(13 Aug 2025)
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Khartoum, Sudan – 13 August 2025
1. Various of health workers preparing cholera vaccine in boxes
2. Various of health workers carrying vaccination boxes putting into vehicle
3. Various of health workers walking in neighbourhood
4. Various of health workers distributing cholera vaccine to people, children
5. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Aziza Berima, healthcare worker:
"The campaign began on August 10 and will continue until the 19th in Khartoum. We have 8 targeted administrative units and a total of 105 health centres, both temporary and permanent. The goal is to vaccinate 155,333 children.”
6. Various of child and woman being given a vaccine
7. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Aziza Berima, healthcare worker:
“The targeted age group is from one year and above all, age groups older than one year are included in the vaccination campaign."
8. Man holding his daughter, taking cholera vaccine
9. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Montaser al-Sayed, resident:
“When we returned from displacement, we feared cholera and fevers. Malaria was widespread and severe, it’s not the kind we knew before, but a stronger form. Still, malaria can be treated. Cholera is the difficult one, and now, thank God, the arrival of the vaccine has brought people reassurance that cholera will not spread."
10. People taking cholera vaccine
11. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Ammar Abdul Aziz, resident:
“About the health situation right now, people are suffering because there is an outbreak, and they are afraid. But tonight, when we heard about the vaccination, we felt relieved and knew, thank God, that little by little things will get better, especially after what we went through during the war.“
12. Various of children being given a vaccine
13. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Razaz Abdullah, resident:
“As a mother, I felt great relief that the cholera vaccine has arrived, and from that moment we have felt reassured."
14. People gathering for vaccination
STORYLINE:
A 10-day cholera vaccination campaign has kicked off in the Sudanese capital of Khartoum in an ongoing effort to prevent what humanitarians warn is a rapidly spreading outbreak, fueled by increased displacement, ongoing fighting and recent, heavy rainfall.
Healthcare worker Aziza Berima said the campaign began on Sunday and would conclude on Tuesday across 105 medical facilities, as they target adults as well as 155,333 children.
Montaser al-Sayed, a resident, said he and his family were afraid when they returned to their home in Khartoum after being displaced by war. They feared cholera more than malaria — which he noted is easier to treat — but said the vaccination campaign reassured them.
“As a mother, I felt great relief that the cholera vaccine has arrived, and from that moment we have felt reassured,” said another resident, Razaz Abdullah.
Last month, United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), said that over 32,000 suspected cholera cases were reported in Sudan in 2025 alone. Since the disease outbreak was declared in July 2024, more than 83,000 cases and 2,100 deaths were reported, according to the U.N. agency that cited the health ministry.
Although vaccination campaigns launched last year helped contain the outbreak, the disease has continued to spread in recent months amid cross-border transmission, collapsing infrastructure, a failing healthcare system, and poor living conditions all caused by the ongoing war between the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and the Sudanese army.
AP Video by Hazem Hassan
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