Mali
About 200 000 deaths from malaria each year could be averted if African governments follow new World Health Organisation (WHO) guidelines, soon to be released, and switch from the far less effective medication quinine to artesunate, according to Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF).
International Activity Report, 2007
A combination of factors makes access to healthcare difficult for Malians, including cost, the distance people live from health centres and, in the northern part of the country, the nomadic lifestyle. Malaria is a leading cause of death in children under five years old, and the maternal mortality rate is high.
Throughout 2009, MSF provided general healthcare, treatment for malaria and obstetric fistulas and nutritional support to children.
Malaria
Teams work in the Kangaba region in southern Mali, where malaria is most prevalent. MSF supports 11 health centres and mobile teams, including 66 ‘malaria village workers’. These people are trained to detect and treat...
09 May 2012
Malians refugees in Burkina Faso
29 February 2012
Explo mission: nutritional survey in Mauritania among the nomadic population. After the assesment, MSF opened a TFC in Nema, Hodh El Charqui province, near the border with Mali.
24 February 2012
Victims are mostly women and children; MSF is calling on all parties to the conflict to spare civilians
Bamako/Paris, 23 February 2012 – Yesterday afternoon, 22 February, a camp of Tuareg civilians was targeted in an airstrike by the Malian army in the north of the country.
Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors without Borders (MSF) teams and the Malian Ministry of Health in the area treated 11 injured people. Those hurt were almost exclusively women and children, including a young girl who died from her injuries.
The camp, Ag Haross Kayone, is located about 20km from Kidal. Around 20 families from the city were living there, having fled conflict between the Malian army and the MNLA, a Tuaregrebel...
31 March 2011
Reducing Malaria in Mali
25 April 2010
“We help people to help themselves”"Do you know who I am?”
“You work for Médecins Sans Frontières.”
“And what does Médecins Sans Frontières do in Mali?”
“You help treat diseases like Malaria”.
“We treat malaria, that’s right. And that is exactly what I have come to talk to you about today”.
Madinata Maiga is talking to eighth and ninth graders in the school of Kangaba, a town in the South of Mali. The young woman is a health promoter for Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF) She visits villages, schools, and health centres in the region of Kangaba and talks to people...
