MSF’s mobile clinics in the Central African Republic take medical care where it’s needed most - directly to people who have been unable to return to their homes due to ongoing violence in their communities.

MSF medical workers in Bambari travel to several remote regions a week, providing treatment, including care for survivors of sexual and gender based violence, malaria and malnutrition. Malaria remains the main cause of illness and death for the Central Africans. About 800, 000 cases of malaria were recorded last year in the Central African Republic (CAR) despite the significant efforts made by the authorities and humanitarian actors to contain the disease. Malaria was originally two-thirds of medical consultations conducted throughout the country in 2015.

In 2013 in the Central African Republic, a political crisis and violence shook the country worsening the shortage of health services. 72 percent of health facilities have now been damaged or destroyed while 20 percent of the population is displaced internally or has fled”

In response to the crisis, MSF has doubled its medical assistance in CAR, now running 17 projects. MSF’s mobile clinics treat those who remain unable to return to their communities, because of the threat of violence.

In 2015 alone, the Bambari team undertook 57,181 patient consultations. These images follow the stories just some of the moving stories MSF’s staff encounter on their journey to provide free medical care to the hundreds of thousands of people displaced by conflict.

Currently, 20% of the Central African population are internally displaced or refugees in neighbouring countries.