How We Help:
Medicine and
Preventative Care
In places where access to routine healthcare is practically non-existent, prevention becomes more important than ever.
Here in Canada, we take things like the eradication of polio and measles for granted, and we only concern ourselves with things like cholera and malaria when we plan vacations in developing or subtropical countries.
But for the people living there – especially in the remote and isolated communities – these preventable diseases can have a devastating impact on entire populations.
MAF works with local partners to reach thousands of communities with practical help.
- MAF delivers innoculations to remote areas, protecting children against polio, diphtheria, measles, and other illnesses. The speed and efficiency of MAF aircraft allows this precious cargo to reach remote villages in hours instead of days, ensuring that the “cold chain” is not broken and medicines remain effective.
- MAF helps deliver antimalarial drugs, testing equipment, and medical and technical teams, as well as mosquito netting to help prevent the onset of this disease in the first place.
- We transport nurse practitioners and other healthcare workers to remote communities, to provide training in disease prevention and sanitation.
- In places like the DR Congo, MAF has worked with agencies like the World Health Organization (WHO) to combat the spread of infectious disease like Ebola.
Click on the stories below to learn more about how MAF serves to provide Medicine and Preventative Care
Mothers like Udayi can ‘build healthier families’ with rural nutrition
A monthly maternal health clinic in a remote Tanzanian village, is strengthening families by providing training to help improve the health and well-being of the community.
20 years of help, hope, and healing with MAF’s Daniel Loewen-Rudgers
For two decades, pilot Daniel Loewen-Rudgers – who is head of MAF operations for Kenya and South Sudan – has medevacked sick patients, delivered lifesaving supplies, and enabled medics to treat hundreds of patients from isolated villages. MAF’s Claire Gilderson looks back at his incredible career
With MAF, four-day drive into Sahara becomes six-hour flight
For long-serving mission partners Mark and Andrea Hotchkin, MAF flights are not just about saving time, they are instrumental in enabling their mission.
