Honduras
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) marked the 50-year anniversary of our first response in Honduras in 2024. Today, we deliver healthcare for migrants and marginalised groups, including people engaged in sex work and the LGBTQI+ community.
Our activities in 2024 —
outpatient consultations
individual mental health consultations
consultations for contraceptive services
people treated for sexual violence
Our first-ever response in Honduras followed Hurricane Fifí in 1974, and since then, we have remained committed to providing medical care to people affected by natural hazards, sexual violence, and disease outbreaks, as well as migrants travelling through the country.
As part of a study initiated in 2023 in collaboration with the World Mosquito Program, the Ministry of Health, and the National Autonomous University of Honduras, we released mosquitoes inoculated with Wolbachia, a bacterium that prevents them from carrying dengue. Future mosquito generations will inherit these bacteria, disrupting the transmission chain. By late 2024, most mosquitoes in the pilot area near the capital, Tegucigalpa, carried Wolbachia.
To address the high number of cases of dengue in northern Honduras, MSF supported the Ministry of Health with staff, medicines, and medical supplies in four municipalities.
In 2024, we concluded the sexual and reproductive health activities we had been running for seven years to support Choloma’s mother and child healthcare clinic and mobile clinics. In San Pedro Sula, we continue to provide comprehensive health services for people who engage in sex work and members of the LGBTQI+ community, including psychosocial support, screening for cervical cancer and sexually transmitted infections, HPV vaccinations, family planning, and HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP). Our team also treats victims and survivors of sexual violence.
We maintained our base in Danlí, a city near the border with Nicaragua, offering medical and psychological care, social support, and health promotion services to migrants.