In 2020 documented incidents of violence against or obstruction of health care were much higher than in 2019, likely due to increasing intercommunal violence and ongoing conflict as well as the improvement of monitoring such incidents.

Health workers were injured or killed during these clashes between opposing forces, with Jonglei state experiencing the most attacks. Data

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