We have collected an extensive list of online resources related to international health and medical missions.
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's Honduras project supports activities throughout Honduras, with a particular focus on five priority departments: Copan, Ocotepeque, Lempira, La Paz, and Intibuca.
Across the Globe Children's Foundation (ATGCF) partners with organizations worldwide that help children and families living in impoverished environments. Included among it's special initiatives, ATGCF works with organizations to provide mental health services and prosthetic devices for amputees in Honduras and Ecuador.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Forges cooperative efforts by Cubans, Hondurans and North Americans for the development of clinics and health care for Garifuna communities.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Christ's Love Shared Community Clinic is supported by the Fellow Man International Foundation and offers services which include: general medicine, dentistry, laboratory services, labor and delivery as well as minor surgery. The clinic is located in the town of Buenos Aires, Santa Barbara, Honduras.
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.
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.
Open five days a week, the Clinica 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. Clinica Esperanza also opened a maternity and pediatric care center in March 2011. 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 Evangelica Morava is located in the La Mosquitia region of Honduras. The clinic maintains 3 full time physicians offering outpatient services and a public health program that focuses on prenatal care, midwife education, nutrition, vaccination, and HIV detection and prevention. In addition, the hospital provides inpatient services, including, obstetrics care and general surgery.
Medical clinic for the poor in Gracias, Honduras. Sponsored by The Luke Society.
Compassion Med International (CMI) is a non-profit, non-denominational Christian organization whose purpose is to provide international medical relief around the world, including Honduras.
Convoy of Hope provides food, supplies, and humanitarian services to under served communities throughout the world, including, Guatemala, Honduras and Haiti. The organization also engages in disaster relief work.
Contains information on mortality, morbidity, and available medical resources. Information compiled by the Pan American Health Organization includes statistical data and analysis.
The El Rosario Clinic sponsored by ACTS serves the town and the surrounding village. The clinic is staffed with a Honduran nurse and her assistant. Volunteer medical teams, including at least one doctor, travel to the clinic several times a year.
Familias Saludables is a non-profit, non-denominational organization devoted to fighting the AIDS epidemic on Roatan and the Bay Islands. Their focus is on reducing the incidence of mother-to-child transmission of the virus both at birth and via breast milk. They run testing clinics for pregnant women, assign trained home visitors for mothers living with HIV/AIDS, provide education to the public, provide palliative training services and, when available, provide infant formula, medications, and supplies to support families struggling to cope with this disease. All services are free of charge and staff consists solely of local and international volunteers.
Farm of the Child operates an orphanage, school and the Clinic of the Sacred Heart, located west of Trujillo. The clinic offers basic medical and dental care as well as immunizations to the families living on site well as the surrounding community.
Friend Ships provides large scale humanitarian aid, establishes development programs for people lacking essential human needs and supports ongoing programs that are having a significant, positive impact on their communities. Mission teams travel to "Friend Ships Village" in Roatan, Honduras.
The Friends of Barnabas began working in Honduras in the mid- 1990s. Their work evolved into roadside medical clinics staffed by volunteer doctors and nurses from the US. Now all teams have a physician and at least two other medical professionals. FOBF's Extended Care Program for children schedules and takes them to medical appointments
Friends of Honduran Children is a non-profit, volunteer-driven, grass roots organization. Working with Sociedad Amigos de los Ninos, they aim to help the impoverished children of Honduras to break the cycle of poverty which controls their lives and become independent, self-reliant, contributing adults. Work includes medical brigades.
Gehlen Catholic Mission Honduras 'Changing Lives,' was born in the fall of 2000. The vision was to create a program where students from Gehlen would do missionary work in a developing country. Sister Valerie Knoche and Sister Barb Zimmer run the Catholic Mission out of the small village of El Guante. El Guante is located about 2 hours north of Tegucigalpa and is home to about 1,000 people.
Global ENT Outreach is a non-profit foundation dedicated to providing education to ENT specialists through surgical training and humanitarian surgical services to the underserved in developing countries.
Global Medical Brigades is an international network of more than 50 university clubs and volunteer organizations that provide communities in developing nations with sustainable health care solutions. Our current emphasis is in Honduras, where nearly 1,000 GMB volunteers travel annually to deliver services to our 40 communities.
GMR is a collaborative effort among university students, medical professionals and other non-profit organizations to provide relief and additional resources through medical brigades, educational outreach programs and shipment of medical supplies.
Google maps Honduras provides a detailed map of Honduras and the surrounding countries as well as a comprehensive and up-to-date online directory of administrative regions within Honduras.
Grace Dental Mission provides dental clinics in support of church planting missionaries both in the United States and on foreign fields. From 1996 through May of 2004 they treated several hundred missionary family members and participated in 17 dental clinics in 11 different countries, including Honduras.
Hand Help provides surgical medical missions to Honduras to provide hand surgery, primarily for children. Organized by Dr. Grant Thomson, HH travels to San Pedro Sula. HH partners include Ruth Paz Foundation and Yale-New Haven hospital.
Started by Salem Lutheran Church members in Tomball Texas, Heart for Honduras sends two medical and dental missions a year in the La Esperanza area.
Heart to Honduras is a Christian ministry that seeks to address both the spiritual and the material needs of the poor in Honduras. They send several medical and dental teams to Honduras every year, generally in or around Conchias.
Located in Yamaranguila, near La Esperanza. Ministries include student sponsorship, mountain evangelism and church planting. Full-time RN does medical clinics throughout the year in surrounding villages and up in the Opalaca Mountains.
