Since February 2024, Haiti’s security crisis, especially in Port-au-Prince, has worsened, driving thousands of families to seek refuge in makeshift camps where living conditions are extremely precarious. In response, ALIMA has been offering essential medical aid to support the most vulnerable for the past year.
In the North-West region of Cameroon, an ongoing humanitarian crisis is jeopardizing access to social services for thousands of pregnant women and children. Thanks to a project led by ALIMA and funded by the European Union, vulnerable populations are receiving free healthcare.
As climate change intensifies droughts in the Amazon rainforest, traditional midwives like Tabita dos Santos Moraes become lifelines for pregnant women in remote communities where once-navigable rivers have shrunk to impassable streams, making the journey to hospitals dangerous or impossible.
Australian Red Cross Lifeblood’s most remarkable donor, James Harrison, known as “The Man with the Golden Arm,” helped save an estimated 2.4 million babies with his rare anti-D antibody.
In the department of Couffo, Benin, MSF teams are raising awareness about family planning methods and the importance of regular medical monitoring for pregnant women.