Over 16 months, we partnered with local non-governmental organisations in the Yau Tsim Mong and Sham Shui Po districts to deliver patient-centred care, increasing the health literacy of people experiencing homelessness and connecting them to health services. The project concluded in December 2024.

Our teams provided basic health screening, health promotion sessions, and psychosocial support. We also worked on capacity building with local partners to ensure continuity of care for people in the programme after December 2024.

Before this most recent project, MSF teams had responded to outbreaks of coronaviruses in Hong Kong, notably SARS in 2003 and COVID-19 in 2020. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, MSF teams provided face-to-face and virtual health promotion sessions with vulnerable people less likely to be able to access information, such as refugees, and those on the front line, such as street cleaners.

We also created a website to help people manage their stress and worry, which included tips and tools on how to cope.

MSF medical teams and outreach workers had also assisted people experiencing homelessness, by providing free medical consultations, and arranging temporary shelter and distributing food and water where needed.