Healthcare access for vulnerable populations

— A targeted solution to sustainably develop healthcare —

Primary health care, essential to sustainable growth in any healthcare landscape, is developing unevenly in the South.
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More than thirty years after the Declaration of Alma-Ata, which sought to protect and promote the health of all people by the year 2000, the declaration has clearly failed. Despite a good deal of progress, much of the world’s population has seen its state of health stagnate or even deteriorate. Access to medicines and treatment of infectious diseases, such as tuberculosis and malaria, remains problematic in many parts of the world. More than six million children under the age of five die each year from treatable or preventable diseases, and about 300,000 women succumb to complications in pregnancy, childbirth or postpartum (2012 WHO/World Bank/UNICEF report). The inequalities are stark indeed: Africa alone supports a quarter of the global burden of disease, and represents a tiny portion of the budget dedicated to health worldwide, according to a Médecins du Monde analysis based on the 2006 WHO report on health.

The Foundation strives to provide support to ensure that access to healthcare –a fundamental right for every human being – is recognised in the most vulnerable communities in emerging countries and people plunged in humanitarian crises due to conflicts or natural disasters. It has been working for two decades in Lebanon and has been providing support to women who are victims of sexual violencein the Democratic Republic of Congo and in Central African Republic.

Dr. Roch M’BÉTID, médecin gynécologue-obstétricien de l’hôpital de l’Amitié à Bangui en Centrafrique

More and more patients are coming to us for consultation.”

Dr. Roch M’BÉTID
Gynaecologist and obstetrician at the Amitié Hospital in Bangui in the Central African Republic, which houses the free care unit for victims of sexual and gender-based violence.

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Albinism awareness toolkit now available online

24/06/2025|

As part of the APPASAAS project, the Fondation Pierre Fabre is deploying various activities to strengthen the dissemination of verified educational information aimed at improving the protection, inclusion and referral of people with albinism to appropriate care structures.

Call for projects 2025 Support Fund for Associations of Persons with Abinism

19/05/2025|

To further its commitment to persons with albinism, the Fondation Pierre Fabre is launching a Support Fund for associations of persons with albinism and nonprofit organizations working on their behalf. This Call for Projects 2025 aims to support initiatives (project, activities, event) whose primary objective is to improve the health, rights or living conditions of persons with albinism in low- and middle-income countries.

Albinism in Africa: 18 months of mobilization with the APPASAAS project

12/05/2025|

Officially launched in October 2023 following co-funding approval from the French Development Agency, the project to improve protection, prevention and access to healthcare for people living with albinism in sub-Saharan Africa (APPASAAS) is continuing its roll-out in Côte d’Ivoire, Madagascar, Niger, Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo.