Mali: ALIMA’s Actions on the Ground

📍  ALIMA presence since: 2011
🛡️ Mission status: ongoing
🏥 Beneficiaries in 2024: 154.520

🔹 Key areas of expertise:  Malnutrition | Women’s health | Pediatrics | Epidemics and emerging diseases | Research and innovation

Humanitarian situation in Mali

The humanitarian situation in Mali is marked by persistent armed conflicts, massive population displacement, and a severe nutrition crisis. Communities are increasingly exposed to violence, inadequate healthcare, and high rates of child malnutrition, all of which severely limit access to essential care and services.

 

📌 Key figures of the crisis in Mali

  • 🌍 Population: 23.1 million (OCHA, 2024)
  • 🚨 People in need of humanitarian aid: 6.4 million (OCHA, 2024)
  • 🏠 Internally displaced persons and refugees: 426,100 (UNHCR, 2024)
  • 🍽️ People facing severe food insecurity: 1.16 million (UN, 2021)

Medical aid and humanitarian response in Mali

👩‍⚕️ Women’s health

In the regions of Timbuktu, Ségou, and Bandiagara (Mopti), ALIMA is working alongside health structures to guarantee safe births, medical follow-up for pregnant women as well as postnatal support.

  • Free access to pre- and postnatal consultations
  • Medical support for childbirth
  • Training of midwives and local health workers 

 

📊 In 2024, ALIMA supported 11.031 assisted deliveries. 

 

🥣 Malnutrition

As child malnutrition is a major problem in Mali, ALIMA focuses on:

  • Treating malnourished children in health facilities
  • Improving access to nutritional care
  • Implementing the OptiMA protocol, a simplified and innovative approach
  • Training families in early detection of malnutrition using the MUAC method

 

📊 In 2024, ALIMA treated 10.480 children suffering from severe acute malnutrition. 

 

🚑 Conflict and displacement

In areas affected by forced displacement due to conflict, ALIMA is implementing specific actions:

  • Primary care and emergency consultations for displaced people through Advanced Health Posts (AHPs)
  • Mobile clinics deployed in remote areas
  • Community-based treatment of common infectious diseases (malaria, diarrhea, respiratory infections)

 

📊 In 2024, ALIMA provided 41.980 medical consultations for displaced populations. 

 

🦠 Epidemic response

ALIMA’s teams are actively engaged in the fight against recurring epidemics such as measles, meningitis, or dengue, by: 

  • Supporting the Ministry of Health
  • Deploying emergency vaccination campaigns
  • Strengthening the capacity of local response teams
  • Providing medical follow-up of identified cases 

 

📊  In 2024, ALIMA vaccinated 20,801 people against polio, hepatitis B, diphtheria, tetanus, whooping cough, Haemophilus influenzae type b infections, meningitis, rotavirus-related diarrhea, and measles.

 

🔬 Research and innovation: OptiMA and AIRE

  • OptiMA: innovative approach simplifying the treatment of acute malnutrition
  • AIRE: improving the identification of respiratory distress in children 

 

📊 In 2024, ALIMA trained 41 health workers in the use of pulse oximeters. 

Highlight project in Mali

🎯 Medical and nutritional assistance to crisis-affected populations in the districts of Goundam and Diré 

This project aims to address the urgent health and nutrition needs of crisis-affected populations in northern Mali and internally displaced persons in the Ségou region.

 

📌 Why this project matters

  • Mass displacement of people fleeing conflict
  • Limited access to healthcare in rural areas
  • Severe child and maternal malnutrition

 

📌 Project goals

  • Free healthcare for children and pregnant women
  • Mobile medical teams reaching remote and underserved areas
  • Treatment and prevention of severe acute malnutrition
  • Support to the local health system 

 

Through this project, vulnerable communities have access to essential care, reducing infant and maternal mortality. 

Testimony from the field: the impact of ALIMA's actions

Since we arrived, we've had the same feedback from the communities: the medicine depot is a real relief. Buying medication requires resources, it can sometimes even cost more than the consultation. We are the first NGO to offer free medicines in Bandiagara. I love seeing happy faces, seeing the population healthy, knowing that my presence is valued and recognized.

Julien, Pharmacy Manager, ALIMA/AMCP-SP project, Bandiagara

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