Open Directory - Society: Philanthropy: Medical Relief
See also: This category in other languages: - Helps children with disabilities in India by establishing orthopedic clinics, providing resources and training helping local doctors. Information on mission and recent work, with photos and online donations. - Community of professionals working to help Africans become self-sufficient in producing pharmaceuticals. - Working to build self-sustaining primary health care systems in rural Ecuador. Information on goals, history, and how to get involved. - Delivers medical and financial aid to needy people in a third world hospital in Gambia, West Africa. - A volunteer treatment center for the villagers of the Bhumethan district in Nepal. - Advocating to lower the prices of existing medicines, to bring abandoned drugs back into production, and to stimulate research and development for diseases that primarily affect the poor. Includes reports and accomplishments. From MSF. - Arranges housing, transportation, supplies and major equipment for medical and dental volunteers serving the Pacific Islands. - Nonprofit which specializes in designing and managing international health projects. Information on areas of expertise, past projects, and method of work. In English, French, and Spanish. - Medical outreach for indigent and isolated people in remote areas around the world. Membership is comprised of professionals from a wide range of backgrounds, disciplines, and locations. - Supplies equipment, training, and oral health services to hospitals, clinics, and dentists in the developing world. - Provides oral health for deprived communities with a primary focus on prevention and education. - Emergency dental care and education to the most impoverished and rural areas of Peru. Opportunities for volunteers and donations. - US-based. Sends shipments of medical equipment and supplies worldwide to help the victims of civil unrest, natural disasters and chronic poverty. - Collects unused medical supplies from United States hospitals and physicians, and ships them to hospitals and clinics developing countries. - UK-based charity working on emergency medical relief, extended medical relief and medical rehabilitation and medical education. Photos and information on projects, with how to donate or volunteer. - Medical care in developing countries with the support of medical volunteers. - Assist parents and caretakers of disabled children, or those with additional needs, with practical, affordable products to address every day issues. - California-based volunteer medical professionals and volunteers provide free health care to Mexico and Central American. Trip reports and volunteer opportunities. - US based group supplying physicians, dentists, nurses, chiropractors, and non-medical support volunteers to care for people worldwide who otherwise would never receive professional medical care. - Student-run organization dedicated to providing free health care to Mexico through monthly clinic trips with physicians, dentists, and other volunteers. - Raises operating and construction funds for pediatric hospitals and clinics. - Basic medical care to rural citizens of Bolivia. - A non-profit, volunteer, group of surgeons, anesthesiologists, nurse anesthetists, and registered nurses dedicated to providing surgical services to the needy in Haiti. Information on projects, facilities, and past trips. - A NGO providing long lasting insecticided bed nets to the people of Sierra Leone, Africa. - A Luxottica Group Foundation providing free eye care and glasses to people in need in US communities and around the world. - Facciliates travel, room and board for children and their guardian to the United States for medical and surgical care. - Dedicated to research and education for mitochondrial diseases. - Distributes to developing countries medicines, medical supplies and vaccines donated by Canadian industry. In English and French. - A Western Canada based volunteer organization providing quality medical care and equipment for the poor of Guatemala. Information on past trips, planned programs, fundraising, and organization leadership. - Global health and human rights organization working to build lasting access to health for excluded communities. - Provides health care in the Manang District of northern Nepal. - Students and medical professionals at the University of Michigan dedicated to improving health care in rural Honduras. - Non-profit-organization which aims to establish and maintain a mission hospital in the Peruvian Andes. - Dedicated to the cause of kidney failure patients in India. Includes information on situation in the country, organization's programs, and how to donate. - Dedicated to advancing the standards of care in oral and maxillofacial surgery worldwide through improved education and training. - A development organisation which works in developing countries to support their response to AIDS. - Global, humanitarian, nonprofit organization dedicated to saving lives and relieving suffering through health care training, relief and development programs. - Health care and training to save and rebuild lives. Emergency nutrition, water and sanitation services. Supports community participation and development. - Provides free reconstructive surgery in developing nations. - Building and sustaining medical clinics and training community health workers in South Sudan. - Nonprofit organization active in several countries in Africa teaching individuals to care for their own health needs and providing primary medical care. - Mission is to provide essential medicines, prevent and eradicate disease, and promote community health development. Includes program details and donation information. - Dharamsala Hospital Project Inc is a charity formed to assist with the building and funding of a hospital in Dharamsala. - Delivers surplus of medical supplies and equipment to hospitals in more than 70 nations. - An international medical and humanitarian aid organization. News, links to country sites, feature articles. (Also known as Doctors without Borders.) - Collects surplus medical supplies and equipment in developed nations to be distributed to institutions in developing countries. - Project to send material aid and medical supplies to East Timor. It is looking for