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Diversity Action Network was pleased to receive examination beds, exercise bikes, treadmill, arm exercise machines, walking frames, crutches, and wheelchairs, to improve their adult mobility programs. Long term partner DAN screens and treats children with clubfoot in...

Gratitude to the volunteer Gastroenterology team of Dr Digby Cullen (team lead, Gastroenterologist); nurses Jacki Crock, Katy Smith, and Joemar Bermejo; Dr Sherman Picardo (Gastroenterologist); and Stuart Smithers (bio-medical technician) for providing training and...

Huge thanks to the volunteer Urology team of Dr Sue Chapman (Team Leader/Urologist), Karen Grieves (Theatre Nurse), Dr Jamal Tashkandi (Anaesthetist) and Dr Michael Wines (Urologist). The assignment was a great success, with a number of challenges due to flight...

We welcome Associate Professor Rochelle Spencer to the Board of Australian Doctors for Africa with great enthusiasm. Rochelle brings a wealth of international development experience to the Board, and has a long relationship with Africa having first worked on the East...

World Clubfoot Day on 3 June raises awareness of clubfoot and the Ponseti method.  Around 180,000 babies worldwide are born with clubfoot each year, and untreated clubfoot is one of the leading causes of disability. We thank and acknowledge the great work performed by...

Huge thanks to medical volunteers, Dr Angus Keogh (Orthopaedic Surgeon), Sandra Langman (Theatre Nurse) and Amy Staples (Clinical Nurse Consultant) for providing two weeks of training at the Hawassa University Hospital in regional Ethiopia. Training was the main focus...

As part of ADFA's Female Orthopaedic Empowerment (FOE) Program, three female Ethiopian orthopaedic surgeons recently received support to attend training courses/conferences: Dr Bethel Zeleke - the British Society for Children’s Orthopaedic Surgery (BSCOS) 2024 AGM and...

ADFA has extended its scholarship program by offering 12-month fellowships for Ethiopian orthopaedic surgeons at the Ganga Hospital, Coimbatore, India. Congratulations to the successful 2024 applicants: *  Dr Bruh Kefale Gebreyes from Haramaya University Hiwot Fana...

A sea container full of donated medical equipment sailed recently for Somaliland hospitals and rural mother and child clinics. Over 400 items were loaded including hospital beds, mattresses, examination tables, birthing beds, incubators, PPE, scrubs, physiotherapy...

The University of Gondar Hospital is a 400 bed university hospital with a large orthopaedics and traumatology department.  Following a site visit by ADFA’s CEO, Dr Graham Forward, in March 2023, it was observed that the sanitation facilities of the orthopaedic ward...