Public Health in Sudan: Challenges and Opportunities

By: Anab Mohamed Email: anab.mohamed87j9@gmail.com           Covid19 has come and it is here to stay. It is going to be a while before effective vaccines are developed and cures are found. For Sudan, access to essential medicines and interventions for communicable, non-communicable, and neglected diseases has been challenging, which is also likely to contribute to the longer time it would take to access the Covid19 vaccines once they are developed. Sudan’s current transitional state involves challenges within the health and pharmaceutical sectors, a hallmark of which is the reduced capacity of the pharmaceutical sector to access the global pipeline of drugs and vaccines. Until those challenges are overcome, it is important to maintain vigilance over the spread of Covid19 in communities. With future plans to slowly begin lifting the lockdown measures, the conflation of " going back to normal" and lowering the guard against covid19 poses a serious risk. For t...

By Anab Mohamed  Email: anab.mohamed87j9@gmail.com     “This is such a huge insult to the family! What do you want the people to say? That we did not show up? We have to go to attend the funeral! All my neighbors are going, and this is our culture and tradition. What will people say about me if I don’t go and it is right in the neighborhood? My other neighbor just came from the funeral and she told me that they were asking about me. Many people have shown up and gone. Why should I not go? This is shameful! Utterly shameful!"  “ I don't care what the blasphemous FCC 1 folks are saying. I am still going to go to the mosque to pray! I am a Muslim man, and can’t miss prayer in the mosque. What would Allah say of me on Judgement Day? This is just a trick from those blasphemous folks! They want to ruin our traditions and culture and now they are after our faith. They are using the virus as a trick. If I am meant to die and it is Allah’s will then nothing will stop it”...