north darfur state has been affected by conflict since 2003 and the government has not been able to provide adequate curative health services to the people. the government has come to rely on non-governmental organizations (ngos) to provide curative health services. this study was conducted to examine the existing collaboration between government and ngos in curative health service delivery in ...

The conflict in North Darfur State, western Sudan, started in 2003. With the country's limited resources , the conflict led to difficulties in the delivery of curative health services. This conflict affected 1.6 million people, 81% of the population of North Darfur State, with 37% classified as Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) (1). Eighty percent of the people in rural areas and 47% in urban...

BACKGROUND North Darfur State has been affected by conflict since 2003 and the government has not been able to provide adequate curative health services to the people. The government has come to rely on Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) to provide curative health services. This study was conducted to examine the existing collaboration between government and NGOs in curative health service d...

BACKGROUND Conflict in North Darfur state, Western Sudan started in 2003, and the delivering of curative health services was becoming a greater challenge for the country's limited resources. NGOs have played an important role in providing curative health services. OBJECTIVES To examine the role that Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) have played in providing curative health services, as we...

Executive Summary Approximately 2.2 million internally displaced persons (" IDPs ") in Darfur are living in dense camps scattered in arid areas with low fuelwood productivity. Unsustainable harvesting of fuelwood by the IDPs has created ever increasing zones of denudation, that now (in November 2005) have reached several kilometers from the camp boundaries. Leaving the safety of the camps to fe...

north Darfur is not receiving health care, and 370 000 people across Darfur did not receive monthly rations in July. One of the most important lessons is that without durable peace, the health gains can easily be lost. Health indicators must be used as an advocacy tool in the political process. The international community must critically examine its efforts in order to achieve sustainable resul...

The article presents a comparative analysis of genocide in Rwanda and Darfur. The first half of the article examines the patterns and origins of violence in both cases and uses the comparison to generate some theoretical inferences about the causes of genocide. The analysis finds that both cases demonstrate a similar character of violence but that in Rwanda the violence was more intense, more e...

BACKGROUND Bluetongue virus (BTV) is an insect-transmitted virus, which causes bluetongue disease (BT) in sheep and a fatal hemorrhagic infection in North American white-tailed deer. However, in cattle the disease is typically asymptomatic and no overt clinical signs of disease appear to be associated with BTV infection. Serological evidence and isolation of different BTV serotypes have been re...

BACKGROUND The humanitarian response to the crisis in Darfur is the largest humanitarian operation in the world. To investigate the evolution of the conditions of the affected population, we analysed trends in malnutrition and mortality, the most widely accepted indicators for assessing the degree of severity of a crisis. METHODS We did a meta-analysis of 164 publicly available surveys taking...