January 17, 2006 Medical outreach to Zavora with Mercy Air and MSCF By Matthias Reuter, Mercy Air Heli-Ops "The Global Positioning System in the instrument panel of the helicopter is confirming what I am seeing through the tropical humid and hot air in the distance. The old Portuguese built lighthouse near Zavora on the eastern shore of southern Mozambique is coming into sight. “Our camp is only 4 kilometers along the sand road from the lighthouse”, I remember Johan Claassen from Doctors for life describing to me on the phone some weeks earlier. There were coconut and palm trees every where! ...[more]
November 25, 2005 Forthcoming outreaches.... The continuation of the Zavora Clinic is vital and we thank all those who volunteered this year. During November another Dutch team (construction and medical) are continuing the work and in December, medical students from MSCF, together with other Health professionals, will stay untill the end of the year. If you would like to assist us in 2006, please contact us ASAP at a2a@dfl.org.za
November 24, 2005 Angola, Cuito Cunevale Outreach Doctors For Life International, together with a medical group from Times Square Church in New York, returned safely to ther homes after a 3 week outreach to Cuito Cunevale during October ...[more]
October 31, 2005 Zavora Clinic Update During October another medical team continued the work at DFL's clinic in Mozambique, Zavora. You too can join an outreach to help these needy people. Find out more about this wonderful work by reading their report ...[more]
September 19, 2005 Aid to Africa: Angola Outreaches Doctors For Life International, together with a medical group from Times Square Church, NY, will be going back to the war torn areas of Angola between 19 September and 13 October. Watch this space for an update
September 3, 2005 Eastern Cape Outreach Between 22 and 27 August 2005, Aid to Africa (A2A), the mobile clinic initiative from Doctors For Life International (DFL) went on another medical outreach. We joined hands with retired Dr. Gene Smith (MD) and his wife Arlene, who flew all the way from the USA to help these people. ...[more]
July 12, 2005 Angola, MenongueOutreach: Its people are warm and friendly despite the fact that they live in a crippled, war-ravaged country. Aid to Africa pulled its resources together and assembled a team of ten to go into one of the most war-torn areas of Angola, the Cuando Cubango province...[more]
April 25, 2005 World Malaria Day Doctors For Life (DFL) marked the observance of Africa Malaria Day by continues development of anti-malaria medicine. For this reason DFL are produced and bottled MALARLIFE capsules containing the extremely effective Artemisinin from the Artemisia Annua plant. We are please to contribute to World Malaria Day by making MALARLIFE affordable and available to 3d world countries. MALARLIFE sales benefit one of DFL's programmes, "Aid to Africa "; where MALARLIFE and many other medicines are freely distributed to the needy communities, during mobile medical outreaches to countries like, South Africa , Angola , Mozambique , Zambia ...[more]
April 13, 2005 DFL's Medical Outreach to Angola: Marburg virus continues According to reports from the WHO, BBC and VOA, the marburg virus continues to spread in the northern parts of Angola. DFL started planning a outreach to the southern parts (Cuito Cunevale) approxiately 3 months ago, before the outbreak publicly announced. Depending on the situation in Angola, the dates are still between 29 April -21 may 2005 ...[more]
December 22, 2004 Student outreach to Zavora Between 5 and 16 December, a group of 8 medical students, 3 medical doctors, a lecturer from the Univarsity of Natal, and and other volunteers joined Doctors for Life on an outreach to Zavora , Mozambique .
November 19, 2004 Aid to Africa: Reflections on Mozambique Over the past few weeks, Doctors for Life continued to hold the clinic at Zavora , Mozambique . This was part of the groundwork in starting a permanent structures clinic at this site (see building plans).
November 18, 2004 Aid to Africa: Update on Clinic in Zavora, Mozambique Helena, a volunteer from Germany, joined the first team to do Health Care work at the DFL clinic in Zavora, which started from September 2004 . She recently returned to South Africa and wrote the following about her experiences...
October 19, 2004 Bringing medical relief to SA communities and DFL orphan centres Six medical team members from the USA, a dental assistant from Germany, Dr Albu van Eeden (CEO of DFL) and a combination of volunteers and translators made up the team of 12 people who all shared in the compassion to reach the needy communities and orphan centres in South Africa with medical care.
