Replicating a successful model for combating TB

DOW has recently expanded its efforts in Chiapas, Mexico, to combat high rates of TB within indigenous communities.  The project will replicate the successful model for TB control founded on partnerships, community mobilization, and advocacy that DOW succesfully developed working with Roma communities in Romania.

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Health and human rights are inextricably linked.

Doctors of the World-USA is an international health and human rights organization working to create sustainable access to health care for communities around the globe.

We believe that to cure sickness, you must fight the injustice that allows disease to flourish, epidemics to spread, and wounds to go unhealed.  We focus our efforts on health crises made worse by violations of human rights, and combat the stigma, violence, and deprivation of liberties suffered by those who are excluded and marginalized.  Our work begins by partnering with the communities we serve, and ends when our local partners have what they need to provide care to those who need it most.

Our priorities include:
TB and HIV/AIDS
Women’s Health
Orphans and Vulnerable Children
Survivors of Human Rights Abuses

DOW is currently active in Asia, Africa, Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, and the Americas, including a major human rights program in the United States.  DOW has worked in over 30 countries and communities where health is diminished or endangered by violations of human rights and civil liberties, and has mobilized the health sector - in the United States and internationally - to promote and protect these rights.