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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.
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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.

202002, Kristof Vadino, Bosnia, refugees, MSF treats patients, mobile clinic, MSF translator speaks Hindi, Urdu, Pashtoun, Farsi and English

Bosnia-Herzegovina

After a decade working with people affected by the Balkan wars, we ended our work in Bosnia-Herzegovina in 2001. In 2018, we returned to assist migrants and refugees escaping conflit in the Middle East, Asia and Africa, before ending activities in the country in 2021.
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.
MSF HP team in the Harmanli Refugee Center. Harmanli is the first arrival point in Bulgaria for refugees crossing through Turkey. Situated just 50 km from the triple border crossing with Greece and Turkey, it is the largest open Reception and Registration Center in Bulgaria, with a capacity of up to 1,710 individuals. The occupancy rate has surged by 300% since 2020 and MSF initiated a clinic within the Harmanli Reception Center in July 2023.

Bulgaria

MSF first worked in Bulgaria in 1981 and left the country in 2024.
Women collecting drinking water at an MSF water pump

Burkina Faso

MSF is providing people affected by insecurity with essential services.
Un infirmier fait un prélèvement sanguin sur une patiente dans les urgences de l’Hôpital du district de la province de Cibitoke au Burundi, Mars 2023.

Burundi

MSF is responding to malaria in five districts of Burundi.
Nurses of the Ministry of Health receive training in Sangker operational district, ahead of the relaunch of the hepatitis C nursing activity pilot, where nurses will lead the care of hepatitis C patients.
In addition to skills related to hepatitis C, new measures around infection prevention control regarding COVID-19 are taught.

Until the end of June 2020, just 141 cases were confirmed in Cambodia, and a quarter of them originates from a European tourist group in March. The authorities were quick to implement thorough contact tracing and asked our teams to help with this. We’ve also contributed to the new IPC and clinical guidelines for Cambodia and developed training units. Subsequently, about 300 staff members of hospitals run by the Ministry of health received training. Given the difficulty of importing medical equipment, the team is now trying innovative approaches to develop oxygen ventilation systems by using commercially available diving masks and 3D-printing the necessary connectors in the country in anticipation of an outbreak of COVID-19 in Cambodia.

Cambodia

We handed over our projects in Cambodia in 2021.

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