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We closed our projects in Albania in 2000.

In Albania, MSF has provided assistance to refugees and the local health system.

MSF first worked in Albania in 1981. Prior to the war in Kosovo, we had been distributing medical supplies across the country and assisting the Ministry of Health in developing a long-term care programme in the hospital in Fier, southern Albania.  
 
As people fleeing the Kosovo war began to enter Albania in 1999, MSF began providing assistance to refugees in camps, reception centres, hospitals, health posts and to people in remote villages throughout the country. This included providing medical, water and sanitation assistance.
 

 
Albania

Albania starts to rebuild after the Kosovar crisis

Project Update 8 Aug 1999
 
Kosovo

MSF says civilian control of refugee resettlement in Kosovo is crucial

Press Release 4 Jun 1999
 
Albania

Assistance and protection to Kosovo refugees in Albania

Project Update 18 May 1999
 
Albania

Relocation of refugees in Kukes

Press Release 11 May 1999
 
Kosovo

MSF Camp in Kukes - three days running

Project Update 22 Apr 1999
 
Kosovo

MSF in Albania and Macedonia

Project Update 21 Apr 1999