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Guinea

Improving access to medical services within an already fragile health system.

Our work in Guinea

In Guinea, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) provides care for people living with HIV. In 2022, we also responded to outbreaks of Lassa fever and measles.

What's happening in Guinea?

Although Guinea has a relatively low HIV prevalence at about 1.4 percent, almost half of those living with HIV are not receiving antiretroviral treatment.

How we're helping in Guinea

In collaboration with the Ministry of Health, our teams manage eight health centers in the capital, Conakry, where we offer HIV testing and care, with a focus on prevention of mother-to-child transmission of the disease, as well as treatment for sexual violence and tuberculosis. We also manage a 31-bed facility at Donka hospital for people with advanced HIV.

In December, our community project in Kouroussa prefecture, in the east of the country, closed its doors. For over five years, we had worked with communities to develop activities to tackle malaria, malnutrition, and other diseases among children. In addition to working in health centers, MSF trained and equipped health workers and volunteers in the community, with the objective of improving detection, treatment, and referral systems for children with malaria and other diseases.

We also provided care in response to two outbreaks of Lassa fever and one outbreak of measles in 2022, while advocating for the World Health Organization and the Ministry of Health to initiate a vaccination campaign.

How we're helping

36,400

Malaria cases treated

17,600

People treated for measles

14,400

Patients on first-line ARV treatment in MSF-supported programs

*Data from MSF International Activity Report 2022

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