monetary donations to rebuild clinics and provide local training of the Timorese. - Works to improve the health of Palestinians through humanitarian and development assistance, Site is in English and French. - Donates medical services and supplies to qualified organizations in developing countries. - A nonsectarian volunteer group of more than 200 doctors, nurses and others who work to improve the health of the poorest of the poor throughout the world. - Organization that works to provide focused medical aid to a loving people in need of help in the country of Mali, West Africa. - An international organisation related to the World Health Organisation dealing with health care development. It actively supports the concept of primary and community-based health care. - Volunteer relief organization providing medical and humanitarian services locally and abroad. Has information on activities, donation centres, news articles and newsletter subscription. - Mission is to improve community health by creating self-sustaining primary health care projects worldwide. Information on accomplishments, method of work, and how to get involved. - Surgical and medical eye care on the Island of Nevis. Volunteer doctors and local nurses work together with the help of donations and support from the local government. - Focuses on eye health in the developing world. Volunteer opportunities, Matching grant challenge for clubs and groups. - Registered Canadian non-profit organization which oversees volunteer surgical teams providing free reconstructive surgery to children in under-served countries with cleft lip and palate, and burn scars. - Not-for-profit, volunteer medical services organization that provides reconstructive facial surgery to indigent children and young adults in 16 developing countries and in the United States. Based in Norfolk, Virginia. - Sends annual missions and supports two permanent medical missions to the Philippines. Volunteers from the US local communities work together to provide free medical care. - Provides sustainable health-care to those in need while increasing accessibility to global medical missions. - Works to improve the health of poor communities in conjunction with other organizations. Has projects involving drugs for Tuberculosis and HIV. Partner projects are in Haiti, Peru, Mexico, Honduras, and Boston. - Arranges treatment for children with life-threatening illnesses, from East Europe and Central Asia. - Volunteer organization of reconstructive surgeons providing plastic surgery for children. - American Academy of Pediatrics California Chapter 4 provides health-care assistance, focusing on needy rural areas and children at risk. Includes trip application, reports from previous missions, and newsletter. - Homeopathic primary health care to poor families in Mexico’s Yucatán. Information in English and Spanish. - The only medical relief organization providing aid in war zones that other relief agencies won't go to. - Volunteers provide free medical, dental and optometric services to remote areas, primarily Guyana and Nepal. - US-based fundraising arm of Sankara Eye Society, working on prevention of blindness in India. Information on mission, past achievements, and how to donate. - International non-governmental organization whose mission is the elimination of preventable and treatable blindness. - Non-profit organization providing medically-necessary, orthodontic treatment for children from low-income families. - Health care for curable blindness in India and other developing nations. - Working with International Medical Foundation to provide medical care in Uganda. - Offering treatment and prevention of obstetric fistula through support of the Addis Ababa Fistula Hospital in Ethiopia, as well as programs across the country. Includes details of the hospital, and information about the fundraising and educational work of the organization. - Undertaking community-based work with blindness prevention organisations in Asia, Africa and the Pacific. Includes foundation history, details of projects, information on donating and volunteering, and list of regional contacts. - Works to prevent and manage diseases in economically depressed areas of our world. - US-based nonprofit organization seeking to improve the Republic of Guinea's preventative, primary and emergency health care services. Gives analysis of current conditions, program goals, and information on foundation administration. - A multi-faith community of professionals dedicated to caring for persons in spirit, mind, and body. Committed to excellence and leadership in pastoral care, education, and research. - A US registered non-profit that is working to enable the disabled with limited financial means around the world. Provides necessary and appropriate prostheses, orthotics and durable medical devices. - A German organisation offering support, mainly medical and educational, of poor people in the Tiruvannamalai area of South India. - An international charity that provides cleft palate surgery to those in need, as well as providing training to doctors in the region. Includes news, photograph gallery and project details. - Key elements in Africa include medical care to children in the villages of Malawi, caring for the war orphans of the DRC, providing ARVs for children with AIDS and delivering a program targeting a reduction in the incidence of transmission of the HIV virus from mother to child. - NGO working to provide medical treatment for seriously ill patients in Mtwara, Tanzania - UCLA Operation Mend offers charitable medical services to wounded soldiers. - College football players working together to raise awareness and funding for rare diseases. - Nonprofit organization which carries out medically based technical projects in Romanian hospitals aiming to bring hospitals' facilities up to a western level. Site contains project information. - Support rural health clinics with infrastructural development, equipment and supplies. Direct medical help for individuals in The Gambia. - Nonprofit relief organization with a state and federally licensed warehouse to receive and distribute dental supplies and equipment to dental healthcare projects around the world. - International medical relief team which provides medical and dental services to needy people.
