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SUDAN - Country Profile
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Updated: January 2007 |
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National Strategic Framework Status
National Strategic Plan 2003 - 2007 has been drawn up.
HIV/AIDS Organisations:
- Federal Ministry of Health
Khartoum, Sudan
Tel: +249 183 435450
Fax: +249 183 435449
- Sudan National AIDS Control Programme
Contact person: Dr Mohamed Ahmed Abdel Hafeez Programme Manager
Tel: +249 912 356 655
Fax: +249 183 435 449
E-mail: [email protected]
Prevention; epidemiologic monitoring; control, diagnosis and monitoring of STIs, HIV/AIDS.
- Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) - South Sudan
Contact person: Chris Smoot
121 Riverside Drive PO Box 14756
Nairobi, Kenya
Tel: +254 2 443 936
E-mail: [email protected]
· Education, Emergencies, Nutrition, Health.
- Norwegian Church AID (NCA)
Contact person: Stein Villumstad
P.O. Box 52802, 00200 City Square
Nairobi, Kenya
Tel: +254 20 608 283/4 / +254 2 608 508 / +254 2 608 267
Fax: +254 20 608 511
E-mail: [email protected]
Website: www.nca.no
· Support; information; education; prevention.
- Society for Women and AIDS in Africa - Sudan
Contact person: Fathia Mahmoud
E-mail: [email protected] / [email protected]
· Advocacy for women and children affected by HIV/AIDS; community mobilization.
- SPLM Health Secretariat
Contact person: Dr Bellario Ahoy Ngong, chief health officer
P.O. Box 10114/00100 GPO Nairobi
Tel: +254 20 2562840
E-mail: [email protected]
· Overall policy and supervision of the health system in Southern Sudan.
- UNICEF - Operation Lifeline Sudan
P.O. Box 44145
Nairobi, Kenya
Tel: +254 20 621 234
E-mail: [email protected]
- UNAIDS Country Co-ordinator
Contact person: Musa Bungudu
Tel: +249 11 773 121
Fax: +249 11 783 764
E-mail: [email protected]
Contact person: Hind Hassan, Partnership Advisor
Tel: +249 11 773121
Fax: +249 11 783764
E-mail: [email protected]
- UN Theme Group on HIV/AIDS, Chair
Contact person: Dr Guido Sabatinelli
WHO Representative
Tel: +249 11 776471
Fax: +249 11 776282
E-mail: [email protected]
Sources:
The Presidents Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR)
The World Bank
World Health Organization
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Country Profiles
United Nations Population Division, Department of Economic and Social Affairs. 2005. €œWorld Population Prospects: The 2004 Revision.€ New York.
The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS)
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| Country Indicators |
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| Demographic data |
Year |
Estimate |
Source |
| Total population (thousands) |
2004 |
34,333 |
UN population division database |
| Female population aged 15-24 (thousands) |
2004 |
3,306 |
UN population division database |
| Population aged 15-49 (thousands) |
2004 |
16,866 |
UN population division database |
| Annual population growth rate (%) |
1992-2002 |
2.3 |
UN population division database |
| % of population in urban areas |
2003 |
38.4 |
UN population division database |
| Average annual growth rate of urban population |
2000-2005 |
4.6 |
UN population division database |
| Crude birth rate (births per 1,000 pop.) |
2004 |
32 |
UN population division database |
| Crude death rate (deaths per 1,000 pop.) |
2004 |
11.6 |
UN population division database |
| Maternal mortality rate (per 100,000 live births) |
2000 |
590 |
WHO (WHR2004)/UNICEF |
| Life expectancy at birth (years) |
2002 |
57 |
World Health Report 2004, WHO |
| Total fertility rate |
2002 |
4.4 |
World Health Report 2004, WHO |
| Infant mortality rate (per 1,000 live births) |
2000 |
71 |
World Health Report 2004, WHO |
| Under 5 mortality rate (per 1,000 live births) |
2000 |
110 |
World Health Report 2004, WHO |
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For consistency reasons the data used in the above table are taken from official UN publications
| Socio-economic data |
Year |
Estimate |
Source |
| Gross national income, ppp, per capita (Int.$) |
2002 |
1,690 |
World Bank |
| Gross domestic product, per capita % growth |
2001-2002 |
8.3 |
World Bank |
| Per capita total expenditure on health (Int.$) |
2001 |
39 |
World Health Report 2004, WHO |
| General government expenditure on health as % of total expenditure on health |
2001 |
18.7 |
World Health Report 2004, WHO |
| Total adult illiteracy rate |
2000 |
42.3 |
UNESCO |
| Adult male illiteracy rate |
2000 |
30.8 |
UNESCO |
| Adult female illiteracy rate |
2000 |
53.8 |
UNESCO |
| Gross primary school enrolment ratio, male |
2000/2001 |
64 |
UNESCO |
| Gross primary school enrolment ratio, female |
2000/2001 |
54 |
UNESCO |
| Gross secondary school enrolment ratio, male |
2000/2001 |
not available |
UNESCO |
| Gross secondary school
enrolment ratio, female |
2000/2001 |
not available |
UNESCO |
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For consistency reasons the data used in the above table are taken from official UN publications
Source: WHO/UNAIDS epidemiological fact sheets on HIV/AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Infections, 2004 Update.
Email: [email protected]
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| Epidemiological Fact Sheet |
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Estimated number of adults and children
living with HIV/AIDS, end of 2003
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| These estimates include all people with HIV
infection, whether or not they have developed symptoms of
AIDS, alive at the end of 2003: |
| Adults and children |
400,000 |
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| Adults (15-49) |
380,000 |
Adult rate(%) 2.3 |
| Women (15-49) |
220,000 |
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| Children (0-15) |
21,000 |
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Estimated number of deaths due to AIDS
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| Estimated number of adults and children who died of AIDS during 2003: |
| Deaths in 2003 |
23,000 |
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Estimated number of orphans
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| Estimated number of children who have lost their mother or father or both parents to AIDS and who were alive and under age 17 at the end of 2003: |
| Current living orphans |
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Assessment of the epidemiological situation (2004)
In October, 2002, the results of an epidemiologic survey conducted among 7,385 individuals in 11 of the 16 states, involving a number of groups at varying risk of infection. were reported*. Persons tested included Sudanese and nonSudanese, and the seroprevalence among Sudanese was 1.6%. Of 3,355 women in ANC care, 30 (1.0%) were infected. Of 367 Sudanese sex workers, 16 (4.4%) were infected. Lesser prevalences were found among prisoners (4 of 200, 2.0%), soldiers (2 of 377, 0.5%), those with STDs (4 of 362, 1.1%), university students (4 of 369, 1.1%)and TB patients (6 of 367, 1.6%). The Sudan National AIDS Control Program HIV surveillance system indicates the large majority of infections are acquired via heterosexual transmission, and this survey showed levels of awareness of HIV/AIDS and means to protect onself from becoming infected were poor.
Previous HIV prevalence surveys have occurred among pregnant women, with prevalences as high as 2.94% in 1997, indicating regional variation in ANC prevalences. Although the 2002 report did not include blood donors, HIV rates among blood donors increased from 0.15% in 1993 to 1.4% in 1999 and 2000 respectively.
*Sudan National AIDS Control Program, Federal Ministry of Health, Situation Analysis: Behavioural and Epidemiologic Surveys and Response Analysis, October 2002.
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