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4 the World
4 the World is a U.S.-based non-profit organization providing support to under-developed communities throughout the world, by empowering local people to collaborate, learn new skills, and improve their own communities. They are developing a medical clinic in Selena Belize.

ACQUIRE Project (Access, Quality, and Use in Reproductive Health)
The ACQUIRE Project is designed to meet the critical global challenges of the rising number of women of reproductive age who need family planning (FP) and reproductive health (RH) care. The ACQUIRE Project is working to advance and support facility-based RH/FP services by increasing clients' access to quality services, improving service providers' ability to offer such services, and strengthening the environment in which health care staff provide services.

ACQUIRE Project Honduras
The ACQUIRE Project is designed to meet the critical global challenges of the rising number of women of reproductive age who need family planning (FP) and reproductive health (RH) care. ACQUIRE's Honduras project supports activities throughout Honduras, with a particular focus on five priority departments: Copan, Ocotepeque, Lempira, La Paz, and Intibuca.

ACTS- Americans caring, teaching, sharing
The mission of ACTS is to promote sustainable programs for health, education and development in collaboration with rural Honduran communities in the Yoro region and to foster cross-cultural understanding between us.

Advantage Haiti under Lumiere Medical Ministries
Advantage Haiti serves the needs of those with disabling conditions through the Rehabilitation Clinic & the Prosthetics / Orthotics Shop at the Cayes Clinic in Les Cayes, The Bernice Johnson Center (vocational training program for women with disabilities and--starting in May 2010--rehabilitation clinic that can house persons who need to stay in the area for short or longer term rehabilitation. The Rehabilitation Brace Shop is equipped to fabricate custom orthotics. Other programs include those for Blindness and Low Vision and School Sponsorships.

Adventure in Missions
Adventure In Missions is a non-denominational Christian ministry dedicated to bridging the gap between North Americans and the needy and neglected of Honduras. Has medical outreach teams. Not related to Adventures in Mission (adventures.org)

Agape Flights
Agape Flights makes regular weekly flights to Haiti, the Dominican Republic and Bahamas for over 350 missionary families. Agape distributes medicine, medical supplies, nutritional supplements. They coordinate short-term, volunteer mission teams and organizes and implement self-sustaining community development projects.

Agape in Action
Agape in Action seeks to bring hope to the poor and disadvantaged in Guatemala by providing physical, medical and spiritual aid. Surgical care is provided at the Santa Cruz del Quiche government hospital, and volunteers serve poor Mayan Indians in rural clinic settings as well.

AHF Global Immunity: Honduras
AHF Global Immunity oversees local medical providers treating HIV-positive men and women at Honduras clinics run by Siempre Unidos. Clinics are in San Pedro Sula, Siguatepeque, and Roatan.

Air Cavalry
Air Cavalry coordinates flights with the help of local operators and aircraft in Honduras, Guatemala, Belize, Haiti and the Dominican Republic.

Alabama Honduran Missions
From Christ United Methodist Church, Jasper, Alabama. Groups go under the umbrella of Volunteers in Missions, United Methodist Church. They are interdenominational. 45 teams went last year on medical, dental, eye, and building trips. Opened Ciriboya Health Clinic. Goal: Function as a regional hospital, clinic, emergency services 24/7, referral center, training for medical personnel, eye, dental, and public health center.

Aldo Castañeda Foundation (La Fundacion Aldo Castañeda)
Guatemalan organization established to develop a high quality pediatric cardiac unit in Guatemala. Funds raised help train medical, nursing and technical personnel and also acquire the necessary equipment. Founded by top pediatric cardiac surgeon Dr. Aldo Castaneda.

Aldo Castañeda Foundation (La Fundacion Aldo Castañeda)
Guatemalan organization established to develop a high quality pediatric cardiac unit in Guatemala (to help children from Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Belize, Dominican Republic and Haiti). Funds raised help train medical, nursing and technical personnel and also acquire the necessary equipment. Founded by top pediatric cardiac surgeon Dr. Aldo Castaneda.

All Saints' Episcopal Church
For over twenty years, people representing the Episcopal Church in Mississippi have been going to Honduras to work with the local people to improve medical, dental, and veterinary health in the area.

