Cameroon
In 2025, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) provided emergency surgery for patients with violence-related injuries in Cameroon’s volatile Far North region, and helped tackle outbreaks of infectious diseases.
Our activities in 2025 —
outpatient consultations
malaria cases treated
surgical interventions
admissions of children to outpatient feeding programmes
The conflict in the Lake Chad Basin continues to have a severe impact on communities in northern Cameroon. Many people have been displaced and injured during repeated incursions by armed groups. Throughout 2025, MSF maintained support to the emergency surgery department at Mora district hospital, treating patients with violence-related wounds and trauma.
In addition, our teams worked to bring care closer to home for communities cut off from medical facilities due to insecurity. We trained community health workers to identify and treat uncomplicated malaria1, diarrhoea, and severe acute malnutrition in children, and to refer patients requiring specialist care.
Following a resurgence in measles cases in Far North, we carried out an emergency vaccination campaign in Mora health district and treated children at the district hospital.
In Yaoundé, the capital, we launched a cholera prevention project in support of the national eradication plan. Our teams are working with local authorities to curb the spread of the epidemic that has persisted since 2021. We are constructing and rehabilitating water distribution points to improve access to safe drinking water in the most at-risk neighbourhoods, and conducting community awareness activities to promote good hygiene practices.
1 Uncomplicated malaria is a form of malaria where a person has a diagnosis confirmed by a test, but does not have severe or life-threatening symptoms.