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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.

Rose Poudjoum, midwife supervisor, monitors a patient and her baby at Mora district hospital, Far North region, Cameroon.

Cameroon

MSF is working in the Far North and Centre regions of Cameroon.
MSF emergency team responding to first ever dengue fever outbreak in Cape Verde. A team was sent to support the hospital in Sao Felipe, the main town of the island of Fogo. Others maintain the health centers of Praia, the capital located on the island of Santiago.
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Une équipe d'urgence MSF participe à la prise en charge d¿une épidémie de Dengue.Une équipe a été envoyé pour soutenir l'hôpital de Sao Felipe, la ville principale de l'île de Fogo. D'autres soutiennent les centres de santé de Praia, la capitale du pays située sur l'île de Santiago.

Cape Verde

MSF worked in Cape Verde following a dengue fever outbreak in 2009.
MSF team in Yongofongo, located 19 kilometers from Bangassou, Mbomou prefecture, March 2023.

Central African Republic

Learn about our medical humanitarian work in the Central African Republic, where years of intense violence have resulted in thousands being killed or wounded and millions being displaced, severely restricting access to medical care, food, water and shelter.
Mothers wait for their children to receive a medical consultation in the pediatric triage for children under 5 tent at the MSF clinic in the spontaneaous site for refugees in Adré, Ouaddaï region, Chad. Feb 2, 2024. ©Diana Zeyneb Alhindawi for Médecins Sans Frontières

Chad

Since 2015, thousands of people in the Lake Chad region have been forced to flee their homes as a result of violent clashes between armed groups and Chadian military forces.
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.
An MSF national staff is giving psychoeducation. An MSF mental health team is conducting community outreach activities: going from camp to camp in Longmenshan, Pengzhou, Sichuan province to provide psychoeducation to the villagers on topics such as (i) safety precautions before, during, and after an earthquake; (ii) psychological reactions following an earthquake and self-help techniques for managing these reactions/symptoms. Poster boards with relevant information are custom-made for distribution in camps and villages. Additionally, a psychologist is posted in a fixed clinic in front of a government and hospital and a basic medical treatment base. Another two psychologists form a mobile unit to visit IDP camps in the area to screen people for psychological difficulties and to offer on-site psychological support.

China

MSF first worked in China in 1989 and closed its projects in 2014.

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