Ambos Foundation
Ambos Foundation is a non-profit, non-governmental organization founded in 1998 to help the people of Sabanagrande, Francisco Morazan, Honduras. Programs include a medical clinic and an eye care program. Ambos welcomes visiting medical teams.

American Medical Resources Foundation, Inc. (AMRF)
Donates fully operational, used medical equipment to hospitals and clinics in developing nations, including the Dominican Republic and Guatemala. AMRF also teaches procedures for equipment maintenance at recipient institutions.

American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH) is the principal organization in the United States representing scientists, clinicians and others with interests in the prevention and control of tropical diseases through research and education.

American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene - Funding and Fellowships
A list of fellowships and funding provided by ASTMH and other organizations.

Americans Caring Teaching Sharing (ACTS) Honduras
ACTS is a partner in health care and community development in Honduras. Through their clinic in El Rosario, ACTS volunteers are enabling Hondurans to help themselves and to manage their own clinic.

AmeriCares
AmeriCares is a disaster relief and humanitarian aid organization, which provides immediate response to emergency medical needs and supports long-term healthcare programs for people around the world. AmeriCares solicits donations of medicines, medical supplies and other relief materials from U.S. and international manufacturers, and delivers them to indigenous healthcare and welfare professionals in 137 countries around the world.

AMG International
AMG International (Advancing the Ministries of the Gospel) is an evangelical mission and relief agency, currently ministering in 55 countries of the world. They have a hospital in Cubulco, Guatemala (Senorita Elena Medical) that is partly staffed by short-term medical missionaries from the U.S. and Canada.

Amigos Hospitalito Atitlan
Support organizations for Hospitalito Atitlan-- a small private non-profit hospital serving a population of 43,000 Tz'utujil Maya on the southern shore of Lake Atitlán in the highlands of Guatemala. Local physicians work with volunteer medical personnel from around the world to provide a comprehensive scope of care, including the only 24/7 emergency and surgical obstetrical care within a 2-hour radius.

Amnesty International report on Belize
Amnesty International summarizes the political and human rights situation in Belize. No report available as of 01/2008

Amnesty International report on Haiti
Amnesty International summarizes the political and human rights situation in Haiti.

Amnesty International report on the Dominican Republic
Amnesty International summarizes the political and human rights situation in the Dominican Republic.

Angel Missions Haiti
Angel Missions Haiti coordinates state-of-the-art medical care and delivers elementary education to the children of Haiti in concert with providing primary health education to Haitian physicians through its U.S. and Haitian missions.

Annotated list of International Health Related Websites
Links to about 100 sites for people interested in international health.

Asociacion Pop-Wuj (Pop Wuj Clinic)
Based on years of work in Xela and the rural areas that surround the city, Pop Wuj teachers believe that lack of access to healthcare is one of the most pressing problems in present-day Guatemala. The Pop Wuj Clinic exists to address that need. Since its opening, the Pop Wuj clinic has opened its doors to students and healthcare professionals interested in helping in this process with donations of time, ideas, money or equipment.

Asociación Pro Bienestar de la familia (APROFAM)
The Asociación Pro Bienestar de la familia de Guatemala (APROFAM)has more than 40 years service in the health sector with an emphasis on sexual and reproductive health and a commitment to contribute to the development of Guatemalan society. It offers services in 29 clinics in 18 of the 22 departments in the country and carries out education and health activities through 3,500 voluntary promoters and 500 juvenile multipliers who provide a national coverage.

Asociación Pro Bienestar de la familia (APROFAM) Clinics in Guatemala
Clinics, hospitals, and laboratories offering reproductive health services in Guatemala, listed by department.

ASSADE
ASSADE is a non governmental, non-profit organization offering primary health services, equally to the population of San Andres Itzapa and Chimaltenango. Employs two doctors and a pharmacist. Hosts medical missions.

Assist International
Assist International is a humanitarian organization dedicated to relieving suffering around the world by networking the resources in the world, with the great human need that exists. When medical equipment is requested of Assist International from a hospital, the organization finds an outstanding system, donated by a hospital or corporation in America.A team of biomedical engineers volunteers time to test and recalibrate the equipment into excellent condition. The engineers then install the new system. Doctors and nurses donate their time and expertise to train personnel in the equipment's use.

