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Promoting health care as a human right, catalogs medical aid and relief work organizations, reviewing and summarizing available resources.
http://www.nd.edu/~ghi/aid.htm

Nonprofit which specializes in designing and managing international health projects. Information on areas of expertise, past projects, and method of work. In English, French, and Spanish.
http://www.ccisd.org/

Assists South Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo, to improve their health and nutrition and to access better medical care and training. Program descriptions, photos of facilities, and how to donate or volunteer. In English, French, and Dutch.
http://www.aidwalungu.org

An emergency humanitarian health care relief organization in Albania, Angola, Bosnia, Burundi, Georgia, Kenya, Kosovo, Honduras, Somalia, and Sudan employing doctors, nurses and program managers and logisticians to provide emergency care.
http://www.imc-la.org/

Nonprofit organization active in several countries in Africa teaching individuals to care for their own health needs and providing primary medical care.
http://www.lalmba.org

An organization with a mission is to improve the health of Palestinians through humanitarian and development assistance, Site is in English and French.
http://www.ampcan.org/

International organization working to create sustainable medical programs to those in the greatest need in the US and abroad. Has current projects in Chiapas, Kosovo, Russia, South Africa, US, Vietnam.
http://www.doctorsoftheworld.org/

Nonprofit relief organization with a state and federally licensed warehouse to receive and distribute dental supplies and equipment to dental healthcare projects around the world.
http://www.dentalrelief.com/

Providing charitable surgical procedures and medical services in the US and abroad. FAMI also promotes medical and technical education here and abroad.
http://IFAMI.COM

Organization working with people who have leprosy. Raises funds for crippled childrens polio surgery. Donors needed for street children rehabilitation. Also accepts other help from volunteers.
http://www.zyworld.com/newhopeindia/

An international organisation related to the World Health Organisation dealing with health care development. It actively supports the concept of primary and community-based health care.
http://www.medicusmundi.org/

Volunteer health care professionals available to countries requiring assistance on an urgent basis and to other charitable organizations doing medical relief work worldwide.
http://www.mirr.org

The only medical relief organization providing aid in war zones that other relief agencies won't go to.
http://www.RefugeeRelief.org

Works to improve the health of poor communities in conjunction with other organizations. Has projects involving drugs for Tuberculosis and HIV. Partner projects are in Haiti, Peru, Mexico, Honduras, and Boston.
http://www.pih.org

Provides free reconstructive surgery in developing nations.
http://www.interplast.org

US-based. Sends shipments of medical equipment and supplies worldwide to help the victims of civil unrest, natural disasters and chronic poverty.
http://www.directrelief.org/

Not-for-profit, volunteer medical services organization that provides reconstructive facial surgery to indigent children and young adults in 16 developing countries and in the United States.
http://www.operationsmile.org

Registered Canadian non-profit organization which oversees volunteer surgical teams providing free reconstructive surgery to children in under-served countries with cleft lip and palate, and burn scars.
http://www.operationrainbowcanada.com

Delivers medical and financial aid to needy people in a third world hospital in Gambia, West Africa.
http://www.bansanghospitalappeal.com

A development organisation which works in developing countries to support their response to AIDS.
http://www.aidsalliance.org/

Collects surplus medical supplies and equipment in developed nations to be distributed to institutions in developing countries.
http://www.medisend.org/

Paris-based organisation which strives for long-term healthcare development in developing countries.
http://www.amifrance.org/pub_cgi/pages.pl?id=1&lang=en

Physicians and nurses providing medical care to women and children who are victims of war. Information on where and how working, with how to donate or volunteer.
http://www.medpeace.org

Advocating to lower the prices of existing medicines, to bring abandoned drugs back into production, and to stimulate R&D for diseases that primarily affect the poor. Includes reports and accomplishments.
http://www.accessmed-msf.org/

Mission is to improve community health by creating self-sustaining primary health care projects worldwide. Information on accomplishments, method of work, and how to get involved.
http://www.mihv.org

UK-based charity working on emergency medical relief, extended medical relief and medical rehabilitation and medical education. Photos and information on projects, with how to donate or volunteer.
http://www.doctorsworldwide.org

American Academy of Pediatrics California Chapter 4 provides healthcare assistance, focusing on needy rural areas and children at risk. Includes trip application, reports from previous missions, and newsletter.
http://projectvietnam.net

Northern California-based volunteer teams of a doctor, dentist, or optometrist fly on 4-day trips monthly to Baja Mexico to provide health care. Read reports of trips, and view volunteer opportunities.
http://www.flyingdocs.org/

Consultancy agency providing assistance to governmental and humanitarian organisations in the United Kingdom and Africa. Gives advices to governments and non-governmental organizations, provides training and publishes information on sexual and reproductive health (contraception and HIV/AIDS prevention).
http://www.jsiuk.com/

A German organisation offering support, mainly medical and educational, of poor people in the Tiruvannamalai area of South India.
http://www.shanthimalai.org/

Nonprofit organization which carries out medically based technical projects in Romanian hospitals aiming to bring hospitals' facilities up to a western level. Site contains project information.
http://www.stichtingwerkgroepurgenta.nl/

Mission is to provide essential medicines, prevent and eradicate disease, and promote community health development. Includes program details and donation information.
http://www.map.org/

An independent and international non-governmental organisation dedicated to mobilising society against AIDS, tuberculosis (TB), malaria and other diseases of poverty. Based in Switzerland.
http://www.massiveeffort.org