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AAMEG Change-Maker Award Winner!

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 dedicated clubfoot team in Madagascar, managed by Lucile Rasamison in Toliara, with clinical support by Dr Kate Stannage. Thanks to David McCoy, ADFA Board member,...

New ADFA 5 Year Strategic Plan

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 and focus on achieving the following outcomes: Overseas Medical Assignments: Vulnerable people (including women and children) have increased access to...

Equipment Donated to Regional Hospital in Madagascar

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 pleasure to inform you of the arrival of the materials which is intended for the equipment of the hospital and the new centre for the handling of traffic...

Three Sea Containers of Donated Medical Equipment Sailing to Africa!

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 hospitals in Fianarantsoa and Toliara, and supplies for our ADFA medical volunteer program. Nearly 600 items were loaded, including 63 hospital beds &...

Female Orthopaedic Empowerment Project, Ethiopia

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 of a conducive and supportive environment for women to achieve their goals in male dominated medical fields. FOEP is a mentorship program designed for junior...

Thanks for Donating Medical Equipment!

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 Health Campus – Olympus colonoscopes/gastroscopes AxisHealth – examination beds John Paxman at Meditech – many boxes of consumables Wheelchairs for...