Association For Haitian American Development
Organization whose mission is "to bring awareness about Haiti and her people,to establish linkage between Haiti and the rest of the world, to promote unity, cohesion among all cultures, to embrace our culture."

Association of Evangelical Relief & Development Organizations (AERDO)
AERDO is a professional forum for non-profit Christian agencies and individuals engaged in relief and development work. AERDO exists to promote excellence in professional practice; to foster networking, collaboration and information exchange; and to enable its membership to effectively support the Church in serving the poor and needy. Member listing includes many medical missions organizations.

Associations des Oeuvres Privees de Sante - Association of Private Health Care Facilities (AOPS)
This is a large organization of private hospitals and health facilities in Haiti. Useful list of members. The website is in French. If you aren't able to read French, there are several free translators available, such as through Google.com. Useful page with member addresses.

Atkinson Family Clinic
Sponsored by the God's Child Project in Antigua, this clinic makes medical, dental and pharmaceutical services available on a sliding scale ranging from free to 17 cents to a maximum of $ 7 per visit.

Baptist Haiti Mission
The Baptist Haiti Mission's medical ministry in Fermathe, Haiti (close to Port-au-Prince) serves the local population as well as those in remote areas. The medical staff operates a 100 bed full service hospital and tuberculosis sanitarium, as well as outpatient clinics serving hundreds daily.

Baptist Medical & Dental Mission International
BMDMI sends short-term and full-time missionaries abroad to minister to impoverished people through medical-dental volunteer mission teams. For the past 3 decades, BMDMI has been ministering in the remote villages of Honduras and Nicaragua striving to meet the needs of people who are in great need. Our short-term mission teams comprised of professionals and non-professionals alike play a critical role in meeting these needs.

Baptist Medical and Dental Mission International
Each year approximately 40 teams travel from the United States to Honduras and Nicaragua meeting the physical and spiritual needs of thousands of needy villagers. These teams are comprised of Christian doctors, dentists, pharmacists, nurses, pastors, teachers, retirees, etc. -- who are willing to give a week of their lives.

Baptist Medical Missions International
Baptist Medical Missions International is a program offering free medical care by volunteer health care professionals where there is need around the world. The medical/evangelistic teams, comprised of hundreds of doctors, dentists, optometrists, pharmacists, nurses, and a host of other health care professionals visited/will visit in 2004 Guatemala, Honduras, and the Dominican Republic, as well as many other countries.

Baptist Medical Missions International
Baptist Medical Missions International is a program that offers free medical care by volunteer health care professionals where there is a need around the world. There are hundreds of doctors, dentists, optometrists, pharmacists, nurses and a host of other health care professionals who make up the teams working with BMMI. Countries supported include Honduras, Guatemala, and the Dominican Republic.

Baptist Mid Missions
TASK Force Program provides opportunities for healthcare professionals to serve abroad from 1 week to 2 months. A clinic is operating in Jacmel, Haiti with one Haitian doctor and one mission doctor.

Baradères Sister Parish Project
The project is a parish ministry of St. John the Baptist Catholic Community, Silver Spring, Maryland. It enables people in St. Pierre parish, Baradères, to obtain health and educational services they otherwise would not have. Baraderès is on the north coast of Haiti's western peninsula, about 100 miles west of Port-au-Prince.

Batey Relief Alliance
Humanitarian aid organization with the purpose of addressing the difficulties facing the indigent population living in the bateys [labor enclaves] of the Dominican Republic, including the Haitian migrants and their families by raising awareness about their plight by facilitating dialogues and by forming partnerships so that effective programs can be created.

Bayan Hospital
Rural hospital in Palacios founded in 1985. Low-cost services include small operating suite, pharmacy, four adult beds, two pediatric beds, etc.

Behrhorst Partners for Development
This nonprofit organization's goal is to work in respectful partnership with Mayan Guatemalans to have a positive impact on the problems associated with Guatemala's history of violence against indigenous populations, natural disasters, poverty, illiteracy and disastrously high rates of infant and maternal death.

Belize- hospital listing
A list of Belize hospitals, with addresses and phone numbers.

