Find Features - Find - Public Health - Sokoto, Nigeria (4) Médecins Sans Frontières
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Public Health - Sokoto, Nigeria
Médecins Sans Frontières
Oct 30, 2024

Project overview
Since 2014, Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has been supporting aid in Sokoto, Nigeria. Particularly the Sokoto Noma Hospital, with a programme of activities for people affected by Noma, including Noma survivors and their families. Noma, a neglected and little-known non-contagious disease, mostly affects children under five living in poverty.
It starts as an inflammation of the gums, similar to a small mouth ulcer. In just two weeks the infection starts to destroy bone and tissue, potentially affecting the jaw, lips, cheeks, nose or eyes, leaving survivors with physical consequences including pain, breathing complications and difficulties eating. Noma has a strikingly high mortality rate, and those who do survive are left with life-changing facial disfigurements.
Four times a year, a team of international surgeons, anaesthesiologists and nurses travel to Sokoto Noma Hospital to operate on Noma survivors. The hospital, run in collaboration with the Nigerian Ministry of Health, also focuses on community outreach, active case finding in the region, health promotion and mental health support. Better maps are needed in particular to support these community health activities.
643
km2
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Contributors
Project Completion
100% completed
Last updated: Oct 13, 2025
Download the data
Below you'll find the data downloads for this MapSwipe project, including a GeoJSON file that can be imported into the HOT Tasking Manager for more detailed mapping of the area. If you need more information or if you have a special request related to MapSwipe data get in contact with the team at the Heidelberg Institute for Geoinformation Technology
Aggregated Results
Aggregated Results. This gives you the unfiltered MapSwipe results aggregated on the task level. This is most suited if you want to apply some custom data processing with the MapSwipe data, e.g. select only specific tasks. Check our documentation for more details. (Note that you need to unzip this .gz file before you can use it.)
GZIP
0.9 MB
Aggregated Results (with Geometry)
Aggregated Results. This gives you the unfiltered MapSwipe results aggregated on the task level. This is most suited if you want to apply some custom data processing with the MapSwipe data, e.g. select only specific tasks. Check our documentation for more details. (Note that you need to unzip this .gz file before you can use it.)
GZIP
0.9 MB
Groups
Groups. (Note that you need to unzip this .gz file before you can use it.)
GZIP
2.4 kB
History
History
CSV
0.6 kB
Results
This gives you the unfiltered MapSwipe results. (Note that you need to unzip this .gz file before you can use it.)
GZIP
0.6 MB
Tasks
Tasks. (Note that you need to unzip this .gz file before you can use it.)
GZIP
0.8 MB
Users
This dataset contains information on the individual contributions per user. This tells you for instance the most active users of this project. (Note that you need to unzip this .gz file before you can use it.)
GZIP
3.9 kB
Area of Interest
This dataset contains information on the project region.
GEOJSON
7.8 kB
HOT Tasking Manager Geometries
This dataset contains shapes that are ready to use in the HOT Tasking Manager. Currently, the geometries consist of maximum 15 MapSwipe Tasks, where at least 35% of all users indicated the presence of a building by classifying as "yes" or "maybe"
GEOJSON
0.2 MB
Moderate to High Agreement Yes Maybe Geometries
This dataset contains all results where at least 35% of users submitted a "yes" or "maybe" classification. The output dataset depicts the union of all selected results.
GEOJSON
0.3 MB
Our license
This project is part of the OpenStreetMap community. The goal is high-quality geographical data, freely accessible and available to everyone. OSM’s reciprocal license protects the data from being appropriated by services that do not share back to OSM.
MapSwipe is released under a "liberal" non-reciprocal license (Creative Commons Attribution). Whenever you want to use the data, just make sure to credit the MapSwipe contributors.