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Burundian women find care -- and in an IRC health clinic in Tanzania

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Photo: Anna Kim/IRC
Reproductive health services—including access to family planning—are especially vital in areas affected by crisis. Here's a look into an IRC-run health clinic in Tanzania providing critical services to Burundian refugees.

Miburo,* 35 years old, worked as a farmer and her husband as a bicycle repairman in Burundi, where a political crisis turned deadly has forced nearly 200,000 people to flee their homes this year. When neighbors from her village began talking about threats of violence in June, she and her family fled to Tanzania—to a sprawling, densely populated refugee camp that recently has become the third largest in the world.

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