Our Stories

Australian Doctors for Africa has won the 2023 AAMEG The Change-Maker Award for a Not-For-Profit/Charity (sponsored by Perenti) for our Madagascar Clubfoot Program!  This program changes the lives of children and their families. Congratulations and thanks to the...

The Board of Australian Doctors for Africa adopted a new five year Strategic Plan 2023-28, following a successful planning workshop attended by supporters, volunteers, Board members and staff. The Plan will guide the organisation’s activities over the next five years...

Donated medical equipment – including 23 hospital beds and mattresses, disabled children wheelchairs, BP monitors, ventilators, PPE and medical consumables - has arrived at the University Hospital Andrainjato, Fianarantsoa, in regional Madagascar. “It is with great...

Thanks to the help of volunteers, over a busy three weeks in June we packed three sea containers of donated medical equipment for partner hospitals in East Africa: Ayder Referral Hospital in Mekelle, in northern Ethiopia, and two for Madagascar – for regional public...

ADFA was successful in receiving funding from the Australian Government via a Direct Aid Project grant from the Australian Embassy in Ethiopia for the FEMALE ORTHOPAEDIC EMPOWERMENT PROJECT (FOEP) to be implemented in Ethiopia. FOEP aims to contribute to the creation...

In the last few months we have received a huge amount of donated equipment and consumables.  Massive thanks to: Fremantle, The Mount and SJOG Mt Lawley Hospitals for hospital beds & mattresses, patient trolleys & birthing beds SJOG Subiaco Hospital and Peel...

For the first time in over 3 years an Orthopaedic Team – surgeon Dr Li-On Lam, nurse Lucy Harris, orthopaedic registrar Dr Tom Christiner (recipient of Stryker Travelling Fellowship Award), and support/logistics officer Cherrie Genat - provided medical training and...

The team spent a very busy two weeks visiting three hospitals in two cities, completing 325 consultations and 63 surgical procedures, and providing training to 114 medical staff and students.  Stuart repaired many pieces of equipment, and serviced all the endoscopic...

World Clubfoot Day on 3 June raises awareness of clubfoot and the Ponseti method.  We thank and acknowledge the great work performed by our ADFA clubfoot staff in Madagascar and the team at Diversity Action Network in Somaliland, who make a huge difference in the...

After a 3 year hiatus, Dr Sue Chapman, volunteer urologist, was delighted to be returning to Madagascar to lead a Urology Surgical team which included Karen Grieves, Phil Smith and David Baguley. Over three weeks, the team performed 78 patient consultations and a...