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IWD Cameroon: Women tracing their paths through 40 years of intervention

Cameroon

Cameroon is facing multiple and overlapping crises, including recurrent epidemics, malnutrition due to food insecurity, displacement, and conflict.

Currently, our teams run medical humanitarian projects in the Far North, providing services such as medical care, surgical care, maternal and obstetric care, and psychological care. 

We also provide emergency response to epidemics, such as cholera and measles. In the Far North, Littoral, Centre and South-West regions, we have recently provided support to the Ministry of Health to respond to the cholera outbreak. 

Our medical activities in the North-West region were suspended in December 2020 by the authorities, and in the South-West, we decided to temporarily suspend activities after the arrest of four of our colleagues in December 2021 during an ambulance referral. We are in continued dialogue with the authorities to restart medical assistance in other regions.
 

Our activities in 2023 in Cameroon

Data and information from the International Activity Report 2023.

MSF in Cameroon in 2023 In Cameroon, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) supported local authorities with medical and nutritional care, and responses to health emergencies and malaria outbreaks in Far North and Centre regions during 2023.
Cameroon IAR map 2023

The security situation in Far North, where our regular project is located, continues to be volatile, with repeated clashes between state and non-state armed groups and outbreaks of intercommunal violence.

MSF teams support local health centres by providing general healthcare and donating medical supplies. In Mora, we built a new surgical unit in the hospital to improve the provision of emergency surgical care. During the rainy season in Kousseri, and the ensuing peak in malaria cases, our teams helped the regional hospital to scale up treatment.

We also supported the national response to a cholera outbreak in Centre region, which affected nine health districts. As well as treating patients, we improved water, sanitation and hygiene facilities, and conducted community awareness-raising activities and epidemiological surveillance.

In 2023, we made the decision to close our liaison office in Bamenda, Northwest region. Since the authorities ordered us to suspend activities in December 2020, we had been unable to provide much-needed support to people affected by violence and displacement. Conflict has been raging in Northwest and Southwest regions since 2016.

 

in 2023
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