This project carries on the previous COSV experience in this area, which has been lasting since 1994 through the implementation of several Health programmes. By the management of one PHC Centre and 7 PHC Units, more than 80.000 persons are helped with the supply of basic health services, mother and child health services, nutritional assistance for malnourished children and interventions in water and environmental hygiene sectors. In this project, the COSV area of intervention is wider and the needs of other populations of the area are met, with 30.000 new beneficiaries. The steady presence of expatriate personnel, that plays a fundamental role in training the Sudanese local staff, and the management of services supplementary to those normally provided for by a basic health project (as the opening of a analysis laboratory), permit to give rehabilitation/development characteristics to this project, which is implemented in a region under "chronic emergency" since decades.