Medici per i Diritti Umani – MEDU (Doctors for Human Rights – Italy) was founded on 2004 in Rome with the purpose of bring health to vulnerable population and denounce the violations of human rights and, in particular, on the exclusion from the right to health.
One of the association's teams works in Agadez, Niger.
Called "the city of migrants", Agadez welcomes thousands of migrants, from Sudan in particular, in the humanitarian field set up by UNHCR, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.
The psychologist Anna Dessì is the manager of Medu's project in Algadez and explains the work of the team in the refugee camp.
