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We provide care for refugees, victims of sexual violence and drug users, while responding to public health challenges such as HIV, and in 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic.
We offer care to refugees and slum dwellers in Kenya and respond to public health challenges such as HIV and access to hospital services.
In our 100-bed hospital in Dagahaley, part of the Dadaab refugee camp, our teams conduct outpatient consultations, and admit patients to the hospital, including children with severe malnutrition.
We have also launched a sexual and reproductive health project in Mrima health facility, in Mombasa. In partnership with the Mombasa County Department of Health, we aim to reduce maternal and newborn mortality in the area.
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams are currently responding to the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic in Kenya.
Despite the restrictions imposed on access to health care by COVID-19, and strikes by health care workers, MSF continued to run programs across the country. In Nairobi, medical services, phone-based counseling for victims of sexual and gender-based violence, and our trauma room and ambulance services were a lifeline for many patients, including women in labor.
In March, we launched our medical program for people who use drugs in Kiambu. Our one-stop facility provides opioid substitution therapy, treatment for diseases such as HIV and tuberculosis, mental health support and wound care.
In Homa Bay, our team continues to work on improving HIV care , focusing on patients with advanced HIV, as well as children and adolescents. Reducing the mortality at the county’s apex hospital through better identification, management, and follow-up of patients with critical conditions remains a priority for MSF.
In Embu county, we are working to decentralize and integrate treatment for non-communicable diseases (NCDs) such as hypertension, diabetes and epilepsy, within 11 existing general health centers. The project involves mentoring Ministry of Health staff in the care and management of NCDs, as well as guaranteeing continuity of treatment for patients.
Our project in Likoni, Mombasa county, offers maternal and neonatal care. We also assist births and offer pre- and postnatal services. In Dagahaley camp, which hosts some 70,000 refugees, we run a 100-bed hospital and two health posts. Our comprehensive services, which are also available to the host community, include sexual and reproductive health care, emergency obstetric surgery, medical and psychological assistance to victims of sexual and gender-based violence, psychosocial counseling, home-based insulin treatment, palliative care and specialist referrals.
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, we ran a 40-bed isolation facility in the camp and trained staff working for Garissa and Wajir district health authorities on infection prevention and control measures, screening and collecting swabs for testing.
Patients admitted to the hospital
People treated for sexual violence
People on second-line ARV treatment in MSF-supported facilities
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© Médecins Sans Frontières 2021
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