Belize Children's Project
Through Rotary District 6510 BCP provides orthopedic care for Belizean children under the age of 18. Dr. Jack Sheridan, an orthopedic surgeon, donates his time, and travels each year to Belize, where he conducts clinics and identifies the children who can be helped through treatment in the United States. Year-round referral program through local doctor. See MMEX mission listing for contacts.

Belize Country Health Profile from the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO)
Data on health system in Belize from the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO).

Belize Health News
Belize Health News. Service for global professionals. Constantly updated news and information about Belize.

Belize Health Overview
Site by WordTravels reviews travel immunizations, disease information for Belize.

Belize Medical Associates
Belize Medical Associates has a mission to provide complete quality health services at affordable prices through professional and dedicated medical staff. Belize Medical Associates is affiliated with Baptist Health Systems of Miami.

Belize Ministry of Health and Public Service
As Belize strives to develop a strong engine of sustainable economic growth, it is the role of the Ministry of Health to ensure a better quality of life for all Belizeans. The Ministry's role is to maintain an environment that is conducive to good health and wellness within a framework that ensures equity, quality and accessibility.

Belize Mission & Retreat at Turtleshores
Belize Mission & Retreat hosts hands-on medical/dental teams, construction teams and other teams throughout the country of Belize.

Belize Mission Project
The Belize Mission Project has been taking doctors and dentists into Belize since 1991. They are familiar with temporary licensing requirements, and also have connections to facilitate the entry of medications and supplies into Belize. (09/15/2008- site down)

Belize Travel Health Recommendations
MDtravelhealth.com provides travel health information, updated daily, for physicians and travelers. Includes immunization recommendations and description of diseases in Belize.

Best Practices for Christian Short-Term Healthcare Missions
International working group of Christian healthcare practitioners seeking to develop and promote consensus guidelines of best practices for the planning, execution, integration and follow-through of effective cross-cultural short-term healthcare missions.

Bethel Clinic of Dumay
Healing Art Missions supports this permanent clinic. The clinic is staffed by Haitian health care professionals and provides medical services free or on a sliding scale of charges. Services include OB/GYN, opthalmology, general medical and general surgery.

Bethesda Medical Clinic
Christian clinic located in Vaudreuil, Haiti, outside of Cap Haitian, staffed by Haitians. Full-time personnel treat over 30,000 patients at the medical clinic and 5,000 at the dental clinic yearly. In addition, retired missionaries and medical/dental professionals assist the nationals on a part-time volunteer basis.

Biblioteca Virtual en Salud Honduras
A virtual library of health information related to Honduras.

Bless the Children (BTC)
Bless the Children improves health care in some of the poorest areas of the world. BTC provides hospital equipment and supplies to facilities in developing countries, including the Dominican Republic and Honduras.

Blessings International
Blessings International provides pharmaceuticals, vitamins, and medical supplies for treating needy patients in clinics and hospitals in developing nations. They partner with local groups and serve as a resource for medicines for short-term medical mission teams, clinics, and outreaches.

Bob Corbett's Haiti page
Eclectic collection of information about Haiti.

Bon Samaritan
Christian-based mission located in Montrouis north of Port au Prince on Route One south of St. Marc. They have a small basic clinic for the poor. They are open 6 days a week and have a nurse, pastor who serves as a pharmacist and manager there all the time. They have a doctor who volunteers when he can.

Brother's Brother Foundation
Working with Food for the Poor and Christian Aid Ministries, Brother’s Brother Foundation has sent over $5 million in requested medicines to over 200 clinics and 10 hospitals in Haiti during January and February, 2004. BBF plans to provide future medical shipments. Brother’s Brother Foundation is currently accepting in-kind donations of medical supplies and medicines.

Buen Pastor Nutrition Center and Clinic
In the Barrio Los Flores (Neighborhood of the Flowers) Buen Pastor is an oasis of hope in one of the poorest barrios in the San Pedro de Marcoris area. Buen Pastor is a nutrition, education, health, and spiritual center which is managed by the Sisters of Transfiguration, an Episcopal order of sisters based in Ohio.

Butterfly Foundation
Butterfly Foundation is dedicated to improving the lives of children with complex spine deformity. US medical teams surgeries for children in developing countries while promoting the advancement of spine deformity treatment technology by training local surgeons. Involved since 2003 in Santo Domingo, at Gautier Hospital.

