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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