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.

 
IDPs in Katasomwa
Access to Healthcare

South Kivu: An endless flight

Crisis Update 28 Jan 2021
 
2018 MSF team examines a snakebite wound on a patient’s foot in Abdurafi, Ethiopia.
Access to Healthcare

No more neglected diseases, no more neglected patients

Press Release 28 Jan 2021
 
About 8,000 internally displaced persons (IDPs) are now living in dire conditions in makeshift camps
Access to Healthcare

Extremely precarious living conditions for the displaced people of Bouar, Central African Republic

Crisis Update 26 Jan 2021
 
Access to Healthcare

Yemen: “These sanctions have to make clear that they do not apply to humanitarian aid”

Crisis Update 21 Jan 2021
 
MSF team set-up a mobile clinic in Riang, Jonglei state.
Access to Healthcare

MSF emergency team responds to worrying health needs in Riang, South Sudan, with high rates of malaria

Press Release 19 Jan 2021
 
Access to Healthcare

Mali: A patient dies after an MSF ambulance is violently detained

Press Release 8 Jan 2021