Physicians for Peace

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Physicians for Peace was founded in 1989, dedicated to the ideal that
health care in the developing world can best be improved by providing
training and education to health care professionals in those countries.
When we send one volunteer medical professional overseas, that person
might train 10 of their peers in-country, who will later heal thousands or
tens of thousands of patients in the world’s most underserved populations.

By focusing on long-term, sustainable, replicable medical education and
training, we send teams of medical volunteers — including physicians,
dentists, nurses, physical therapists, physician assistants and other
healthcare professionals — to places where their teaching and healing
skills are needed most. Since its inception, Physicians for Peace has
made hundreds of trips to Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Central America,
Eastern Europe, and the Middle East and beyond, changing the lives of
countless thousands of people along the way.

Staying from one to six weeks, Physicians for Peace teams trains local medical professionals in host countries. We have brought modern aspects of pediatric and family health care to people in places where such care had never before been available.We have partnered with humanitarian organizations, universities and governments to increase access to decent healthcare throughout the developing world.



	PFP provides education, clinical care, and medical supplies to countries with unmet needs and scarce resources. You can help us change lives today!

Awards and Credentials

Consultant Status -
ECOSOC of the United Nations

Better Business Bureau - Wise Giving Alliance

2008 Best of Norfolk Award -
Medical and Surgical Service Organizations
U.S. Local Business Association

Best of Norfolk Award

2008 Make the Difference Award -
Learning is an Art

2009 Health Care Heroes Award
for Community Service -
Inside Business Magazine

We have developed a number of specific, sustainable programs, each in response to a particular need
voiced by the nations that we visit. Each of these core programs follows specific methodologies, and can
be replicated in other nations facing similar health-care needs. These programs are:

• Walking Free – The Walking Free program provides education and training to medical professionals
involved in the treatment of amputees, fitting patients with prostheses, providing physical rehabilitation
and establishing sustainable prosthetic and rehabilitation centers in underserved regions.

• Burn Care - The Burn Care program trains in-country medical professionals to provide reconstructive
burn surgery and to develop prevention and treatment education programs. Additionally, the program
promotes the development of burn clinics, and training in the manufacture and use of burn
compression garments for burn treatment.

• Dental Care - The Physicians for Peace Dental Program works to enhance dental
treatment, dental student skills, public dental clinic services, and preventive dental-care techniques for
indigent patients.

• Seeing Clearly – The Seeing Clearly program provides education and training for medical professionals
and medical students who offer vision exams and vision treatment for indigent patients. Additionally,
eyeglass banks provide free or inexpensive prescription glasses to tens of thousands of patients.

• Midwifery - Physicians for Peace has created an educational training program focusing on midwives,
educating on issues such as abnormal labor, post partum hemorrhage, eclampsia, and basic neonatal
life support.

• Resource Mothers - The Resource Mothers program works in impoverished neighborhoods to train local mothers to work with pregnant adolescent girls, mentoring these young women in prenatal care, childbirth
and post-partum and newborn care.

• VVF Surgery – Physicians for Peace volunteers conduct regular missions to Nigeria to provide training, education and treatment for the devastating condition of Obstetric Fistula, caused when pregnant girls
and women suffer severe bodily trauma during life-threatening delivery.

• PALS/NALS Training - Prenatal and Neonatal Advanced Life Saving Training covers a wide range of
pediatric care techniques, from basic hygiene and infection control to IV therapy, developmental care, and
much more.

• Specialized Surgery – Many missions of Physicians for Peace focus on specific surgical needs outside of
our standing programs. These missions provide life-saving and life-changing surgeries in a reas such as
cleft palate reconstruction, open-heart surgery, and other areas.

The programs, missions and volunteers of Physicians for Peace transform the lives of countless
thousands of patients in some of the neediest regions of the world. But we can only carry out this work
with your support. Your gifts of time, materials and funding are what allow us to continue providing
critical care and education in the developing world. We thank you for that support.