Physicians for Peace Joins Global ONE Campaign

NORFOLK, VA (09/24/2007)(readMedia)-- Physicians for Peace, an international organization focusing on medical education in developing nations, has been invited to join the ONE Campaign (http://www.one.org/about/), a U.S.-based, non-partisan non-profit organization which aims to create the political will to end extreme poverty and fight global disease. ONE is closely linked to both the international efforts to achieve the United Nations’ Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), and to the Global Call to Action Against Poverty.

ONE was originally founded by a coalition of 11 non-profit humanitarian and advocacy organizations (such as DATA, World Vision, Oxfam America and Bread for the World) with funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and leadership from U2 band member and global humanitarian Bono. Physicians for Peace has now been recognized by ONE as one of its approximately 70 organizational partners.

“Physicians for Peace is proud to join with the partners of the ONE campaign and add our voice to the chorus seeking to end the endemic crises of world poverty, hunger and disease,” commented Physicians for Peace CEO Brig. Gen, Ron Sconyers (USAF, Ret.). “From the nearly 20 years we have been sending physicians and other medical professionals abroad to treat the neediest and train doctors and nurses, we know that even the simplest actions can have profound effects.”

Physicians for Peace was recently cited by TIME Magazine and world renowned economist Professor Jeffrey Sachs of Columbia University’s Earth Institute as one of the nation’s leading non-governmental organizations for mobilizing volunteers to provide medical training for the health care providers of the world’s most vulnerable populations.

ABOUT PHYSICIANS FOR PEACE

Physicians for Peace is an international private voluntary organization that mobilizes healthcare educators to assist developing nations with unmet medical needs and scarce resources. Through effective, hands-on medical education and training, clinical care and donated medical supplies, Physicians for Peace creates long-term, sustainable, replicable, and evidence-based projects to help partner nations build medical capability and capacity to help themselves. Volunteers for the 501©(3) nonprofit organization have conducted medical missions in more than 50 countries. More information is available at www.physiciansforpeace.org.