Medical volunteering in South America is an excellent option for those wanting to experience third world medicine hands on.
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Visit the following organizations offering medical volunteering opportunities in South America:
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.