Byas Foundation
The BYAS FOUNDATION is a nonprofit organization established in Canada in 1997. It is dedicated to raising funds and collecting medical supplies for Hospital of Hope in Pilate, North Department, Haiti. The Foundation was named in memory of the hospital's founder, Father Pollux Byas.

California Honduras Institute for Medical and Education Support (CHIMES)
Forges cooperative efforts by Cubans, Hondurans and North Americans for the development of clinics and health care for Garifuna communities.

Canadian Society for International Health (CSIH)
CSIH is a national non-governmental organization that works domestically and internationally to reduce global health inequities and strengthen health systems.

CANDELA (Centro de Adaptacion para Ninos y Adultos Discapacitados del Lago de Atitlan)
CANDELA Center for Disabled Children and Adults is run independently by Guatemalan staff members who are assisted by international volunteers.

Cap Haitien Dental Institute (CHDI)
CHDI is a permanent, Haitian-staffed, two dental chair clinic with an adjoining teaching classroom. It is located on the campus of the Hospital Universite Justinien, in Cap Haitien. Outreach teams perform ART, AFT, and OUT in rural areas, villages, and schools.

Cap Haitien Eye Center
Founded in 1989, the Cap Haitien Eye Center provides eye examinations, glasses, cataract surgery, and glaucoma treatment.

Cape CARES -- Central American Relief Efforts
Cape CARES sends teams of doctors, dentists, nurses, translators and support personnel to Honduras about 6-10 times each year. Offers free medical and dental services to people in locations where there is no access to on-going medical treatment.

CardioStart
Non-profit, humanitarian medical organization dedicated to providing free heart surgery and other medical support to children and adults living in underserved areas of the world. It is comprised of volunteer medical and non-medical staff located throughout the world.

Caribbean American Shipping Corp. (CASCO)
Caribbean American Shipping Corp. (CASCO) is a Florida corporation serving the mission community's Caribbean export needs. Their goal is to meet mission clients' particular needs with dependable, cost-effective shipping. They have been working in Haiti for 30 years.

Caribbean Heart Menders
Caribbean Heart Menders provides life-saving surgery for children in need as well as helps train medical professionals and develop local hospitals to be able to treat patients on their own. Since 2003, CHMA has sponsored a surgical and interventional cardiac catheterization one-week long trip to the Dominican Republic. Their team performed heart surgery and catheterization at Clinica Corazones Unidos in Santo Domingo and in Santiago.

Caribbean HIV/AIDS Regional Training Network (CHART)
CHART's goal is to strengthen national health care personnel to provide access to quality HIV/AIDs prevention and treatment. Training and Clinical Resources available on their site.

Carolina Honduras Health Foundation
The Foundation provides free medical and dental care and health education on disease prevention, sanitation and nutrition through a clinic in Limon known as the Carolina Health Clinic. Several teams visit the clinic each year.

Carroll County Haiti Mission Project(CCHMP)
The Carroll County Haiti Mission Project(CCHMP) was created in 2001 to build a medical/dental clinic in the village of Juampas. Since then, the organization has expanded its missions to school sponsorships, vaccinations, dental care and water purification.

Carroll County Haiti Mission Project(CCHMP) medical/dental clinic in Juampas
The Carroll County Haiti Mission Project(CCHMP) was created in 2001 to build a medical/dental clinic in the village of Juampas. Since then, the organization has expanded its missions to school sponsorships, vaccinations, dental care and water purification.

Casa de Esperanza Ministries (House of Hope)
Casa de Esperanza provides medical, dental and construction services in central Honduras. The portable dental clinic provides free dental care. Medical clinics are periodically run alongside the dental clinics.

Casa Guatemala
Casa Guatemala is an orphanage that cares for the nurturing, health and education of over 250 children. This site, located in Zone 1 of Guatemala City, also houses a 24 hour/25 bed on-site medical centre, which extends free treatments to thousands of children and adults per year. The infant home and clinic is entirely staffed by Guatemalans and includes: 2 doctors, 5 nurses, 7 baby sitters, a lab technician, a cook, a psychologist and 3 social workers. Dr. Alvaro Fiugeroa leads a team from the Rush Craniofacial Center in Chicago each year to perform cleft lip/cleft palate surgeries.

