*Data from MSF International Activity Report 2024
Burkina Faso 2021 © MSF/Mario Fawaz
Burkina Faso
An upsurge in violence has led to mass displacement & severely restricted access to health services in Burkina Faso.
Our work in Burkina Faso
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) launched numerous emergency interventions across Burkina Faso in 2024 to assist people displaced by conflict. MSF teams worked in five regions, delivering lifesaving care to thousands of displaced people and host communities living under blockade.
What's happening in Burkina Faso?
MSF’s office and the facilities we support have been the targets of several violent attacks; our teams and patients were threatened or assaulted, and one staff member was fatally shot in circumstances not yet clarified. Other NGOs and Ministry of Health teams were also targeted during 2024.
After numerous security incidents, we had to end our support to the thousands of people living in the blockaded town of Djibo, Sahel region, who were mainly reliant on humanitarian aid. We also closed our projects in Pama and Gorgadji in order to redirect and adapt our response to the movement of people in these areas. As the violence forced more people to flee across the country, we launched several emergency interventions in Sahel and Est regions.
How we're helping in Burkina Faso
MSF runs a range of medical activities in Burkina Faso, including basic, pediatric, and maternal health care, sexual and reproductive health services, and screening and treatment for malaria and malnutrition. In 2024 we continued to work in Hauts-Bassins, strengthening our provision of maternal, pediatric, and emergency health care, as well as nutritional support. We also focused on preventing neonatal deaths by implementing strategies such as ‘zero separation,’ which advocates that one parent always being present with a newborn, and creating a training center for point-of-care ultrasound to facilitate faster diagnosis and interventions. Our other activities in 2024 included distributing water, responding to a surge in febrile jaundice in Kaya, and supporting the local authorities' response to outbreaks of measles by providing vaccinations and medical treatment in Centre-Nord, Sahel, and Est regions.
How we're helping
922,500
Outpatient consultations
313,900
Malaria cases treated
162,500
Vaccinations against measles in response to an outbreak
31
Million gallons of chlorinated water distributed
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