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Guinea-Bissau

In Susana, the small village where MSF has its base for prevention and sensibilisation work for the cholera epidemic. Guinea-Bissau, November 2005.
© Pedro Cabeleira

MSF closed our projects in Guinea-Bissau in 2020.

From 2014 until 2020, MSF teams worked to improve paediatric care in Guinea-Bissau.

In the central region of Bafatá, we worked to reduce childhood mortality by managing the regional hospital’s neonatal and paediatric wards and running a nutrition programme for children under 15 years of age.

Our teams also supported several health centres in rural areas and trained community health workers to diagnose and treat diarrhoea, malaria, and acute respiratory infections.

We also worked in the main paediatric hospital in the country, in the capital of Bissau, managing the intensive care unit around the clock.

We handed over our projects in June 2020, leaving our facilities, equipment, and laboratory to the knowledgeable healthcare workers we trained.

 
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Crisis Update 17 Jul 2015
 
Guinea-Bissau

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Project Update 23 Oct 2008
 
Cholera

Cholera outbreaks across West Africa: MSF sends more staff and supplies

Project Update 14 Sep 2005
 
HIV/AIDS

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Project Update 4 Oct 2002
 
Guinea-Bissau

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Press Release 13 Aug 1998