Cascade Medical Team (subsidiary of HELPS International)
CMT provides free medical care to the Mayan people of the highlands of Guatemala. Annual surgical trip to Solola.

Cathedral of the Incarnation in Nashville, TN
Cathedral of the Incarnation in Nashville has adopted a Haitian parish, St. John the Baptist in LaVallee, a mountainous region 50 miles from Port-au-Prince. Among other outreach programs, a healthcare and medical trip is planned each year to provide care to the sick in the outlaying areas of LaVallee, especially those who are unable to travel to St. Joseph hospital.

Catholic Diocese of Richmond Haiti Outreach
Works in health care, education, public policy and justice issues in Hinche, Haiti. The diocese hosts numerous visitors, and sponsors conferences. Their web site has a calendar of trips (some medical), conferences and links.

Catholic Medical Mission Board
Catholic Medical Mission Board works collaboratively to provide quality healthcare programs and services, without discrimination, to people in need around the world. In 2003, they have launched a major new public health initiative in Haiti that will address this country’s most critical healthcare issues.

Catholic Medical Mission Board
CMMB began working in Haiti in the 1920's, and now supports healthcare initiatives with benefits to women and children. These include a school-based health program, a daycare center with health care, and work with St. Boniface hospital in Fond des Blanc.

Catholic Medical Missions Board
Catholic Medical Mission Board (CMMB) is a U.S.-based Catholic-charity focusing on global healthcare, particularly the well-being of women and children. CMMB works to fight HIV/AIDS from Africa to Asia, to combat tuberculosis in Zambia, and to provide primary healthcare in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Catholic Medical Missions Board -- Medical Supplies for Mission Trips
Through the Medical Supplies for Mission Trips program, CMMB provides needed medicines and supplies free of charge to medical missionaries.

CDC (Centers for Disease Control) Health Information
This is the part of CDC's website that provides information and recommendations about travel to various countries. Other parts of the CDC website are also very useful.

Center for the Rehabilitation of Patients with Addictions (CEREPA)
In Catacamas, Olancho, Honduras the Center for the Rehabilitation of Patients with Addictions -- CEREPA -- combines an environment of Christian love and teaching with a variety of proven treatments for addiction.

Central American Medical Outreach (CAMO)
CAMO is a non-denominational Christian organization providing medical equipment, community service, supplies and training to impoverished regions of Central America. Many CAMO programs and medical missions serve Honduras.

Central American Medical Outreach (CAMO)
It is the mission of CAMO to be a leader in providing and integrating safe medical equipment, related medical education, volunteer trainers and community development to Central America. They work closely in partnership with their developing country counterparts to identify and implement all programs.

Centre des Enfants Handicapes of Jacmel (Pazapa)
Provides health education and treatment for physically and mentally handicapped children in the Jacmel region, on the south coast of Haiti. Pazapa has had an cooperative relationship with St. Vincent's School for the Handicapped in Port- au-Prince. Staff includes a registered nurse, a physical therapist, three health educators. Visiting physicians hold periodic patient evaluation clinics. Papaza provides surgery, orthopedic devices, physical therapy, and rehabilitation for physically handicapped children at no cost.

Centre Sante Lumiere (Cayes Clinic)
Centre Sante Lumiere provides a broad spectrum of out-patient services in family medicine, internal medicine, obstetrics, gynecology, pediatrics, urology, orthopedics, dentistry and community health.

Centro Cristiano de Servicios Medicos of Honduras (CCSM)
CCSM is committed to addressing the medical and spiritual needs of the poor in Honduras. Those who would normally seek medical care in public health hospitals and clinics are seen. Includes eye clinics and dental clinics.

Centro de Salud Barbara (Partner for Surgery)
Rural clinic in San Juan Sacatepéquez,one hour outside of Guatemala City. Has 2 fully-equipped ORs at the Centro de Salud Barbara . Surgical teams welcome, lodging available. Partner for Surgery will bring in patients for these teams, from among the neediest of the poor. PFS provides all necessary patient logistics from translation to follow-up care.

