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A young man fills a water bottle from a pump installed by MSF, in Assamaka. Niger, November 2020.

Niger 2020 © Mariama Diallo/MSF

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The first few months of the year are usually the least busy for MSF teams in Niger. But everything changed in March 2020 with the spread of COVID-19.

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Our work in Niger

Niger is affected by violence and population displacements in its border regions that form part of the Central Sahel and the Lake Chad Basin.

What's happening in Niger?

To improve health care for displaced people, host communities and the population at large ─ in particular children ─ we work with the Ministry of Health and community health workers to deliver integrated health programs throughout the country.


MSF teams are currently responding to the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic in Niger.

How we're helping in Niger

In the capital, Niamey, the city with the most cases, MSF built a treatment center to care for patients in the first months of the pandemic. We also supported the COVID-19 call center in Niamey and some health facilities in other major cities.

 

From June, heavy rains fell, submerging the most impoverished districts of the capital and several parts of Maradi, Tahoua, and Tillabéri. In Niamey, we supplied drinking water and set up mobile clinics to assist people displaced by the floods. In addition, we distributed relief items and provided psychological support in the hardest-hit areas of the city.

In Diffa, Maradi, Magaria, and Tillabéri, our teams treated more patients with malaria than in 2019, mainly due to the shortage of antimalarial medicines and a lack of access to health care, both due to the COVID-19 crisis. The early onset of the rainy season also resulted in increased transmission of the disease.

From October to December, we supported a regional hospital in Niamey to improve care for children under the age of 15 by increasing its inpatient capacity, training staff and donating drugs. We also maintained our support to the Ministry of Public Health by boosting inpatient capacity for the treatment of acutely malnourished children in Madarounfa and Magaria. Our teams are developing preventive and community-based approaches to reduce the number of patients with complications from malnutrition; for example, by providing early treatment for malaria, acute respiratory infections and diarrhea.

Despite the closure of the border during the pandemic, the systematic and illegal expulsion of migrants from Algeria to Niger continued in 2020. MSF teams in Agadez donated essential health care supplies, gave psychosocial support, and ran search and rescue operations for migrants lost or abandoned in the desert.

Throughout the year, our teams assisted host communities and displaced people affected by violence in Tillabéri and Diffa regions by offering health care and distributing relief items. We also asked the relevant authorities to ensure the protection of civilians and improve assistance to them.

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How we're helping in 2020

681,200

Outpatient consultations

291,600

Malaria cases treated

55,300

People admitted to hospital, including 41,700 children aged under five

27,000

Children admitted to outpatient feeding programs for severe acute malnutrition

1,469

Staff in 2020 (full-time equivalent)

1985

Year MSF first worked in the country

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