Medicos del Mundo (Burkina Faso)

Medicos del Mundo

We started working in Burkina Faso in 2002, with projects to improve sexual and reproductive health through the fight against sexually transmitted infections (HIV / AIDS) and the reduction of maternal and infant mortality in the health district of Bogodogo, Region Central. Since 2012, work has been carried out in the Sahel region to reduce infant mortality linked to malnutrition by supporting the regional hospital and the Dori health district to improve the care of children with severe acute malnutrition. This intervention in nutrition was extended in 2016 to the South West region with activities in hospitals and community health centers.

We provide training in municipalities and management committees aimed at community health agents to improve their involvement in the health of their community. Our objective is to improve the prevention, the quality of medical care, especially at the ambulatory level and in hospital recovery centers, reinforcing the Burkina health system. We seek to fulfill the right to sexual and reproductive health, especially of young people, through sexual education, improvement of health services, family planning in the face of the prevention of premature pregnancies, gender violence, of early, child and forced marriages of female genital mutilation and excision.