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MSF focuses on supporting vulnerable communities affected by the intensified conflict in recent years, and providing care to COVID-19 patients.

Our work in Colombia

Despite the peace process, a resurgence in violence has led to people in Colombia becoming displaced or traumatized. We provide mental health care to people who are displaced by the armed clashes, and those traumatized by the ongoing violence by the armed groups that have arisen in the post-conflict situation.

Violence in Nariño, Colombia

What's happening in Colombia?

MSF teams provide mental health care to people who are displaced by the armed clashes, and those traumatized by the ongoing violence by the armed groups that have arisen in the post-conflict situation.

Teams also provide comprehensive care for victims of sexual violence, as well as safe abortion care to women who request it.

We also provide assistance to refugees and migrants from Venezuela, and in 2020, we responded to the COVID-19 pandemic.

MSF in Nariño

How we're helping in Colombia

During 2020, MSF expanded activities to meet the challenges of COVID-19 and assist communities caught up in clashes between armed groups vying for territory.

In Nariño department, our emergency response team scaled up their support to local hospitals in the port city of Tumaco, with direct care for symptomatic patients, training in infection prevention and control, the creation of staff and patient flow routes, and donations. Mobile teams were sent to work in rural communities cut off from health services by the constant presence of armed groups.

Even in the city, our teams experienced constant security threats, with shootings between rival gangs restricting our community outreach work and incursions of armed groups into a hospital interrupting our treatment of critically ill COVID-19 patients in the intensive care unit.

In the border areas of Norte de Santander, Arauca, and La Guajira, our teams continued providing general and mental health care to Venezuelan migrants. Our activities in La Guajira ended in August, and those in Arauca were handed over to Première Urgence Internationale as part of the MSF strategy to assist other organizations to establish their presence in conflict areas of the country.

We also closed our mental health program in Buenaventura, Valle de Cauca, where since 2015 teams had been offering psychological support to victims of violence. The project’s innovative call center and psychosocial activities were successfully handed over to the local health authorities.

In June, as part of our COVID-19 response, a mobile team was formed to support small hospitals in Atlántico, a coastal department that was the epicenter of the outbreak at the time. Support included training in infection prevention and control and mental health care for staff.

Towards the end of the year, we carried out an emergency response to a category 5 hurricane that flattened Providencia, a small Caribbean island hundreds of kilometers off the coast.

Despite huge logistical challenges, we quickly sent a team to deliver medical and mental health support to the traumatized community.

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How we're helping in 2020

33,900

Outpatient consultations

11,400

Consultations for contraceptive services

6,300

Individual mental health consultations

290

Women received safe abortion care

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