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Welcome
to ADI

For over 20 years, ADI has been sending volunteer doctors to provide clinical and allied health services in remote areas of Papua New Guinea and providing education programs to build capacity of rural health workers.

How we
help PNG

We improve the health of rural PNG by
vaccinating 10,000+ children each year

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How we
help PNG

We improve the health of rural PNG by upskilling
1000 rural health workers

How we
help PNG

We improve the health of rural PNG by
developing Health Hubs linking remote communities

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Our Vision

A healthier rural and remote Papua New Guinea.

Our Mission

ADI is committed to working with partners to provide and strengthen services in rural and remote communities of PNG.

ADI strives for sustainable healthcare solutions, ensuring every individual, regardless of location, has access to quality healthcare and a healthy future.

Our Impact

  • Emergency obstetric training – saving mothers lives.
  • Immunisation of more than 10,000 children each year.
  • Annually 33,000+ community members reach with public health education & awareness.
  • Annually 300 health workers trained.
  • Annually 55,000 clinical, counselling and screening services.
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Volunteer Testimonials

Doctor

Dr Alison Brown

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Working in PNG is varied and very different from Australian general practice. The attainment of good health or access to healthcare is not easy in this resource constrained environment but gaining an understanding of the complex factors affecting these health outcomes has been invaluable.

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DR MERRILEE FRANKISH

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We are so lucky to live in Australia, yet we seem blissfully unaware of our privilege. Within two hours flight from my home I can step onto a totally different planet, a parallel universe, it is surreal. I am so blessed to have been given the opportunity to work in PNG, to ignite a passion for teaching, to have received in abundance and to have pushed myself beyond my limits.

Volunteer Testimonials

Doctor

Dr Chris McCall

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Imagine a place where to go almost anywhere, you have to travel by water, through a maze of confusing rivers and lake channels, around floating stands of grass that move - but boat fuel is hard to come by and expensive.

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Doctor

Dr Bruce Slonim MBBS

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Always helping, always teaching, Dr Bruce’s vast experience as an Australian country GP improved the lives of countless remote New Irelanders through the delivery of clinical services and the education of their health workers. Bruce introduced triage to patrol teams to improve efficiency and was instrumental with ADI’s early family planning work.

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