Centro Medico Bournigal
Bournigal Medical Center (CMB) is a general and specialized hospital located in Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic.

Centro Medico de Guatemala
Full-service hospital in Guatemala City.

Cervical Cancer Prevention Program
Cervical cancer diagnosis and treatment for women from the Leogane area. Uses Thin Prep screening and portable colposcopes. Run by Family Health Ministries.

Children of the Americas (COTA)
Each year, Children of the Americas, Inc. organizes a volunteer medical/surgical team that travels to Guatemala to provide free medical and surgical care to children and their families. Services provided include outpatient general medical treatment, plastic surgery (including cleft lip and palate repair and burn reconstruction), OB/GYN surgery, pediatric orthopedic surgery, general surgery, and dentistry. The group also includes an orthotics and prosthetics component that provides braces and prosthetic devices to children who have lost limbs due to accident or injury.

Children of the Nations
Children of the Nations works in homes, schools, farms, skill centers, clinics, and village feeding centers in the US, Dominican Republic, Sierra Leone, and Malawi. Over 300 interns have served from one month to one year in each country. COTN supports sends both medical and surgical teams as well as evangelistic teams to these countries.

Children of the Nations Medical Clinic
The medical clinic enables teams of physicians, surgeons, dentists, nurses and other healthcare workers to provide on-going Christ-centered medical and dental care to the impoverished peoples in the region of Barahona, Dominican Republic. The facility has two operating rooms as well as a procedure room and a separate dental clinic. Common surgical needs include hernia repair, tonsillectomies, plastic surgery, scar revision, gynecology and limited orthopedic procedures.

Children of the World Foundation
Charitable organization involved in social and healthcare projects in Nicaragua, Mexico, Rwanda, and Haiti. In Haiti they collaborate with the Foundation for Mercy and Sharing to support 3 orphanages and an OB-GYN Hospital and Clinic(Mercy Clinic)in Port-au-Prince.

Children's Cross Connection International
Judeo-Christian organization that provides medical services to underprivileged children worldwide. CCCI has several five year cooperative programs between medical groups in the U.S. and their overseas counterparts that have been or soon will be completed. Recently, a basic pediatric open heart surgery program was completed in El Salvador and the local surgeons are now performing over 100 procedures a year on their own.

Children's HeartLink
Medical charity dedicated to the treatment and prevention of heart disease in needy children in developing countries. Programs of assistance include surgery, rheumatic fever prevention programs, education and training for medical professionals, and the donation of medical equipment and supplies.

Children's Medical Missions of Haiti
CMMH, is a not-for-profit foundation which supports children's health work by the Episcopal Church of Haiti (Eglise Episcopale d'Haiti; EEH).

Children's Nutrition Program of Haiti (CNP of Haiti)
The CNP works in partnership with Hopital Ste. Croix, in Leogane, Haiti to empower mothers and other caregivers, run mobile medical clinics and support health-related community development programs.

Childspring International
Childspring helps families acquire birth certificates, passports, and visas for the child to come to the USA for the medical treatment they need. Childspring petitions doctors and hospitals to provide the most modern and technologically advanced treatments for the children. 32 countries including Haiti, Honduras, St. Vincent and the Grenadines and Guatemala.

Christ the King Catholic Church Honduras Mission (Little Rock, AR)
This church sponsors a large annual medical mission to Trujillo Hospital in HN with multiple specialists including surgeons. Also sends hearing team, school team and construction team. 2009 is the 12th mission year.

Christian Connections for International Health
The mission of Christian Connections for International Health is to promote international health and wholeness from a Christian perspective. CCIH provides field-oriented information resources and a forum for discussion, networking, and fellowship to the spectrum of Christian organizations and individuals working in international health.

Christian Dental Society
The Christian Dental Society is a domestic and international non-profit organization that functions to provide oral health care to those in need.

Christian Eye Ministry
CEM provides basic eye services and training of healthcare professionals, in addition to research projects focused on common eye diseases in Honduras and Ghana.In the fall of 2001, CEM opened the Abundante Life Church Ophthalmology Center to serve the poor families of Tegucigalpa and surrounding regions.

Christian Flights International (CFI)
Christian Flights International (CFI) is a ministry created to give the children of Ranquitte, Haiti "Hope and a Future." Trips include medical and educational.

