Honduras 2024 © Martín Cálix/MSF

Honduras

Instability, violence, and poverty have afflicted Honduras for years, as well as violence against women.

Our work in Honduras

Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) marked the 50-year anniversary of our first response in Honduras in 2024. Today, we deliver health care for migrants and marginalized groups, including sex workers and the LGBTQI+ community.

What’s happening in Honduras?

Honduras has experienced many years of political and social instability, with women among the worst affected. According to the UN Office on Drugs and Crime, Honduras has the highest murder rate in Central America, and is one of the most dangerous places for women in the world.

How we're helping in Honduras

Our first-ever response in Honduras followed Hurricane Fifí in 1974, and since then, we have remained committed to providing medical care to people affected by natural hazards, sexual violence, and disease outbreaks, as well as migrants traveling through the country.

As part of a study initiated in 2023 in collaboration with the World Mosquito Program, the Ministry of Health, and the National Autonomous University of Honduras, we released mosquitoes inoculated with Wolbachia, a bacterium that prevents them from carrying dengue. Future mosquito generations will inherit these bacteria, disrupting the transmission chain. By late 2024, most mosquitoes in the pilot area near the capital, Tegucigalpa, carried Wolbachia.

To address the high number of cases of the disease in northern Honduras, MSF has supported the Ministry of Health with staff, medicines, and medical supplies in four municipalities.

In 2024, we concluded the sexual and reproductive health activities we had been running for seven years to support Choloma's mother and child health care clinic and mobile clinics. In San Pedro Sula, we continue to provide comprehensive health services for sex workers and members of the LGBTQI+ community, including psychosocial support, screening for cervical cancer and sexually transmitted infections, HPV vaccinations, family planning, and HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP). Our team also treats victims and survivors of sexual violence.

We maintain our base in Danlí, a city near the border with Nicaragua, offering medical and psychological care, social support, and health promotion services to migrants.

How we're helping

27,700

Outpatient consultations

7,540

Individual mental health consultations

930

People treated for sexual violence

1,960

Consultations for contraceptive services

*Data from MSF International Activity Report 2024

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