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Nigeria: Reducing fear, improving care during severe Lassa fever season

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MSF teams responding to Lassa fever seasonal peak in six states. “Lassa fever is a disease that essentially disguises itself,” says Ayokunnu Raji, physician and MSF emergency medical program manager. “At the beginning, symptoms are very similar to other common illnesses in Nigeria such as malaria or typhoid — by the time many patients arrive at our treatment centre, they are already critically ill.”  One of those patients was Musa, […]

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Nigeria: MSF hands over Cross River project after three years of medical care

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In September 2025, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) concluded our Cross River project after three years of collaboration with the state Ministry of Health (MoH). We provided free, comprehensive healthcare to thousands of people living in Akor and Old Ndibeji, near the Nigerian-Cameroonian border. Launched in May 2022, the project supported two general healthcare […]

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Maternal health: “I don’t know what will become of her. She’s a girl”

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Stories from women in some of the world’s most remote places reveal that the challenges of giving birth safely are strikingly similar across continents. And they are preventable. Three women living in vastly different places are brought together by shared challenges during pregnancy: Hermina in Central African Republic (CAR), Murjanatu in northern Nigeria and Sabera […]

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Nigeria: How early malaria diagnosis and care make the difference between life and death

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The wards of the Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)-supported hospital in Gummi, Nigeria, are rarely quiet during the rainy season. Mothers sit close to metal beds, watching over children facing fevers, convulsions and exhaustion. Outside, the rain brings relief from the heat. But inside the hospital’s walls, it brings a surge of complicated malaria […]

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Nigeria: Addressing mental health and malnutrition together

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Every year, millions of children around the world suffer from malnutrition — a crisis that is all too visible in their frail bodies and tired eyes. But what is often less visible, yet just as devastating, are the psychological wounds that malnutrition inflicts on both children and their caregivers.  Over the years, the upward surge […]

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Nigeria: An MSF physiotherapist helps children overcome long-term consequences of malnutrition

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In 2024, the MSF team at Unguwa Uku hospital in Kano, Nigeria, admitted 46,304 children for malnutrition. The factors behind the crisis are complex, including climate change, armed conflict and the spiralling cost of living. Most children can be treated at home with special therapeutic food, whilst those with complications need more intensive care and are […]

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Nigeria: in Jahun, MSF supports women affected by obstetric fistulas in their recovery

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At Jahun general hospital in northern Nigeria, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams provide reconstructive surgery, mental health care and rehabilitation for women with obstetric fistulas. Around 300 women benefit from these services every year.  “We don’t see fistulas in [high income] countries because there’s access to cesarean sections or suction cups, but here in […]

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Nigeria: Harnessing solar power improves care in northern hospitals

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To improve patients’ healthcare in northern Nigeria, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is embracing solar energy to power the hospitals we support, facilities which have historically depended on expensive fuel-intensive generators. By moving to renewable energy, communities in the region now have better, more sustainable access to critical medical devices, medication and infrastructure.  Moments […]

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Nigeria: MSF and Sokoto state launch vaccination campaign to reduce deadly diseases

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Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), in partnership with the Sokoto state Ministry of Health, is encouraging community members in Sokoto to participate in a vaccination campaign – the goal is to help reduce the number of children suffering from potentially fatal diseases including measles and diphtheria. These diseases can cause long-term complications if contracted. In […]

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MSF calls for urgent action as governments and donors are failing children with TB

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Too many children with TB are neither tested nor treated, with many countries failing at the first hurdle: updating policy guidelines in line with WHO recommendations. A new report released by Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), shows that children with tuberculosis (TB) continue to be left behind in the global effort to end the […]

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