*Data from MSF International Activity Report 2023
Cameroon 2020 © Patrick Meinhardt
Cameroon
Continuing to assist displaced people, refugees, and vulnerable host communities in areas affected by conflict and violence in Cameroon.
Update
The women leaders in Cameroon fighting for maternal health
Since 2023, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has been working with influential local women in Cameroon's Far North region, where insecurity and local practices can severely affect access to critical health care. As key intermediaries, women known as matrons and mother leaders are fighting against malnutrition and infant mortality, saving lives amid an alarming humanitarian crisis.
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Our work in Cameroon
In Cameroon, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) supports local authorities with medical and nutritional care and responses to health emergencies including malaria outbreaks in its Far North and Center regions in 2023.
What's happening in Cameroon?
Cameroon faces multiple and overlapping crises, including recurrent epidemics, malnutrition due to food insecurity, displacement, and conflict. The security situation remains volatile in the Far North region, where our regular project is located, with repeated clashes between state and non-state armed groups and outbreaks of intercommunal violence.
How we're helping in Cameroon
MSF teams support local health centers by providing general health care and donating medical supplies.
In Mora, we built a new surgical unit in the hospital to improve the provision of emergency surgical care. During the rainy season in Kousseri, and the ensuing peak in malaria cases, our teams helped the regional hospital to scale up treatment. We also supported the national response to a cholera outbreak that affected nine health districts in the Center region. As well as treating patients, we improved water, sanitation, and hygiene facilities and conducted community awareness-raising activities and epidemiological surveillance.
In 2023, we made the decision to close our liaison office in Bamenda, Northwest region. Since the authorities ordered us to suspend activities in December 2020, we had been unable to provide much-needed support to people affected by violence and displacement. Conflict has been raging in Northwest and Southwest regions since 2016.
How we're helping
96,200
Outpatient consultations
1,800
People treated for cholera
21,500
Malaria cases treated
510
Surgical interventions
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