Africa

 
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Africa

Central African Republic

Despite ongoing insecurity, MSF continues to run programmes focused on maternal and child health and responding to conflict, displacement and disease outbreaks in the Central African Republic (CAR).
 
Doctors Without Borders emergency response team carrying out measles vaccinations for children in Beboto in Chad.
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Chad

In Chad, our teams focused on tackling the measles outbreak that had been raging across the country since 2018 and responding to other health challenges such as malaria and malnutrition.
 
Surgery team performing a caesarean section to deliver a patients' baby. Côte d'Ivoire, March 2017.
Africa

Côte d'Ivoire

The political and military crises of 2002-2010 have taken a severe toll on the Ivorian health system: according to the World Health Organization, it is one of the weakest in Africa, with only one medical doctor and five midwives per 10,000 inhabitants.
 
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Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)

We respond to emergencies and assist people fleeing violence and armed conflict. In 2019 and 2020, we responded to the country's biggest-ever Ebola outbreak, in Ituri and North Kivu provinces.
 
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Eswatini (formerly Swaziland)

In Eswatini, the COVID-19 pandemic severely affected the lives of patients with HIV, tuberculosis (TB), and non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in 2020.
 
MSF. Nothern Tigray, Ethiopia
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Ethiopia

In Ethiopia, Doctors Without Borders (MSF) responds to emergencies and fills gaps in healthcare for internally displaced people and refugees. From November 2020, we assisted people affected by fighting in the Tigray region.