As lead agency in primary health care, UNICEF provides technical inputs, essential
drugs, midwifery kits, malaria treatments, long lasting insecticide treated nets and
training/coordination for over 184 fixed health facilities and approximately 36 mobile
teams. These facilities which are approximately three quarters of the total primary health
care facilities operating in Darfur reach around 2 million persons.
• This year alone, seven successive polio National Immunization Days have been carried
out in the three Darfur States reaching 1.4 million under five children (98% coverage).
This intensification of polio immunization has led to the interruption of wild polio virus
transmission in Darfur and prevented the occurrence of new polio cases in 2005.