Sudan

Healthcare

International Medical Corps currently supports 10 health facilities, six mobile health and nutrition teams and three stabilization centers across Sudan, delivering essential health services, strengthening health systems and providing resources to deploy skilled health workers. Essential health services include treatment and prevention of disease, maternal and newborn health, health education, immunization, child healthcare and surveillance, and referrals to emergency- and secondary-level healthcare services. Maternal and newborn health services include prenatal care, safe deliveries attended by skilled birth attendants, postnatal and newborn care and healthy timing and spacing of pregnancies to reduce maternal and newborn mortality. We also provide care for survivors of VAWG and safe referrals for survivors. In 2025, we provided nearly 1 million outpatient consultations, including treating patients for acute respiratory infections, diarrheal diseases and malaria, which continue to be the leading causes of disease in Sudan. We also immunized hundreds of thousands of children, and 14,518 babies were delivered by skilled healthcare personnel.

Health Systems Strengthening

International Medical Corps works closely with health authorities, local organizations and community stakeholders to strengthen health systems and improve the quality and availability of healthcare services. We support Sudan’s Ministry of Health (MoH) in providing healthcare services. Our activities include supporting service delivery, health facility rehabilitation, enhancing health information and reporting systems, deploying healthcare workers, training, and providing medical commodities and emergency preparedness, contingency planning and response.

Nutrition

International Medical Corps provides nutrition services for those most vulnerable to malnutrition, including children under 5, pregnant women and nursing mothers. We operate outpatient therapeutic programs (OTPs), targeted supplementary feeding programs (TSFPs) and stabilization centers for malnourished children with medical complications. We provide nutrition awareness sessions for mothers on different topics such as the importance of breastfeeding, dietary diversification using local foods and targeted nutritional support. In 2025, we reached hundreds of thousands of people through vital nutrition programs, including providing 128,445 caregivers of children under 2 with essential infant and young-child feeding counseling and support.

Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)

Many communities in Sudan experience sub-standard water quality and insufficient quantity—17.3 million people lack access to basic drinking water, while about 24 million lack access to proper sanitation facilities. Influxes of refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs) frequently strain host communities and camp water-collection and sanitation systems. By expanding access to clean water, creating proper waste-disposal systems and providing safe sanitation facilities, we restore and protect healthy living conditions.

In Sudan, we implement WASH activities as part of health, nutrition and protection interventions, including:

• • promoting good hygiene practices;
  • creating waste disposal facilities and safe practices;
  • chlorinating, rehabilitating and maintaining water points;
  • constructing and rehabilitating drainage canals and latrines; and
  • improving WASH and infection prevention and control in health facilities.

In 2025, we constructed or rehabilitated 17 water points for internally displaced people and host communities, and reached nearly half a million people with information about the need for safe hygiene practices and other WASH activities.

Mental Health and Psychosocial Support

The ongoing conflict has exposed millions of people to violence, displacement, loss and psychological distress. International Medical Corps provides MHPSS services through an integrated, multisectoral approach, embedding MHPSS within health programs while ensuring strong linkages with nutrition, protection, VAWG and community-based services. Our MHPSS program aims to improve mental health, enhance resilience and well-being, build social support networks and empower affected populations, including children and youth. Our MHPSS services include psychological support, mental health case management, psychological first aid (PFA) and group psychosocial support (PSS). Community-based PSS activities include community outreach, mental health awareness and psychoeducation. International Medical Corps also provides training for key stakeholders, including general health providers, MHPSS staff, community leaders, local partners and staff from other humanitarian agencies. In 2025, we provided mental health consultations to 6,308 people, and 25,541 people participated in psychosocial support activities.

Violence Against Women and Girls

To address rising protection needs, we launched a VAWG program in 2024, working with local and women-led organizations to provide survivor-centered services, including case management, psychosocial support and referrals. We integrate VAWG with health, nutrition and MHPSS programming, strengthen referral pathways, engage communities to address harmful norms, and support coordination and capacity building.

Capacity Building

Overall, the health system’s limited capacity and response mechanisms have severely weakened the ability to provide adequate healthcare. Since arriving in Sudan in 2004, we have trained thousands of local and national medical personnel, including traditional birth attendants and community leaders, in collaboration with the MoH. In 2025, we trained 1,519 MoH staff in emergency obstetric and newborn care, rational drug use, intimate partner violence response, integrated management of childhood illnesses, malnutrition management, infant and young child feeding, outbreak preparedness, infection prevention and control, MHPSS, safe referrals, data management and VAWG case management. Localization remains central to our approach, supporting local leadership and helping to build sustainable, lasting change.