Still life with sorghum,
spoons, and a recycled
amoxicillin container with
Nuer cow millk.

The Sudan TB Project has been at home under trees and in mud huts. A more permanent roof over our clinic, with cleaner water and better sanitation, will add to the stability and sense of permanence in the area. It will provide a huge morale and health boost for the community!! Another example of the “peace dividend.”

While the Alaska Sudan Medical Project works on new infrastructure, which we’ll share, we still must cover the operational costs. We’ll have to pick up at least some of the salaries of the COSV national staff or lose them. COSV’s TB staff has remained amazingly loyal, despite their pay being frequently delayed – sometimes for months. (Special thanks to those of you who sent checks to cover salaries and training courses!). Medications mostly come from a non-proit pharmaceutical company -- at 5% of what they would cost in the US. The donation of the new satellite dish will bring the Internet to Fangak, with all the communication and educational possibilities that implies.

This mom walked several hours
after giving birth because her
placenta would not come out.
When Jill reached in, the squirming
“placenta” turned out to be
a second twin!

We are still in the process of changing our name from “Sudan TB Project” to “Sudan Medical Relief.” This is designed to more accurately relect our unavoidably wider scope of practice. In addition to TB, we have always kept our old focus on kala azar. And of course we couldn’t ignore malaria, trachoma, emergency obstetrics, and whatever other emergencies and illnesses that showed up for which no other health care was available. We have to do what we can. We hope another NGO will come in and take COSVs place as a primary care provider. Their role was frustratingly sporadic and unreliable, but their absence leaves a big hole.

As always, your contributions are fully tax-deductible through Crosscurrents International Institute. Donations can now be made online at this web site as follows -

Click here to go to the donations page.

If you use checks please make them payable to CCI – Sudan Medical Relief.

Many thanks to you— advisors, cheerleaders, donors, fundraisers, and loyal friends.

Gretchen Stone