MSF, Doctors Without Borders, MSF activities in Cameroon

Cameroon

Doctors Without Borders (MSF) provides emergency surgery for patients with violence-related injuries in Cameroon’s volatile Far North region. During 2024, we also responded to peaks in malaria and malnutrition, and severe flooding.

The ongoing conflict in the Lake Chad Basin continues to impact people in northern Cameroon, with many injured in repeated incursions by non-state armed groups and outbreaks of intercommunal violence.

In 2024, we strengthened our support for emergency surgery at Mora District hospital by rehabilitating the operating theatre.

Our activities in 2024 in Cameroon

 Data and information from the International Activity Report 2024.

MSF IN CAMEROON IN 2024 In 2024, Doctors Without Borders (MSF) is working in the Far North and Centre regions of Cameroon. Our teams work through the volatile situation in the Far North to assist the health authorities with treating malaria.
MSF, Doctors Without Borders, MSF activities in Cameroon

In Far North, we also focus on supporting community healthcare activities in areas where insecurity prevents people from accessing medical facilities. In these areas, we have trained community health workers to treat uncomplicated malaria and diarrhoea cases, screen children for severe acute malnutrition, and refer patients requiring specialist care to hospitals.

In response to the floods in Far North, which affected more than 365,000 people, we sent teams to Kai-Kai and Yagoua, where they conducted outpatient consultations, as well as screening and treatment for severe acute malnutrition. We also supported the routine vaccination programme, and organised awareness-raising campaigns to help prevent malaria and diarrhoeal diseases.

In the capital, Yaoundé, in Centre region, we launched a sustainable cholera prevention project to support the national plan to eradicate the disease. Our teams are working with the Ministry of Health to improve access to drinking water and sanitation services, and raise community awareness of preventive measures.

IN 2024

 
Malaria

Tens of thousands of Cameroonians seek refuge in southern Nigeria

Latest News 28 Dec 2018
 
HIV/Aids

MSF: HIV response will not succeed in West and Central Africa if key barriers remain unaddressed

Press Release 3 Jul 2017
 
Malaria

Lake Chad: trapped in deadly violence

Latest News 30 Mar 2016