Doctors of the World-USA (DOW) is an international health and human rights organization whose mission is to create sustainable access to health care for communities around the globe. Working in partnership with the communities we serve, our projects empower health workers and others to build long-term, locally owned solutions, while combating the stigma, discrimination, and the deprivation of liberties that deny women, children, minorities, and others access to life-saving care.
DOW projects focus on TB & HIV/AIDS, women’s health, orphans and vulnerable children, and survivors of human rights abuses. Through systems development, trainings, community mobilization, and advocacy, we strive to not only treat diseases and epidemics but to address the root causes of health crises.
We are 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.
To date, 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.
Click below to watch DOW's latest video from our HIV Project in Kenya. People living with HIV and health workers in the rural West Pokot district discuss the difficulties of accessing and providing health care in an isolated region, and the enormous strides that have been made since Doctors of the World-USA launched the first project in the district to build comprehensive and lasting access to HIV/AIDS services.