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MSF's response to the cholera outbreak in South Sudan's neglected camps

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) urgently calls on local authorities and national and international humanitarian organisations to immediately scale-up the response to the rapidly escalating cholera outbreak in South Sudan – especially in the camps for internally displaced people.

Persistent chronic gaps in healthcare, funding cuts, dire water and sanitation conditions and gaps in other essential services have created the perfect conditions for the disease to spread. In the camps in Unity and Central Equatoria states in particular, MSF teams are witnessing an alarming and rapid increase in the number of suspected cholera cases, which are overwhelming the capacity to respond.

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