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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.

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.
A simple tent is used a consultation room. The patients have to wait outside. The war between Ethiopia and Eritrea made estimated 300.000 people to IDPs, a lot of them where in small camps in the mountains between Senafe and Adi Kai. A lack of clean water and big needs regarding Non Food Items were the biggest problems. So an MSF Team with a doctor or a nurse and a logistician went together with two translators, two donkey drivers and 4 donkeys in the mountains to visit 6 different IDP-camps and returned after 10 days.

Eritrea

MSF opened its first mission in Eritrea in April 2000, in response to the growing risk of hunger and renewed conflict between Eritrea and its southern neighbor and former ally, Ethiopia.
MSF mobile clinic visits patient homes delivering drug refills and food support

Eswatini

MSF is working with communities to provide comprehensive sexual and reproductive healthcare.
MSF provides clean water to Aby Aday IDP camp in Sheraro, Tigray. MSF re-started activities in Tigray in November 2022. Water and sanitation activities are a key priority to prevent the spreading of water borne diseases. In Sheraro, MSF team are trucking up to 1.4 million litres of water to serve six IDP camps every day.

Ethiopia

In Ethiopia, we fill gaps in healthcare and respond to emergencies such as cholera and measles outbreaks.
MSF apporte un soutien médical, psychologique et social aux mineurs non accompagnés en transit à Calais.

France

In Paris, northern France, and at the borders with Italy and Spain, migrants and refugees encounter policies and practices aimed at preventing them from settling or claiming their rights.
Georgia. 2017. Abastumani TB Hospital. MSF team and local nurses discussing TB patients.

Georgia

MSF began working in Georgia in 1993 to deliver healthcare to people affected by internal displacement and conflict, before providing treatment to people with 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.