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.

 
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
 
Renk - A crowd of returnees and refugees waits in line  to receive care from the MSF mobile clinic team at Jerbana
Refugees, migration and displacement

South Sudan receives thousands of displaced and injured people fleeing intensified war in Sudan

Article 20 Dec 2024
 
 Living conditions of refugees and host communities in Dadaab
Access to healthcare

A Year in Pictures 2024

Article 13 Dec 2024
 
Malaria patients admitted in Nejo General Hospital Malaria Ward. MSF opened dedicated malaria wards at Nejo General Hospital West Wollega and Nekemte Specialized Hospital in East Wollega. Ethiopia 2024.
Malaria

Ethiopia: MSF responds to unprecedented surge in malaria

Article 28 Nov 2024