Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), in collaboration with the Ministry of Health (MoH), has completed a multi-antigen vaccination campaign, aimed at protecting tens of thousands of children, including those who have been displaced by recent violence in North Kivu.

Since March 2022, more than one million people have fled the fighting linked to the resurgence of violence between various armed groups in North Kivu province in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Hundreds of thousands of them currently live in dire conditions in overcrowded camps in Goma and its surrounding area.

Between July and October 2023, MSF teams alongside the MoH, vaccinated some 35,000 children under the age of five, with eight vaccines against 11 diseases including; diphtheria, hepatitis, whooping cough, pneumonia, polio and tuberculosis. The campaign took place across 16 vaccination sites in Bulengo, Lushagala, Shabindu and Rusayo displacement camps in Goma where MSF works and targeted both the displaced and host communities.