholera