We work in coordination with, and in support to, the Ethiopian Ministry of Health (MoH), and conduct independent evaluations to determine people’s needs.
In Gambella we provide basic healthcare for refugees from South Sudan and the host community, while in Wardher and across the Somali region, our emergency teams carry out disease surveillance, prevention and response activities for drought-affected communities.
In Afar region, in the northeast, our teams support Dupti hospital by running a treatment facility for patients who need to be admitted for severe and complicated malnutrition. In nearby camps, we also run an outpatient malnutrition programme and provide water for displaced people.
In Southern Nations, Nationalities, and People's region, MSF teams provide care through mobile clinics, epidemic response and occasional support to mass casualty situations.
In Amhara region, we are assisting in responding to the increased needs in conflict affected areas by donating medical supplies to health facilities and providing mobile clinics for basic healthcare in North and South Wollo. We also treat kala azar and snakebites and offer basic laboratory services in the region. Our team provides health education to patients, their caretakers, staff at Abdurafi health centre, and wider communities.
Brutal killing of our colleagues in Tigray, in June 2021
On 24 June 2021, our colleagues María Hernández Matas, Yohannes Halefom Reda and Tedros Gebremariam Gebremichael were killed while providing life-saving assistance to people in the Tigray region of Ethiopia. No one has claimed responsibility and the circumstances around their deaths remain unclear.
After more than one year of engagement with the Ethiopian authorities, we still do not have any credible answers on what happened to our colleagues that day. This brutal attack on three MSF staff is an acute reminder of the urgent need for all parties to provide assurances that humanitarian work can be carried out safely in Tigray and the rest of Ethiopia. We will continue to honour the memory of María, Yohannes and Tedros, and pursue accountability for their killings using all possible means and avenues.
![Left to right: Yohannes Halefom Reda, a coordination assistant, was 31 years old, from Ethiopia; María Hernández Matas, 35, from Spain, began working with MSF in 2015; Tedros Gebremariam Gebremichael, 31, also from Ethiopia, had been a driver for MSF since May 2021.](/sites/default/files/styles/longform_breaker_mobile/public/images/MSF%20Staff%20Ethiopia%20Tribute.jpg?itok=9UjOJlhf)
Our activities in 2023 in Ethiopia
Data and information from the International Activity Report 2023.
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2,990
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Fighting stigma and providing mental health to Eritrean refugees
![Ethiopia Acute Watery Diarrhea Intervention Kebridahar 2017 Ethiopia Acute Watery Diarrhea Intervention Kebridahar 2017](https://img.msf.org/AssetLink/pdb4fdsu3i45fo7y3p31ov63bw7p8r0x.jpg)
Crisis update – September 2017
![Roberto Wright, MSF's emergency team Anthropologist in Somali region, Ethiopia Roberto Wright, MSF's emergency team Anthropologist in Somali region, Ethiopia](https://img.msf.org/Docs/MSF/Media/CMS3/9/5/a/1/MSF206540.jpg)
“If people don’t understand what we do, they will never come to our health centres”
![MSF HIV Clinics in Kinshasa, DRC MSF HIV Clinics in Kinshasa, DRC](https://img.msf.org/AssetLink/qim4e5wktr720013524tmgnj470n1481.jpg)
HIV response in West and Central Africa will not succeed if key barriers remain unaddressed
![Asbuli 2016 Asbuli 2016](https://img.msf.org/AssetLink/bt5d8537lp41dsng6615a04sa8g4qnum.jpg)
MSF sees tenfold increase in children with malnutrition in Doolo zone
![Snakebite Amputation Snakebite Amputation](https://img.msf.org/AssetLink/0cvj525ho0f478o71qb7h332hww5v3yd.jpg)
MSF welcomes WHO decision to include snakebite on Neglected Tropical Diseases list
![MSF AWD ward in Kebridahar 2017 MSF AWD ward in Kebridahar 2017](https://img.msf.org/AssetLink/chahh0n26tav4v56p27hnot53oww4x6g.jpg)
Thousands hit by outbreak of acute watery diarrhoea during worst drought for decades
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“I feel like I have been given a second life by the doctors and nurses here.”
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