AUSTRALIAN DOCTORS INTERNATIONAL (ADI) is a not-for-profit, non-government development aid organisation that is working to raise the standard of health for people in the remote Western Province of Papua New Guinea.
Our programs include:
- Deploying volunteer doctors to provide primary health care to remote communities
- Implementing public health programs to eliminate malaria and lymphatic filariasis (elephantiasis)
- Education and training to increase the capacity of local health workers
"Working for ADI in PNG is about the medicine, the people and the place.
It's about pathology you will never see in Australia and it's about
life experiences that you will never have at home."
- Dr. Kate Napthali, volunteer
ADI has chosen to work in Western Province, PNG, because of the region's poor status of health and high strategic importance to Australia.
Our programs are already well-established in the North Fly District. Here existing health services are deteriorating and difficult to access, or altogether closed down. Additionally, North Fly is home to about 10,000 refugees who are stateless and do not receive any health services.
ADI will start operations in the South Fly District in 2009. The District's close proximity to Australia carries the threat of cross-border incursion of communicable and vaccine-preventable diseases such as TB and influenza. Currently many PNG nationals are seeking health services in Queensland.
ADI is run by volunteers and relies on private sponsors, funding bodies, philanthropic organisations, corporations and community service groups to fund programs. We do not have any political or religious affiliations.
ADI is a signatory to the Australian Council for International Development (ACFID), approved by AusAID and has charitable tax deductibility status.
To learn more about ADI, please click here
To apply to volunteer with us, please click here
