With a maternal mortality ratio of over 1,700 per 100,000 live births, Southern Sudan has some of the worst health indicators in the world. From 1985 to 2005, Sudan was ravaged by armed civil conflict between a predominantly black Christian population in the south and the Arab dominated government based in Khartoum in the north. The ensuing civil strife resulted in thousands of refugees being driven to neighboring countries and the most severe internally displaced persons' situation the world has ever seen. As a result of the decades of conflict, extreme poverty and lack of development, the remaining Sudanese are deprived of life-saving health care.
COHI recently completed a needs assessment and planning is currently underway to begin activity implementation in the field. To learn more, please email info@cohintl.org.
COHI Board of Advisors member, Sarah Chynoweth, serves as the Reproductive Health Project Manager at the Women's Commission for Refugee Women and Children. Sarah recently appeared on "Keep it Green" to talk about the on-going threat of war on women's reproductive health. In this interview she talks specifically about the need for urgent support in Sudan.