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Annual Report 2024

Doctors with Africa CUAMM has spent 74 years strengthening health systems in Africa's most fragile contexts. Their 2024 annual report covers work across Angola, Côte d'Ivoire, Ethiopia, Mozambique, Central African Republic, Sierra Leone, South Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda — plus Ukraine. Highlights include a new NICU in Uganda, a maternity ward in South Sudan, flood emergency response in Ethiopia, and the prestigious Feltrinelli Prize for humanitarian excellence.

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Maternal and child health, nutrition, infectious disease, chronic disease, health worker training, hospital strengthening, ambulance networks, mental health, NICU, neonatal care, crisis response

Key Metrics

Key Metric 1 Active in 8 countries across Africa plus Ukraine; 74 years of operation
Key Metric 2 New NICU opened at Matany Hospital, Uganda; maternity ward opened in Adior, South Sudan
Key Metric 3 Antonio Feltrinelli 2024 prize awarded by Accademia dei Lincei — referred to as the Italian Nobel Prize

Key Outcomes

  • 8 ambulances connecting peripheral facilities to 3 hospitals in South Sudan; new maternity ward in Adior serving previously non-functional community
  • Mental health services for children and adolescents in Beira, Mozambique; HIV prevention and treatment support
  • Emergency flood response in South Omo, Ethiopia; new paramedical school under construction in Bossangoa, Central African Republic

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International

Impact Snapshot
Key Metric 1
Total income £18,180,000 and total expenditure £18,560,000 (year ended 31 December 2024, charity no. 1084958 England/Wales and SC039654 Scotland); in 2024 spent £3.8m on...
Key Metric 2
700+ members supported through in-person visits and support calls in 2025; 697 support grants allocated in 2025 for essential items including specialist clothing, cooling...
Key Metric 3
Largest global investment in EB research to date: multi-million-pound drug repurposing trial provisionally agreed with LifeArc partner at Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation...
£34,000 raised in 2025 winter appeal supporting families like Darcie's with specialist items, emotional support and research; 697 support grants delivered in 2025; first Members Connect event in Northern Ireland; EB Priorities Setting Partnership study completed providing global research roadmap
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22,507 households helped through RBL casework and specialist support services across 66 countries
Key Metric 2
22,600 grants given to those in need, totalling £11.8 million
Key Metric 3
733 beneficiaries represented at tribunals, resulting in £24.5 million in War Pensions awards
1,548 new families living with dementia supported by RBL Admiral Nurses service
Impact Snapshot
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3,600 blind veterans received support across the UK; 447 new blind veterans started receiving support in 2024/25
Key Metric 2
1,598 referrals to rehabilitation services completed; 313 veterans received assistive technology training
Key Metric 3
997 volunteers donated 26,824 hours of support; befriending service awarded Quality in Befriending Excellence — one of only 11 organisations in the UK to...
1,831 National Creative Wellbeing Project packs issued to help veterans reconnect with creativity and independence
Impact Snapshot
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349,000+ people completed the Know Your Risk tool to assess their risk of type 2 diabetes in 2024
Key Metric 2
£4 million invested in 17 new research projects; total active grants portfolio worth over £45 million
Key Metric 3
32% of people completing NHS England's Path to Remission programme — which Diabetes UK campaigned for — put their type 2 diabetes into remission
Type 1 Diabetes Grand Challenge invested over £23 million in 19 projects across 161 experts from 47 institutions in 8 countries since 2022