Bolivia is one of the countries with the lowest health indicators in Latin America. Despite increased investment in public health facilities in recent years, availability and quality of care remain poor.
From 2019 to 2021, we ran a small sexual and reproductive health programme in El Alto, a municipality next to the capital, La Paz. The project focused on local indigenous people, among whom teenage pregnancies, and death during pregnancy and childbirth occur most frequently.
We also worked in two maternity units in the city, in collaboration with the Ministry of Health in both centres to assist births. The project was successfully handed over to local authorities of El Alto at the end of 2021.
In 2020 and 2021, we also responded to the COVID-19 pandemic, where we provided training on infection prevention and control measures, and medical training in six COVID-19 centres covering five municipalities across Beni region, in the country’s northeast.
Currently MSF has no activities in Bolivia but we continue monitoring the needs and we are ready to intervene if needed.
Bolivia
MSF develops an information system for exterminating the bugs that transmit Chagas
Project Update
4 Nov 2016
Chagas disease
MSF begins work in Monteagudo in Chuquisaca, Bolivia
Project Update
10 Apr 2015
Project Update
We are in a historic momentum to transform the lives of millions of people
Voices from the Field
16 Apr 2013
Photo Story
27 Feb 2013
Photo Story
Chagas disease
Shortage of benznidazole leaves Chagas patients without treatment
Press Release
5 Oct 2011
Bolivia
Bolivia's bug killers: Preventing the spread of Chagas
Project Update
18 Feb 2004