DATE: 16 November, 2025
Pyramid Hotel, Juba, South Sudan.
- Resolution on Safe Motherhood and Reduction of Maternal Mortality
South Sudan current Maternal Mortality Rate stand at 692, law health funding, poor health infrastructure, poor referral system, bleeding after birth (60%), unsafe abortion (38%) and leadership issues among others were outlined to be the causes
AGOSS recommends to:
- Strengthen surveillance and reporting of maternal deaths through the national Maternal and Perinatal Death Surveillance and Response (MPDSR) system.
- Train healthcare workers on early recognition and timely referral of obstetric emergencies.
- Strengthen Boma Health Initiative to support timely referral from the community to health facilities, and community maternal health awareness campaigns.
- Promote respectful maternity care (RMC) practices in all health facilities.
- Call upon the national government to pyritize funding the health in South Sudan, by increasing health budget to 15% per the Abuja Health declaration.
- Improve abortion care services including reform of laws
- Call upon the Council of Ministers and the Transitional National Transition Assembly to enact the following bills
- Midwives and Nurses Council Bill
- Allied Health Professional Bill
- Burden of Infertility in South Sudan
Male infertility cases are in increase in South Sudan, the data at hand on sperm analysis in Juba shows that 84% of semen’s of about 2,287 cases were abnormal, showing how male infertility factor is becoming a public health concern in South Sudan. The conference recommends establishment of fertility services in the main public health facilities across South Sudan, including JTH, WTH, KWH, MTH
- Menopause Awareness
The conference observed that Menopause is among the neglected health concerns in South Sudan
The conference recommends:
- To raise awareness on menopause related problems among communities.
- Health care providers, especially junior medical doctors are advised to consider menopause as one of the differential diagnoses for cases that presents with menopausal like symptoms.
4. Resolution on Reproductive Health, Family Planning and Adolescent Health
The conference acknowledge that family Planning is a human and a woman basic right, despite that, men still have a control and determinant role for their wives to use family planning in South Sudan.
AGOSS resolves to:
- Unconditionally empowered to voluntary access family planning services
- Enhance public awareness on the importance of voluntary family planning services.
- Advocate for adolescent-friendly sexual and reproductive health services across the country.
- Work with partners to reduce teenage pregnancy and its complications.
- Fistula burden
Obstetrics Fistula cases are in rise in South Sudan, caused by high home deliveries (80%) and lack of skilled birth attendance. The conference call for action to increase awareness on the importance of facility deliveries, train fistula surgeons, treatment and rehabilitation services.
- Resolution on Partnerships and Stakeholder Collaboration
AGOSS commits to:
- Strengthen partnerships with the Ministry of Health, UN agencies, NGOs, universities, and other professional bodies.
- Engage the private sector to support scientific innovation, capacity building, and reproductive health interventions.
- Formalize Memoranda of Understanding (MoUs) with key partners to sustain long-term collaborations.
7. Resolution on Gender, Youth Empowerment and Women’s Health Leadership
The conference noticed alarming data affecting gender and youth including child marriage (52%), adolescents birth 158 per 1,000 adolescents. South Sudan is a second country with high GBV cases in the region. GBV Bill is still hanging and not enacted.
The conference resolves to:
- Call upon the Ministry of Justice and Constitutional Affairs, Council of Ministers and the Revitalized Transitional National Transition Assembly to enact GBV bill
- Empower women to have right to accessing and deciding on their health, including right to consent for surgical operations such as live saving C/S and access to contraceptives.
- Create a platform for youth engagement in scientific research and community mobilization on SRHR issues.
- Work with the Office of the Vice President in charge of Gender and Youth Cluster to advance national gender agenda.
- Resolution on Capacity Building and Postgraduate Medical Education
AGOSS commits to:
Continue supporting the establishment and strengthening of obstetrics and gynecology postgraduate programs in the country in collaboration with CPS, University of Juba, ECSACOG and other institutions who are will to train.
9. Resolution on Research, Data Quality and Scientific Advancement
The conference resolves to:
- Increase the days for the annual scientific conference from two to three days
- Promote high-quality clinical and public health research among its members.
- Establish an annual AGOSS Research Grant to support young scientists and postgraduate trainees.
- Publish conference abstracts and proceedings to enhance local scientific visibility.