South Sudan: « Each day we continue to save the lives of our patients »
At the Raja State Hospital in South Sudan’s Lol State, the power goes out each morning. It won’t come back on for another 12 hours. Health staff can switch on a newly-acquired generator to provide electricity to the most important machines – including two oxygen compressors – but the rest of the hospital remains without lights or fans. There is still no functioning lab on the grounds to diagnose some pathologies or allow for blood transfusions.
South Sudan: Populations threatened by nutritional crisis
DAKAR, May 15, 2017 – For nearly three years, South Sudan has been plagued by a civil war that has displaced 1.9 million people, leaving more than 5 million people in need of food assistance and more than one million children suffering from acute malnutrition. The collapse of the latest peace agreement in July 2016 made the already fragile situation even more dire.
Following an exploration mission in March 2017 to assess needs, the medical organization ALIMA (The Alliance for International Medical Action) deployed an emergency medical intervention in the city of Raja in the northwestern state of Lol.
Nigeria: 3 questions to Aziz Ould Mohamed
Aziz Ould Mohamed is head of mission for ALIMA in Niger. In July, he helped set up ALIMA’s emergency response in Monguno in northeastern Nigeria where the organization is providing medical care for thousands of internally displaced persons (IDPs) facing an extreme health crisis.
Innovation in preventing malnutrition
CHECK OUT THE VIDEO ABOUT MUAC IN NIGER (IN FRENCH) Mothers can screen malnutrition in their children with a simple color-coded MUAC tape. PUBLICATIONS : Read study “Mothers Understand And Can do it (MUAC), co-signé par Mark Myatt, Thierry Allafort-Duverger, Amour Balogoun, Almou Ibrahim et André Briend, Archives of Public Health, May 2015. Read study […]
Video: Caring, innovating, together in 2016
In 2016, our doctors were able to rescue Louise and her baby through an emergency Caesarean section in the city of Boda in the Central African Republic. Every day on the ground, our teams operate, consult, vaccinate, train. Discover with this video what we have done thanks to your support in 2016. In total, 650,000 […]
Empowering Mothers to Prevent Malnutrition
1.4 million children are suffering from severe acute malnutrition in the Sahel, according to figures from ECHO and UNICEF. ALIMA is exploring new ways of working with mothers to help diagnose malnutrition in their children earlier by simplifying screening procedures.
Northern Nigeria: Thousands of displaced in urgent need of assistance
Following a United Nations alert in May about the dire situation of people displaced by conflict in northeastern Nigeria, ALIMA conducted an exploratory mission in Monguno, a city in Borno State where more than 100,000 displaced people are seeking refuge. Working alongside the Ministry of Health, ALIMA vaccinated children against measles. ALIMA found that more than one in three children were suffering from acute malnutrition, 10 percent of whom were suffering from severe acute malnutrition and at a high risk of death. Faced with this major emergency, ALIMA deployed additional resources and has now opened a clinic to provide urgent medical care to displaced people in Monguno.
Nigeria: 24 hours in Monguno
On July 1st, 2016, Mai Mahaman Saley and Dr Ali Ouattara, respectively Referent Logistics and Deputy Director of Programmes for ALIMA, conducted an exploratory mission in the city of Monguno in northeastern Nigeria. They were the first international aid workers to set foot there since the takeover of the city by the Nigerian military. Mai Mahaman Saley describes the first day in the city.
“Can you imagine being a parent unable to provide food for your children?”
Northeastern Nigeria update from Dr Gbané, ALIMA’s emergency coordinator
Mali: “MUAC for mothers” strategy could generate real progress in the fight against malnutrition
On November 1, 2016, ALIMA and its Malian partner AMCP (Medical Alliance Against Malaria) met with health authorities and humanitarian partners in Bamako, the capital of Mali. Their aim was to promote the integration of the “MUAC for Mothers” strategy in the fight against malnutrition in Mali. Here we speak with Dr. Fadiala Kalilou Keita, an advocacy officer for ALIMA-AMCP, about this innovative strategy and the challenges of implementing it.
