Zimbabwe

An MSF team heads to a village cut off by damage caused by Cylone Idai in Chimanimani to assess health needs and distribute medicines to clinics and village health workers. Zimbabwe, March 2019. © MSF

MSF continues to address gaps in healthcare in Zimbabwe, where chronic underfunding of the health sector has led to shortages of essential medicines and supplies and deteriorating facilities.

Although the number of airstrikes decreased in the last quarter of 2019, ground fighting continued across several governorates throughout the year, as frontlines shifted, causing waves of displacement and many thousands of casualties…

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