Christian Hospitals Secure Equipment Needs (CHOSEN)
CHOSEN provides medical equipment, technical assistance manuals, and medical supplies to medical missionaries and national health care workers.

Christian Medical & Dental Associations
The Christian Medical & Dental Associations (CMDA) serve as a voice for Christian doctors. Its mission is to "change hearts in healthcare." Over 14,000 members. Organize some medical missions throughout the world but none in Haiti.

Christian Medical Mission
Dedicated to providing affordable (if not free) health care to the people of the Moca province and surrounding areas of the Dominican Republic. The Moca Clinic offers dental services (filling, removal, replacement, and hygiene of teeth as well as Preventive care including sealants)and medical services (adult and pediatric care, and optometry services.)

Christian Mission Trip Locator Database
Helps potential missionaries find an organization with short- term or long-term Christian mission trips. Includes medical trips along with other missions.

Christian Outreach International
Short-term missions include medical missions to the Dominican Republic.

Christian Service International (CSI Ministries)
CSI works with churches, schools, universities, families and individuals to design custom international and national outreach experiences. CSI handles all the details and provides the assistance group leaders and coaches need to have a successful experience. Works in Guatemala, Belize, Haiti, the Dominican Republic and Honduras, among other countries.

Christianville Eye Clinic
The Christianville eye clinic is located on the Christianville Mission, 20 miles west of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on the grounds of the Christianville mission complex. The clinic is staffed by a full-time missionary optometrist. Besides the eye clinic there is a medical clinic, dental clinic, nutrition center, and schools serving over 1,000 children.

Christianville Medical, Dental and Eye Clinic
These three clinics meet the physical needs of the people in and around Christianville. Because of the reputation of these facilities and personnel, people often travel from several hours away to receive treatment. These busy clinics see up to 130 patients a day. Fulltime doctor and optometrist. Dentist visits 3 days each month

Christianville Mission
In order to meet the physical needs of the impoverished Haitian people, a medical clinic with nutrition program treats the sick. The modern dental and eye clinics see hundreds of people each week.

CIA Factbook
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Ciriboya Clinic (run by AHMEN)
Goal: Function as a regional hospital, clinic, emergency services 24/7, referral center, training for medical personnel, eye, dental, and public health center. Now: Full time Cuban Medical personnel, Rotations of Honduran and American Medical personnel. Founded by Alabama Honduran Missions and CHIMES

Clinica Christiana de la Salud Integral
North American medical teams work with Dominican doctors to provide services at little or no charge to those using them. Solid Rock Missions partners with the Clinic Christiana to help provide low cost healthcare.

Clinica Esperanza
The mission of Clinica Esperanza is to offer quality, low-cost physical, mental and spiritual services to the poor in the areas of general health, specialized medicine and physical rehabilitation.

Clinica Esperanza- Honduras
Open five days a week, the Clínica Esperanza serves over 150 patients a week for acute and chronic illnesses ranging from hypertension, diabetes, malaria, and a variety of breaks, scrapes and bruises. The clinic is located in Sandy Bay, Roatan. Founded by an American nurse, the clinic is staffed by two doctors and a supported by a rotation of volunteers year round.

Clinica Esperanza- Roatan, Honduras
Open five days a week, the Clínica Esperanza serves over 150 patients a week for acute and chronic illnesses ranging from hypertension, diabetes, malaria, and a variety of breaks, scrapes and bruises. Interested in volunteering? Let us know. We are often in need of volunteers both medical and nonmedical. Just drop us an email, let us know when you might be available and how you're interested in contributing.

Clínica Esperanza y Caridad
Clínica Esperanza y Caridad is a sustainable medial mission that is run by the Episcopal church in San Pedro de Macorís on the southeastern Caribbean coast of the Dominican Republic. It has three major divisions: Clinical Medicine, Physical Therapy & Rehabilitation and Community Health & Prevention. It is run by two American physicians, Anita and Michael Dohn, who work as medical missionaries for the South American Missionary Society. Missionary Society.

Clinica Ezell
Clinic sponsored by Health Talents International. Clinica Ezell serves as their point of operation for all mobile medical and surgical teams. The dormitory houses visiting teams, and the su