Niger: ALIMA’s Actions on the Ground
📍 ALIMA presence since: 2009
🛡️ Mission status: ongoing
🏥 Beneficiaries in 2024: 1,098,873 people
🔹 Key areas of expertise: Epidemics and emerging diseases | Malnutrition | Women’s health | Pediatrics | Research and innovation
Humanitarian situation in Niger
Niger is facing one of the most severe humanitarian crises in the Sahel. Security instability in the tri-border area (Niger, Burkina Faso, Mali) and around Lake Chad Basin is worsening living conditions for vulnerable populations. Amid food insecurity, child malnutrition, and repeated epidemics, access to medical care remains a major challenge.
📌 Key figures of the crisis in Niger
- 🌍 Population: 28.2 million (OCHA, 2024)
- 🚨 People in need of humanitarian aid: 2.7 million (OCHA, 2024)
- 🏠 Internally displaced persons and refugees: 770,100 (UNHCR, 2024)
- 🍽️ People facing severe food insecurity: 4.4 million (UN, 2022)
The rate of global acute malnutrition exceeds 12.2%, and epidemics such as cholera, meningitis, measles, and diphtheria continue to affect the population. To address these challenges, ALIMA is stepping in to provide essential care to the most vulnerable populations.
Medical aid and humanitarian response in Niger
🥣 Fighting malnutrition and the food crisis
ALIMA implements community-based nutrition programs to detect and treat malnutrition. The MUAC for Mothers initiative allows mothers to identify the first signs of malnutrition in their children using a simple tricolor MUAC bracelet.
📊 In 2024, ALIMA treated 113,209 children suffering from severe acute malnutrition.
🦠 Epidemics in Niger: vaccination and disease prevention
ALIMA’s medical teams are conducting emergency vaccination campaigns, setting up mobile clinics, and supporting local health facilities to curb the spread of epidemics and improve access to preventive care.
📊 In 2024, ALIMA vaccinated 206,802 people against the priority diseases of the Expanded Program on Immunization (EPI).
👩⚕️ Women’s health: maternal care and the fight against gender-based violence
ALIMA supports pregnant women and young mothers by ensuring appropriate medical follow-up. A specific component is dedicated to the medical and psychological care of survivors of gender-based violence (GBV), in collaboration with medical teams, psychologists, and social workers.
📊 In 2024, ALIMA supported 9,155 assisted births.
👶 Pediatrics: guaranteeing access to care for children
Through its interventions, ALIMA provides treatment for malaria, acute respiratory infections, and other common childhood diseases, particularly in the regions of Tillabéry, Tahoua, Maradi, and Zinder.
📊 In 2024, ALIMA carried out 115,012 primary health consultations, including 33,412 cases of malaria.
🔬 Research and innovation: solutions adapted to crisis contexts
To improve the impact of its field interventions, ALIMA is leading operational research projects such as OptiMA, ComPAS, OptiMAX aimed at optimizing the treatment of malnutrition and improving vaccination coverage through SQ-LNS supplementation.
📊 In 2024, ALIMA deployed new solutions to optimize the management of malnutrition and improve vaccination coverage.
Highlight project: strengthening access to healthcare in Niger
🎯 Improving access to healthcare in the regions of Tillabéry, Tahoua, and Maradi
This project aims to reduce infant and maternal mortality in areas affected by conflict and a nutrition crisis.
📌 Why this project matters
- Local, refugee, and displaced populations have limited access to healthcare.
- Rates of malnutrition and childhood diseases remain critically high.
📌 Project goals
- Strengthen 33 health centers with medical and logistical support
- Deploy 9 mobile clinics to reach the most isolated populations.
- Train community health workers and traditional birth attendants to ensure local follow-up.
- Provide psychosocial support with mental health consultations and care for survivors of gender-based violence.
Testimony from the field: the impact of ALIMA's actions
My son had a fever and stopped eating. I thought it was malaria, but at the health center, they told me he was also severely malnourished. ALIMA took care of everything. Today, he is better and playing again. I am deeply grateful for this help that saved my child.
Rahina Harou, mother of Djibir, 19 months old
On the ground
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