Following a new measles outbreak in the Ingende health zone, Equateur province, Médecins Sans Frontières sent an emergency team in April 2024 to treat patients and organise a vaccination campaign.

The area has many hard-to-reach localities which had not been covered by the Ministry's vaccination campaign carried out at the end of 2023. The MSF emergency intervention made sure that the most remote communities were reached in order to stop the spread of this deadly virus.

The important logistics used to reach these communities and the emphasis placed on greater inclusion of indigenous peoples have paid off: 62,645 children aged between 6 months and 9 years were vaccinated in the 18 health areas in the health zone, with post-survey vaccination coverage of 96.7%.

In addition to this vaccination response, MSF teams treated 649 patients with measles, 607 cases of malaria and 422 cases of severe acute malnutritionThe borehole at the General Reference Hospital (HGR) in Ingende, which had not been working for over 6 months, was also rehabilitated.