Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has launched a new emergency health project in South West Ethiopia Region, marking the beginning of a stable operational Emergency presence in the Southwest Region. The project started in 2025 following assessments that identified unmet medical needs in a region home to more than three million people and highly vulnerable to recurrent outbreaks of malaria, measles, cholera, and other infectious diseases.
The new MSF project aims at establishing an agile response capacity in a region with remote communities, particularly vulnerable during recurrent outbreaks and health emergencies. Through this intervention, MSF aims to strengthen the capacity of the local health system to prevent, detect, and respond to outbreaks while improving access to quality, free healthcare. (Press release)
