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MSF teams explaining prevention and infection control measures to local health workers in Cochabamba (maybe you can add the specific district health structure). Since the beginning of MSF's intervention in the country, the team has organized more than 800 awareness sessions on COVID-19, so that people are sensitized, oriented and have access to correct information about the disease.

Bolivia

MSF worked in Bolivia from 2019 to 2021, providing sexual reproductive healthcare and support in the fight against COVID-19. At the end of 2021 we handed over our activities to the Ministry of Health.
About 400 people now live in this shelter at the Paulo Freire Municipal School. The place has been receiving people from many neighborhoods of Canoas. It’s the state’s third most populous city, with 350 thousand inhabitants, and 180 thousand of them had to leave their homes. The space previously used by students is now occupied by whole families. And there are many of them, housed in makeshift accommodations after torrential rains flooded whole cities and left hundreds of thousands of people without shelter in May 2024. A team of Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF), with doctors, nurses, psychologists and health promoters, offer medical and mental health assistance to the people in the shelter.

Brazil

Learn about MSF's activities in northern Brazil, where we are working to improve medical care for Venezuelan migrants and asylum seekers, as well as local communities.
After an 8.8-magnitude earthquake struck central Chile, the MSF teams that have travelled through the affected areas are focusing their interventions on the most urgent needs: supporting health structures that are caring for large numbers of patients, re-establishing primary health care services, distributing basic necessities, and offering mental health assistance to the affected population.
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MSF teams have distributed medical supplies to hospitals in the heavily impacted regions of Maule and Bío Bío. They have also carried out several mobile clinics, particularly in the coastal areas of Maule, which was hit by huge waves caused by the earthquake, and in the inland region of Curepto.

Chile

MSF worked in Chile following the earthquake that struck the country in February 2010.
MSF's project in Alto Baudó, Chocó, has an important component of community engagement with Afro-descendant and indigenous communities.

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El proyecto de MSF en Alto Baudó, Chocó, tiene un pilar fundamental de involucramiento comunitario con comunidades afrodescendientes e indígenas.

Colombia

As a result of the peace process, there has been in a decrease in the number of clashes between armed groups, but civilians continue to be caught up in violence as criminal organisations fight for control of territory.
MSF teams assisting migrants in Costa Rica

Costa Rica

MSF worked with people on the move in Costa Rica in 2024.
HAVANA, CUBA, LATIN AMERICA,30.03.96. Cuban landscape.

Cuba

MSF began work in Cuba in 1993 and left in 2000.
Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) staff members Cristina Buixeres and Fredy Haro  distribute hygiene and cooking kits for 52 families in the Alto del Portete shelter in Muisne, Ecuador

Ecuador

MSF first worked in Ecuador in 1996; after providing mental health support following two earthquakes in 2016, MSF teams supported the COVID-19 response in 2020.
2020. One of MSF's pre-hospital teams attends to a traffic accident on a main street in the municipality of Soyapango. Since 2018, MSF has provided 24/7 medical emergency care free of charge and confidentially for the entire municipality of Soyapango. In 2019, it was expanded to the municipality of Ilopango.

El Salvador

MSF has worked in El Salvador to provide healthcare to communities affected by growing violence and insecurity and to respond to outbreaks such as COVID-19.
To identify chronic kidney disease of non-traditional origin (CKDnt), also called as Mesoamerican endemic Nephropathy (MeN), MSF provides screening (rapid and laboratory tests), diagnostics and direct medical attention to the population in the communities and health centers in the municipalities of La Gomera, La Democracia and Sipacate. The services are aimed at people exposed to risk factors, such as sugar cane workers and populations living near the plantations.

Guatemala

MSF closed our project for migrants in June 2025, after nearly four years of providing care to people on the move.
Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Monday, June 21, 2022.
   After being treated and stabilized by the MSF team in Turgeau, these patients, victims of a road accident, were discharged from the hospital and returned home.
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Haiti

Political instability, an earthquake in August 2021, a fuel crisis and chronic violence have pushed the healthcare system in Haiti to its limits as needs are on the rise.
Monument to the Mother Park is a small park located in Danlí, which in recent weeks has become an improvised refuge for migrants.

Honduras

Honduras has experienced years of political, economic and social instability, and has one of the highest rates of violence in the world. This has great medical, psychological and social consequences for people.
MSF medical team and District Medical Officer, Dr. Witter, inspect medical supplies and drugs brought to the provincial Maroon clinic.  

From left to right. Accident and Emergency nurse, Kirsty Robertson, District Medical Officer, Dr. Witter and Infectious disease specialist, Dr. Virginia Moneti.

Jamaica

An MSF team arrived in Jamaica following hurricane Melissa in October 2025.