South Tehran
MSF opened its project in South Tehran 2012 to address critical health care gaps faced by marginalized people in one of Tehran’s poorest urban areas. Our teams provide integrated, patient-centerd primary health care through a fixed clinic, mobile clinics, and outreach to vulnerable groups. Primary health care services include infectious and non-infectious disease care, sexual and reproductive health care, wound care, mental health and psychosocial support, hepatitis C screening and treatment, referrals to secondary care, social support, and health promotion.
Mashhad
MSF has been present in Mashhad — Iran's second largest city, located close to the border with Afghanistan —since 1996. Since 2018, we have run several mobile clinics offering medical and psychological consultations and screening for infectious diseases, such as hepatitis C, among vulnerable groups. In the Golshahr district, where most of Mashhad's Afghan refugees live, MSF teams provide counseling, social support, health education, and referrals to specialized health facilities.
Kerman
MSF is the only medical organization providing direct health services to Afghan refugees in Kerman province. Our primary health care centers aim to serve peripheral, neglected areas of Kerman city, which hosts around 200,000 Afghans. Since April 2024, we have been operating Vahdat clinic, just outside the city. We are now establishing a fixed clinic in Kerman in partnership with health authorities. Services will cover communicable and non-communicable diseases, sexual and reproductive health, mental health and psychosocial support, wound care, and screening for tuberculosis, HIV, and hepatitis B and C.
