Cameroon: ALIMA’s Actions on the Ground
📍 ALIMA presence since: 2016
🛡️ Mission status: ongoing
🏥 Beneficiaries in 2024: 319,166 people
🔹 Key areas of expertise: Epidemics and emerging diseases | Malnutrition | Women’s health
Humanitarian situation in Cameroon
Cameroon is facing a persistent humanitarian crisis marked by armed conflicts, natural disasters, and epidemics.
In the Far North region, violence from armed groups and intercommunal tensions are worsening access to healthcare. Health infrastructure is fragile, and outbreaks of cholera and measles are further weakening vulnerable populations.
📌 Key figures of the crisis in Cameroon
- 🌍 Population: 29.4 million (OCHA, 2024)
- 🚨 People in need of humanitarian aid: 3.3 million (OCHA, 2024)
- 🏠 Internally displaced persons and refugees: 1.5 million (UNHCR, 2024)
- 🍽️ People facing severe food insecurity: 2.9 million (OCHA, 2023)
To address these challenges, ALIMA is working to ensure access to primary healthcare, fight malnutrition, and provide a response to epidemics.
Medical aid and humanitarian response in Cameroon
👩⚕️Maternal health and assisted childbirth
ALIMA supports local medical facilities to ensure comprehensive medical follow-up for pregnant women and newborns, including training health personnel and providing appropriate medical equipment.
📊 In 2024, ALIMA supported 7,298 deliveries in its health facilities, including 435 complicated births.
🥣 Malnutrition and pediatric care
ALIMA’s teams are working to empower families to detect early signs of malnutrition through the MUAC for Mothers program, which allows parents and caregivers to measure the nutritional status of their children using a color-coded bracelet.
📊 In 2024, ALIMA treated 12,254 children suffering from acute malnutrition and 16,472 cases of moderate acute malnutrition.
🦠 Responding to epidemics: a health priority
ALIMA is actively addressing the measles, cholera, and Covid-19 outbreaks by strengthening vaccination campaigns and providing rapid care to affected patients.
📊 In 2024, ALIMA vaccinated 19,326 people.
🚑 Emergency care for displaced populations
In areas affected by conflict and population displacement, ALIMA deploys mobile clinics and provides medical support to local structures, ensuring access to emergency care for the most vulnerable.
📊 In 2024, ALIMA conducted 81,244 medical consultations with displaced populations, out of a total of 270,814 consultations for all age groups.
Highlight project: medical-surgical assistance for women and children
🎯 Medical support project for women and children in the Far North
In a region deeply impacted by insecurity and violence related to the Boko Haram conflict, ALIMA is running a free medical and surgical care program for women and children.
📌 Why this project matters
- Limited access to specialized care for women who are victims of violence or obstetric complications.
- High incidence of obstetric fistulas and cleft lip/palate requiring surgical management.
📌 Project goals
- Free surgery for obstetric fistulas and cleft lip/palate.
- Care for survivors of sexual violence with medical and psychological support.
- Cervical cancer screening and care.
- Establishment of economic empowerment programs for women medical support.
Thanks to this initiative, hundreds of women benefit each year from specialized treatment and comprehensive support to rebuild their future.
Testimony from the field: the impact of ALIMA's actions
My role is to raise awareness and inform the community about the care options available. Many women were reluctant to seek help, but through conversations and meetings, they began to trust the process. As a community worker, I'm proud to help improve the health of women and children around me.
Christabelle, 32, community relay for ALIMA in Cameroon
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