In 2025, MSF teams in the north of the Ivory Coast responded to the needs of refugees displaced by recurrent violence in neighboring Burkina Faso and Mali. While some were hosted by local families, many were living in precarious conditions with limited access to basic services, including health care.
In close collaboration with the Ministry of Health and partners, MSF began a coordinated and comprehensive response to the cholera outbreak declared in the capital, Abidjan, in June 2025. We established and fully equipped three cholera treatment units in the Port-Bouët–Vridi and Yopougon Est districts.
Ivory Coast 2017 © Jean-Christophe Nougaret/MSF
Ivory Coast
Building preventative capacity in one of the weakest health systems in Africa
Our work in Ivory Coast
In Ivory Coast, Doctors Without Borders/ Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) supports refugees, collaborates on preventive vaccination campaigns, runs a project for people with epilepsy, and responds to outbreaks, including a cholera outbreak in the country’s largest city in 2025.
How we're helping in Ivory Coast
Our teams in Ivory Coast provide both refugees and host communities with general health care, including reproductive health consultations and referrals, focusing on the Ouangolodougou and Téhini districts. We also support routine immunization activities and preventive measles vaccination campaigns in collaboration with the Ministry of Health. MSF is also supporting the Ministry of Health in a pilot project on mental health and epilepsy in the Gbêkê region. This includes providing consultations and treatments, enrolling new patients, and referring people in need of higher-level care. We also conduct health education activities with communities to raise awareness about mental health conditions and epilepsy.
How we're helping
51,600
Outpatient consultations
14,700
Malaria cases treated
3,970
Individual mental health consultations
8,520
Prenatal consultations
*Data from MSF International Activity Report 2025
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