Following a reduction in the number of cholera cases, MSF has ended our response supporting the Mozambican Ministry of Health in the northern province of Niassa. This area was the most affected by the recent upsurge of the disease in the country. MSF completed activities the first week of March following the launch of an oral cholera vaccination campaign by the health authorities targeting 719,000 people in Mozambique, 556,000 of them in Niassa.

As part of our work in Niassa, MSF set up and strengthened CTCs in the provincial capital, Lichinga, as well as in seven other locations. MSF also donated equipment including cholera beds, hygiene kits for patients’ families, bottles of water purifier, and trained medical staff and other workers to raise community awareness about the effects of the disease and preventive measures.

Although the number of cases has now decreased in Niassa, MSF continues to follow the epidemiological trends in the province and to work closely with the national and provincial authorities in other parts of the country as cases of cholera have been detected in six other provinces of Mozambique.