Intense fighting between different armed groups in the Kivu region has caused thousands of people to flee their homes since August. Some sought safety in camps for displaced people in the regional capital, Goma. MSF strengthened existing projects and opened new projects to try and meet the huge needs but in many places the fighting and insecurity forced the evacuation of staff and the temporary suspension of work. In North Kivu, MSF opened a new project in Masisi, about 80 kilometres west of Goma, at the end of August. In response to ongoing violence and displacement, a team started working in the hospital and a health centre in Masisi town, focusing on emergency surgery and nutritional care.

As well as reinforcing and expanding medical activities in the Kivu region, long-running projects continue to provide HIV/AIDS care in Kinshasa and South Kivu, primary and secondary healthcare in Katanga and Maniema provinces and treatment for sexually transmitted infections in Kisangani. In some areas of Katanga, South Kivu and Dungu in Oriental province, the situation has stabilised to such an extent that MSF has been able to hand over activities to the Ministry of Health and other partner organisations.

MSF has worked in DRC since 1987.