Republic of Congo
Also known as Congo-Brazzaville
Medical needs are numerous in Mindouli and Kindamba, in the Pool region, where malaria, respiratory infections, diarrhoea, HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis (TB) are prevalent. The country remains prone to outbreaks of infectious disease.
Médecins Sans Frontières provided integrated healthcare in the hospitals of Mindouli and Kindamba. Services ranged from outpatient care, maternal care and treatment of infectious diseases such as TB and HIV to voluntary-care treatment for HIV/AIDS, psychosocial counselling and emergency surgical care. Overall, MSF conducted over 78,000 consultations.
In June, Médecins Sans Frontières announced that it would hand over its activities and leave the country by mid-2008. To ensure continuity of our medical services, we will strive to identify other partners, including local non-governmental organisations and the United Nations, to support the Ministry of Health in the Pool region. Médecins Sans Frontières will also support the Ministry of Health to address small pockets of high incidence of sleeping sickness identified during the final project evaluation of 2008.
Médecins Sans Frontières has worked in the Republic of Congo since 1997
Month in Focus January 2011
19/01/2011
Video update on Médecins Sans Frontières activities in January 2011
Month in Focus June 2010
23/06/2010
Video update on Médecins Sans Frontières activities in June 2010. Includes Malawi, Congo-Brazzaville, Haiti and HIV/AIDS.
Republic of Congo: the forgotten people of the Ubangi River
08/03/2010
Tens of thousands of refugee families on the banks of the Ubangi River in the Republic of Congo and Central African Republic (CAR) are facing extreme shortages of food, shelter and healthcare. The refugees fled violence which...
DRC/Congo: After fleeing an extremely violent conflict, 100,000 people face precarious conditions
15/01/2010
Approximately 100,000 people from Equateur province, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), have crossed the border, fleeing extreme violence and the risk of its continuation. In Républic of Congo, these displaced populations do...
Alarming sanitary conditions prevail in Congo-Brazzaville's Pool region
12/01/2007
Médecins Sans Frontières urges the Congolese government to take action. Data from the Congolese ministry of health show that the Pool has only one doctor per 30,000 inhabitants (versus six per 30,000 in the rest of the country)...