What do we do?

The IFD supports service needs, teaching and research into skin diseases and related problems.

The agenda includes the recognition and management of:

• Skin diseases.
• Sexually transmitted infections and AIDS.
• Leprosy and its complications, particularly where the prevalence is low.
• Skin wounds, burns and ulceration.
• 'Stigma' and disfigurement due to skin disease and scarring from wounds, burns
  and cancer.

• A faculty for disseminating knowledge.
• Training health care workers.
• Solving the need for medicaments for instance by obtaining donations from the pharmaceutical industry, creating topical dermatological medication compounding facilities for the local production of medicaments.
• Participating in the campaign to combat morbidity in lymphatic filariasis.
• Defining dermatological needs.
  
  

How did we get this far?

• Approximately $5 Million in funds and in-kind donations raised to date.
• Administrative funding provided by the International League of Dermatological Societies (ILDS) as well as by donations from members of the ICD and IFD, pharmaceutical companies and medical charities.
• Student scholarship funding donated by dermatological societies, individuals and industry.
• Individual donations made by the dermatologists, their friends and
  patients world-wide.
• Funds and medical supplies provided by organisations and pharmaceutical corporations.
• Dermatological Societies, Leprosy Organisations have all contributed to our mission.
• A UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation) planning grant awarded to the IFD.
• Funding from the Global Alliance for the Elimination of Lymphatic Filariasis.