ILDI In Medicine

ILDI helps to improve access to medical care by partnering with local nonprofits to establish medical clinics, mobile clinic sites to remote villages, HIV Prevention programs, public health education programs, and training programs for traditional birth attendants.  By working with local health authorities and other local community health leaders, ILDI and its nonprofit partners in developing nations are able to provide low-cost healthcare to those who have traditionally been unable to afford healthcare.  ILDI's programs in medicine include:

• Medical Clinics - permanent, mobile and temporary or "bush" clinics.
• Public Health Education programs covering topics such as nutrition, preventive medicine, or methods of water purification.
• HIV Prevention programs, including functional literacy and microcredit services for participants.
• Targeted training for local traditional birth attendants (to handle births at homes in villages) and a referral system to medical facilities for pregnant women with potentially complicated medical issues.
• Implementation of the Newborn Survival Strategy, a low-cost, low-tech method for reducing newborn and maternal mortality in impoverished regions.
• Medical teams from developed nations to provide training for clinic and local healthcare staff in various health fields such as preventive medicine, dentistry, optometry, obstetrics and gynecology, internal medicine and pediatrics.