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Medical Volunteering in Africa



Health Volunteering in Africa

Africa has long been the region most in need of medical volunteers.

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Visit the following organizations offering medical volunteering opportunities in Africa:

Catholic Medical Mission Board - A U.S.-based Catholic-charity focusing exclusively on global healthcare, particularly the well-being of women and children.

Child Family Health International - Offers service-learning programs in international health for medical, pre-medical, and nursing students.

Doctors Without Borders - Médecins Sans Frontières (also known as Doctors Without Borders or MSF) delivers emergency aid to victims of armed conflict, epidemics, and natural and man-made disasters, and to others who lack health care due to social or geographical isolation.

Doctor to Doctor - A nonprofit organization founded in Berkeley, California USA in 1994 which seeks to provide assistance to medical professionals in underserved places around the world.

Doctors of the World - Provides medical and humanitarian assistance to those in the greatest need in more than 20 nations.

Global Service Corps - Provides volunteer opportunities for people worldwide to live and work abroad in developing countries.

Health Volunteers Overseas - A private, non-profit, non-sectarian voluntary organization headquartered in the United States. HVO is dedicated to improving the availability and quality of health care in developing countries through training and education.

International Medical Volunteers - A clearing house for information between potential volunteers, volunteer organization and other medical people involved in medical assistance to the developing world.

Mission Doctors Association - Offering short term and long term medical volunteer opportunities in developing nations.

Amazon-Africa Aid - Offers dentists, physician, and other medicial professionals the opportunity to work with local organizations in the Amazon and Africa.

Article Series
This article is part 3 of a 3 part series. Other articles in this series are shown below:
  1. Gap Year Volunteering in Africa
  2. Volunteer in Zimbabwe
  3. Medical Volunteering in Africa