Emergency integrated primary health care services for conflict affected populations in remote areas of Duk county Jonglei States, South Sudan The overall aim of the project is to maintain and sustain the existing safety net of basic essential emergency health services with improved emergency referral services for communities in Duk County with a focus on women, children amp IDPs/returnees. The goal of the project is to contribute to the reduction in health related mortality and morbidity, and improve access to high quality lifesaving emergency health interventions for the most vulnerable populations notably U5 children and pregnant and lactating women. 

The project target group is composed of U5 (at least 75% of the beneficiaries, boys and girls equally targeted) and PampLW women (at least 25% of the beneficiaries) from host, IDP and returnees’ communities with curative and preventive health intervention benefiting the entire population in the county since JDF is the long health and nutrition partner in Duk County implementing RRHP and ICCM project with support from UNICEF/WFP/OFDA. 
With funding from UNICEF/WB/UKAID, JDF in partnership with CHD is supporting only 5 health facilities (1Hospital, 2 PHCC and 2PHCU) out of 16 health facilities in Duk County. This project will allow JDF to expand services in Duk and fill health gaps not supported by UNICEF funding. 
This project will provide support to host communities in underserved areas affected by the recent violence in Duk County. The intervention will also target new arrivals (38,000) fleeing recent insecurity in the neighboring Counties of Uror and Ayod to Pagaak and Panyang payams of Duk county.

The project will support 2 mobile units (Ayueldit in Padiet Payam and Patuet in Panyang Payam)  with all the clinical packages while focusing on EPI outreaches and community health education outreach activities. Program approaches will include inpatient and outpatient consultation, community health education, active case detection and treatment of SAM with medical complications, deworming and Vitamin A campaigns and EPI program both static and mobile out reaches targeting IDPs and host communities with extension of services to the cattle camps. The activities of this project will focus on ensuring that PHC and RH services are available in all the area integrated capacity building (Protection, WASH, Health and Nutrition) to prevent, detect and respond to epidemic prone disease outbreaks, guarantee an adequate availability of drugs such as anti-Malarial, anti-diarrheal, cholera medications, sensitize the communities promoting the adoption of good health and hygiene practices ensure measles and OPV vaccinations for under 5 in addition to routine vaccination at the Health facilities.

The project will strengthen provision of emergency primary health care services with particular focus on maternal and child health care both preventive and curative services to the most vulnerable group of the rural communities supported by pre positioning of essential drugs, medical equipment amp supplies to all the targeted health facilities as well as strengthening health facilities and capacity of health staffs to respond to quality emergency health services in Duk County.

The added value of the project is integration with Protection, Education, Nutrition and WASH program long-standing partnership with CHD, SMOH, UNICEF, WHO and other partners  for health system strengthening and improved health service delivery for local communities and IDPs/returnees in Duk County.