Guinea: ALIMA’s Actions on the Ground
📍 ALIMA presence since: 2014
🛡️ Mission status: ongoing
🏥 Beneficiaries in 2024: 30,072
🔹 Key areas of expertise: Epidemics and emerging diseases | Malnutrition | Women’s health | Health system strengthening | Research and innovation
Humanitarian situation in Guinea
In Guinea, access to healthcare remains limited, particularly for women and newborns. The country has one of the highest maternal mortality rates in the world, with 553 deaths per 100,000 live births.
The Guinean health system also faces recurring epidemics (measles, meningitis, Lassa fever, MonkeyPox).
📌 Key figures of the crisis in Guinea
- 🌍 Population: 14 million (World Bank, 2023)
- 🚨 People in need of humanitarian aid: NA
- 🏠 Internally displaced persons and refugees: 2,200 (UNHCR, 2024)
- 🍽️ People facing severe food insecurity: 1.2 million (IMF, 2022)
To address these challenges, ALIMA has been active across several regions, working to reinforce health infrastructure, train medical personnel, and improve epidemic prevention.
Medical aid and humanitarian response in Guinea
👩⚕️ Maternal and newborn health
In Telimele, ALIMA is working to improve access to maternal and newborn care by equipping health facilities with mobile ultrasound scanners. Midwives and clinic managers receive training to detect high-risk pregnancies and refer patients to the prefectural hospital. ALIMA also collaborates with local health actors to better care for mothers and newborns.
📊 In 2024, ALIMA supported 3,111 births in its health facilities.
🦠 Outbreak response and access to medical oxygen
Through the AIRE and Oxygen projects, ALIMA has equipped several hospitals with oxygen extractors and pulse oximeters, critical tools for treating respiratory infections and patients with respiratory distress.
📊 In 2024, ALIMA equipped seven hospitals and health centers with oxygen extractors and pulse oximeters.
🔬 Research and innovation: a step forward for Ebola vaccination
As part of the PREVAC-UP project, ALIMA participated in a major clinical trial on Ebola vaccination published in 2024, in partnership with African and international research institutions.
📊 In 2024, ALIMA began preparing two new clinical trials: IMOVA and EBO-PEP, both focused on post-exposure prophylaxis for Ebola.
🏥 Health system strengthening and training medical staff
Across several health facilities, ALIMA provides essential training in Emergency Obstetric and Neonatal Care (EONC), ultrasound use, and the handling of vital medical equipment.
📊 In 2024, ALIMA trained 95 healthcare professionals.
Highlight project: improving maternal and newborn healthcare
🎯 Community-based project for reproductive and maternal health
Since 2023, ALIMA has been implementing an innovative project to improve the care of pregnant women and raise awareness in communities on the importance of prenatal care.
📌 Why this project matters
- Limited access to maternal and newborn care in rural areas, resulting in high rates of maternal and infant morbidity and mortality.
- A shortage of medical personnel trained in the management of unsafe deliveries.
📌 Project goals
- Deploy mobile ultrasound scanners to detect high-risk pregnancies.
- Train midwives and traditional birth attendants in obstetrical care.
- Engage men through a network of “model husbands” to promote prenatal care and family planning.
Thanks to this project, over 11,000 prenatal consultations were conducted, and over 6,000 births have been attended in the supported health centers.
Testimony from the field: the impact of ALIMA's actions
In the past, most women gave birth at home. When one of my children was born, my wife started bleeding, and we had to carry her to Telimele, a seven-hour walk. Today, as a 'model husband', I talk to other men in my community about the importance of prenatal checkups and health center care.
Mamadou, model husband in Guinea
On the ground
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