Current Crises

International Medical Corps (IMC) is one of the world’s fastest and most effective crisis response agencies, working globally to provide critical, lifesaving care for vulnerable populations in areas ravaged by war and disaster and help them get back on their feet.

International Medical Corps is now providing emergency interventions in:

Myanmar, where as many as 10,000 are feared dead and hundreds of thousands displaced, after Cyclone Nargis pummeled five areas, including its largest city, Rangoon. With thousands more lacking vital resources, like clean water and food, International Medical Corps (IMC) is mobilizing resources to respond with emergency relief to the survivors.

As the food crisis worsens, International Medical Corps continues to run nutrition programs from over 200 sites in 10 countries and serves more than 35,000 beneficiaries each month. Its programs involve a multi-tiered approach which uses therapeutic and supplemental feeding to treat individuals – most often children – with moderate to severe malnutrition.

In Sudan, where the Darfur crisis is widely recognized as the worst humanitarian emergency in the world today. Continuing violence, coupled with the resulting refugee crisis in impoverished eastern Chad—where more than 200,000 Darfurians have fled since 2003—puts huge swaths of the population at grave risk for malnutrition, dehydration, and disease. International Medical Corps is also working in South Sudan, where a protracted, north-south civil war cost the lives of 1.5 million people and forced four million others to flee their homes and livelihoods. A fragile peace was established in 2005, but the people there require help meeting basic needs and beginning the reconstruction process.

In Kenya, a disputed national election inflamed underlying political and tribal tensions across the country, triggering widespread violent protests that have left 500 people dead and another 250,000 displaced, many in overcrowded resettlement camps. With 60,000 displaced in the capital of Nairobi - 5,000 resettling in the city’s Jamhuri Park alone - the U.N. estimates that half a million people will be in need of humanitarian assistance, including primary health care, specialized TB and HIV support, food, and clean water.

Millions of displaced Iraqis need urgent assistance. As one of the few NGOs working in Iraq, International Medical Corps believes that now is the time to advance efforts to help the Iraqi people, particularly the more than four million who have been forced to leave their homes. Inside Iraq, people face massive unemployment and lack of basic services like water, health, sanitation, and educational. Outside of Iraq, refugees find their situations becoming increasingly more precarious in light of dwindling resources and opportunities.

Somalia, already suffering from the effects of an ongoing drought and recent widespread flooding, the fight for political power between militias and transitional government forces have caused the displacement of 750,000 people in Somalia. Because of the fighting, extreme weather, and lack of jobs, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization estimates that some 3.6 million Somalis—about a third of the country—are now in need of international assistance.

In the Central African Republic, the ongoing violence in northeastern CAR has depopulated entire areas and left the resource-poor region in desperate need of assistance. Up to 95 percent of the northeast’s population have fled their homes and are now without shelter, clean water, medical assistance, or sufficient food.

Northern Uganda’s humanitarian crisis is perhaps the most underreported in the world. Due to a long-running civil war, tens of thousands of innocent civilians have been killed or mutilated. Twenty thousand children have been abducted, forced into combat, and subjected to rape and torture. More than 1.6 million have been displaced. Those affected need access to primary and mental health care and basics such as food, clean water, and shelter.