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A boat taking MSF staff to the rural area of Portel travels through a river in the Brazilian Northern state of Pará. MSF is supporting local authorities in order to improve healthcare access to the town’s population. Portel has dealt historically with a lack of health professionals and facilities, particularly in hard-to-reach remote areas which are home to vulnerable river dweller communities.

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A boat taking MSF staff to the rural area of Portel travels through a river in the northern state of Pará. Brazil, November 2023.
© Diego Klein/MSF
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In more than 75 countries, Médecins Sans Frontières provides medical humanitarian assistance to save lives and ease the suffering of people in crisis situations. Find out more about our actions in every country below.

Wide shot of MSF workers standing by a barbed wire fence during a medical consultation of the MSF mobile clinic in Horgos 2 border crossing area in Serbia. MSF is present in Serbia since 2014 providing medical care to migrants in transit through the Balkan route. In 2022 MSF is operational in informal settlements at the Serbian-Hungarian and Serbian-Romanian borders, with two mobile clinics providing primary health care, psycho-social support and health promotion activities.

Serbia

Since 2014, we have provided medical and psychological assistance channels for asylum seekers, refugees and migrants in Serbia.
MSF health promoter, Beatrice Turay, standing in front of community members in Rogbereka village, Tonkolili district, holding a vaccination card for children under the age of five and discussing about the importance of vaccination, the various vaccines available for children and how mothers and caregivers can access them.

Sierra Leone

In Sierra Leone, we work to reduce high maternal and child mortality rates.
Thousands of people are entering Slovenia daily on different spots along the border to Croatia. While some of them are gathering in overcrowded transit centres, others have to spend the night outdoors on the fields without any assistance. Doctors without Borders (MSF) is currently supporting the Slovenian Ministry of Health in the transit camp of Brezice and is extending its humanitarian support after assessing the situation in the area.

Slovenia

In 2015, MSF supported the Slovenian Ministry of Health at the Brežice transit centre on the border with Croatia, providing around-the-clock medical assistance to migrants and refugees entering the country along the Balkan route.
In early April 2014, floods in Honiara swept away riverside communities, brought down bridges and destroyed roads. Twenty-three people died, according to official sources.

Solomon Islands

MSF provided medical care in the Solomon Islands following devastating floods in 2014.
Dr. Ahmed Abass, MSF Baidoa Medical Team Lead examines a child in the paediatric general ward of the MSF supported Bay Regional Hospital in Baidoa, Somalia.

Somalia

Four years after a series of violent attacks on our staff forced us to withdraw from Somalia, we started providing much needed medical care again in May 2017.
The composition of the cholera hygiene kits MSF donated to families in the community of Kanana in Hammankskraal, South Africa, is derived from a study MSF conducted with London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, which showed that these items can bend the curve of a cholera outbreak when given to patients who are discharged.

South Africa

South Africa has the largest HIV patient cohort in the world and is helping to lead the way in gaining access to new treatments for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB).

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The place names and boundaries used in this report do not reflect any position by MSF on their legal status.