TANZANIA

Tanzania

Médecins Sans Frontières ran a range of projects in Tanzania in 2024, providing healthcare to Burundian refugees and host communities, responding to disease outbreaks, and improving mother and child health services.

When violence broke out in Burundi in 2015, thousands of people fled over the border into Tanzania and sought refuge in Nduta camp. Despite the authorities’ plans for the camp’s closure, we continued to deliver vital medical services to both the refugees and the local community in 2024, including malaria prevention activities, such as indoor residual spraying campaigns.

MSF IN TANZANIA IN 2024 Map of the areas MSF worked in 2024
Country map for the IAR 2024.

When violence broke out in Burundi in 2015, thousands of people fled over the border into Tanzania and sought refuge in Nduta camp. Despite the authorities’ plans for the camp’s closure, we continued to deliver vital medical services to both the refugees and the local community in 2024, including malaria prevention activities, such as indoor residual spraying campaigns.

Elsewhere in the country, we supported the Ministry of Health’s responses to disease outbreaks, including three cholera responses launched in Lindi and Simiyu regions. In Kilwa district, our teams set up cholera treatment centres (CTCs) and supported the existing CTC in Itilima district.  As well as improving the quality of care and the local capacity for early detection and surveillance, we referred suspected cholera cases to CTCs and oral rehydration points, strengthened community engagement and awareness, and helped with patient contact tracing.

During 2024, we also continued to run our project aimed at enhancing access to basic and specialised healthcare services, particularly for mothers and children, through seven public health facilities in Liwale, a southern region located near the border with Mozambique. To improve the referral network, particularly for patients living in remote and underserved areas, we provided two additional ambulances.
 

 
Marburg haemorrhagic fever outbreak
Marburg hemorrhagic fever

Tanzania: MSF welcomes the announcement of the end of the Marburg epidemic in Kagera

Article 14 Mar 2025
 
At the Marburg treatment unit, two staff of the Ministry of Health moving a basin of used gum boots to be disinfected in the laundry, a semi-permanent facility built by MSF to improve the infection prevention and control during this Marburg outbreak.
Marburg hemorrhagic fever

Seven Questions about Marburg virus Disease –Tanzania 2025

Article 5 Mar 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
 
Community Health Workes delivering health messages to the women attending clinic at Liwale District Hospital.
Access to Healthcare

Tanzania: How a home from home became a lifesaver for expectant mothers in Liwale district

Article 19 Nov 2024
 
Health promoter, Bayubahe Jerome, educates mothers on the benefits of breastfeeding at Nduta Camp Clinic.
Maternal Health

Tanzania: Enhancing Maternal and Neonatal Health Services to save lives in Nduta Camp

Article 3 Sep 2024
 
Dr. Jacky
Access to Healthcare

A Doctor's dream realised: Serving refugees in Nduta camp

Article 12 Jul 2024