Access to Health care

Access to healthcare

Not everything strikes without warning; some disasters are slow. They unfold over decades as a disease affects a population, instability undermines the health system or people are actively excluded from receiving healthcare.

After a rapid emergency subsides people can also find it difficult to access healthcare as the area struggles to recover, the government is overwhelmed by the scale of the problems or new health problems are sparked, such as cholera outbreaks when clean water supplies are disrupted. In these cases, MSF works to give people access to health care and to tackle diseases that need long-term treatment, such as HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and neglected tropical diseases like sleeping sickness.

 
Solarization of Zurmi General Hospital
Nigeria

Harnessing Solar Power: Patient care improved as hospital switches to renewable energy in northern Nigeria

Article 25 Apr 2025
 
MSF Hospital in Ulang
Conflict in Sudan

Hospitals and Healthcare Workers Must Be Protected Amid Escalating Violence in Upper Nile State

Article 11 Apr 2025
 
Tanzania: MSF team supports response to outbreak of Marburg virus diseas
Ebola and Marburg

Tanzania: MSF team supports response to outbreak of Marburg virus disease

Article 3 Feb 2025
 
MSF teams responding to Cyclone Chido in Mozambique
Natural disasters

Mozambique: MSF improves people’s access to healthcare after cyclone Chido

Article 24 Dec 2024
 
People collect water from a newly constructed borehole in Zamlet village in Rubkona County of Unity State.
Cholera

MSF calls for urgent action as cholera outbreak escalates across South Sudan’s neglected camps

Article 24 Dec 2024
 
Zamzam Camp Under Renewed Shelling Amid escalating violence in North Darfur
Conflict in Sudan

Zamzam Camp under renewed shelling amid escalating violence in North Darfur

Article 23 Dec 2024