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As in many developing nations, international aid is both an invaluable help to South Sudan and a crutch that sometimes enables it to avoid reality. International Rescue Committee (IRC) Community Case Management Officer Pitia Jacob (L) walks with Paulino Angui Akot in Majak Ajuong, in South Sudan, on June 2, 2012. All pictures made available to msnbc.com on July 10, 2012.
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A young girl with malaria rests in the in-patient ward of the Malualkon Primary Health Care Center in Malualkon, in Northern Bahr el Ghazal on June 1, 2012.
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One of a few broken ambulances at the Aweil State Hospital, the only hospital in the state of Northern Bahr el Ghazal, on June 2, 2012.
Reuters reports — Nowhere is South Sudan's dependence on the outside world more clear than in its health system.
The people of Africa's newest nation — which celebrated its first birthday on Monday — face cholera, measles, meningitis, polio, river blindness, sleeping sickness, yellow fever and whooping cough. Malaria accounts for a quarter of all hospital visits. South Sudan has one of the highest maternal mortality rates in the world. Around one in six children die within their first year.
And there are just 120 doctors and 100 nurses in a country of 8 million. Foreign governments and other donors gave just under $1 billion or so in aid in 2010, and around four-fifths of all health care is provided by outside groups. Read the full story.
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Blood samples to be tested for malaria are seen at the Aweil State Hospital in Aweil on June 2, 2012.
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Left to right: Toma Adeng, Maria Abuk, Mary Achol, and Martha Akuch, who work as voluntary birth attendants, pose for a photograph at the Malualkon Primary Health Care Center in Malualkon on June 1, 2012.
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A handwritten medical chart is seen on the wall of the Malualkon Primary Health Care Center in Malualkon on June 1, 2012.
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Men carry bags of food while women wait for their rations at the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) food distribution site in Pibor on June 25, 2012.
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A U.N. helicopter lands at the airstrip in Pibor on June 26, 2012. Development experts have grown more sophisticated in recent decades about how they deliver aid. But in fragile states such as South Sudan, getting the balance right between helping a country and helping that country help itself remains incredibly difficult.
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everyone bookmark this page and revisit in 2014. Welcome to Obamacare.
Where do I sign up. Really.
This new nation is Africa should just go on Obama Care. After all it is free. The finest doctors doctors same day surgery. No limits to cost.
And they will be able to retain one of the eight doctors that they currently have.
We should send them the whole federal government and they send us their whole population and then they can get a good meal and we get rid of all our problems but we'll have to figure out what to do with Pelosi and Barney Frank that could kill the deal
"...gave just under $1 billion..."
Boy, there's a solid investment.
don't tell this is a preview of things to come with obamacare!
sorry for the multiple postings but this things erred and i can't delete. i blame bush, of course.
don't tell this is a preview of things to come with obamacare!
don't tell this is a preview of things to come with obamacare!
It is but I won't
The reason they have 120 doctors for 8 million people is because they have Obama care
Socialism in action! We are bankrupt, so all liberals send $100 to kintakuntafund.gov
the majority of you are some selfish Bxxtards!! No compassion what so ever! And I will also bet not one of you has gone without even a meal, much less days without eating, and you are the first ones to say lets fix America's poor first, and then call them lazy and they should get off their azzes and go to work if they want to eat. This is a country that has been at war for decades, most of these children you are talking about have been born out of rape to young girls that no nothing of sex much less birth control. No we don't need to support a nation, that is unless they have goods we need! I would much prefer this nation get the 4 billion we are going to give Afghanistan for the next 4 years (16 billion). And trust me if they find oil in S. Sudan, we will be the first ones in to help, all for the wrong reasons. We could all help but you have to care first and it is obvious most of you never leave your sofa except to get a snack and complain about what is wrong with everyone but you, you never see that you are part of the problem and in no way do you want to try to help fix it. I hope you never have someone you love become critically ill and realize there is nothing that can be done, it changes you deep inside and makes you care more about the world and makes you realize just how small and insignificant you are.
USA healthcare system in year 2035!
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what they need to do is begin to hold the corrupt so and so's "in power" accountable; i can guarantee you that if they are not the previous "so and so's" they are thick as thieves with them. and they are all wealthy! you could pour 100 billion into tnis gap and it would all disappear into foreign bank accounts like smoke! BUT if the U.S. steps in and one orphan dies....we're the great capitalist demon, trying for someone's oil...
The past president of Sudan, Omar Hassan al-Bashir, had urged Sudanese men to take more than one wife to increase the population.
Speaking on Sudanese TV, President Bashir said since Sudan was the largest country in Africa and rich in resources, it needed more people to aid development.
President Bashir said he wants to aid development with an increased population
"We should achieve this aim by having many wives," he said.
The Sudanese should ignore international family planning policies, the president said in a speech to the ruling National Congress Party.
A complete moron.