MSF staff signing a vaccination card for a patient who has received a measles vaccine in the Um Sangour camp, White Nile state, Sudan. Um Sangour camp is one of the ten camps in the White Nile hosting both refugees – mainly people who have fled from South Sudan – and internally displaced people fleeing from Khartoum and other parts of Sudan. The camps are in urgent need of scaled up assistance: by end of July 2023 the population of the camps had increased by almost half - from 290 000 refugees’ pre-conflict to 428 000 people. After an increase in suspected cases of measles, the Sudanese Ministry of Health started a measles vaccinations campaign on the 24 of August for children under five – supported by MSF.

The vaccination campaign was essential and provided a big impact in reducing the spread of outbreaks, as many children are malnourished which if aggravated with measles can be a deadly combination. While the suspected measles is decreasing, children under 15 living in the camps and children in the outskirts of the refugee camp are without vaccination.