Helping Hands for Honduras (HHH) has established contacts with several hospitals in the United States which admit children from Honduras to perform life saving surgery, pro bono. Helping Hands for Honduras is responsible for obtaining and sending the necessary medical test results to these hospitals for evaluation. Upon acceptance, HHH works with the Consular Section in the United States Embassy In Tegucigalpa, Honduras to obtain visas for the children and their mothers to come to the United States for medical treatment.
Helping Honduras Kids exists to bring education, opportunity, food, shelter, medical care and a loving family environment to disadvantaged children in Honduras. They work with Children's Village Orphanage and operate a dental clinic in El Pital.
Int'l. alliance of organizations working together in the areas of education, capacity building, health and development. Made up of Las Comunidades Unidas, ASHONPLAFA, Honduran Ministry of Health and UNC-Chapel Hill.
Honduras Baptist Medical Dental Mission provides assistance for volunteer mission teams including doctors, nurses, pharmacists, veterinarians and others to poor villages and rural areas of Honduras. In some cases they provide sponsorship of people for surgery in the U.S. that cannot be performed in Honduras.
Honduras Good Works is a nonprofit organization called to minister to the people of Honduras so they break the cycle of poverty and improve the destiny of their lives. The organization is focused on enhancing the health, education and spiritual lives of the people of Honduras.
Honduras Outreach, Inc. (HOI) operates four medical clinics with Honduran medical staff. The main focus of North American involvement in the health and medical program is support of Honduran health professionals. HOI also encourages North American specialists who can help by seeing patients with disorders that are difficult to address in Honduras and by helping to train local medical personnel.
Hope for a Healthier Humanity actively engages in procuring donations of medications and medical equipment and encourages increased access to educational and training opportunities for healthcare planners and practitioners. An example of one such project is a collaborative effort with the Dental School of the Catholic University of Tegucigalpa, Honduras. Through this collaboration HHH sends general and specialist dentists to Honduras multiple times each year, in order that they may teach students and faculty in the Dental School and local area hospitals.
Hope for Honduras medical teams travel to care for the people of Mogote. They are trying to bridge the gap in public health care by providing ongoing basic health care now and by constructing a modern medical clinic for the future.
This is a list of Honduran hospitals, directors, and phone numbers, provided by the Secretaria de Salud de Honduras.
Hospital Loma de Luz, located in Balfate, Honduras is a full service missions hospital. The medical services are provided by full time missionaries serving as doctors, nurses, and physician assistants working with Honduran nurses and techs.
Offering hospital services since 1924, Vicente D'Antoni Hospital has 56 beds and a medical staff of 30 physicians.
Humanity and Hope Foundation serves the areas surrounding El Progreso, Honduras. They conduct bi-annual medical clinic trips as well as partner with local organizations to enhance the health, education and economic leadership of these rural communities.
International Health Service is a non-profit international relief organization that provides medical assistance to the people of Honduras. Each year IHS sponsors missions to Honduras in February and October. The October trip involves planning for the February team of around 100 people working in general medical, surgical, or dental areas.
The International Medical Assistance Foundation (IMAF) conducts several medical and surgical missions annually to Central and South America, including Juticalpa, Honduras.
In addition to the units' primary tasks, MEDEL also conducts outreach health clinics, surgeries and exercises. For more infomation contact Nilda [dot] Toro [at] jtfb [dot] southcom [dot] mil
Key Humanitarian Initiative for Southern Honduras (KHISH) conducts medical, dental and vision mission trips to San Lorenzo, Honduras. KHISH teams provide surgical services at the San Lorenzo Hospital while also offering medical and dental clinics in the surrounding areas.
Full-service hospital in La Lima.
Christian interfaith group is intent on elevating healthcare in Honduras through teaching, lecturing and performing surgeries at no cost and in partnership with local physicians.
Medical Mission Outreach is a short-term Christian medical group that provides medical attention and pharmaceutical supplies free of charge to underserved Central and South American areas. They have worked in Honduras and Mexico as well as number of different countries in South America. (09/15/2008 site down)
MEDICO (The Medical, Eye & Dental International Care Organization) is an independent humanitarian charitable organization providing basic healthcare to underserved regions of Central America. Volunteers come from the U.S. as well as several foreign countries. MEDICO's services include medical, dental, and optometric care along with community health education, water and sanitation projects, dental fluoride programs, school supply projects, bringing special surgery cases to the U.S. and an Adopt.A.Village program.
Mission Honduras LeMars is a non-profit organization that helps improve the lives of the people of Honduras. Their first project was the completion of a medical clinic in El Guante. They also are involved in water projects in neighboring villages, and helping with food programs in Sulaco.
Mission Lazarus sends short term mission teams to Haiti and Honduras. They support several medical/dental clinics, a vocational school and several children's homes.
Missions For Humanity is a Christian, nonprofit organization dedicated to providing medical, dental and humanitarian aid to those in the world’s neediest communities.
Missoula Medical Aid sends two or three teams a year to Honduras. They work in the San Lorenzo hospital, doing everything from medical waste cleanup to surgeries and delivering babies. They have a sister relationship with Save the Children Honduras.
The MAMA Project in Honduras centers around health and nutrition work in the countryside surrounding San Francisco de Yojoa. Programs include vitamin and medicine distribution, and de-worming campaigns.
The mission of the New York Honduras Committee is to provide medical care to the underprivileged children of Honduras and make them self reliant and self respecting members of society. Their goal is to sponsor two missions each year, performing orthopedic surgeries in the spring and plastic and dental surgeries in the fall.
The Norma I. Love Foundation operates from the village of Mocoron, in Mosquitia, Honduras. Their goal is to provide the people living in remote areas of the Mosquitia with a system of medical care and education. A modest health clinic exists in Mocoron. Medical teams welcome. Dentists urgently needed.
Originally established in 2005 as The Holy Family Surgery Center (HSFC), it is located on the Rancho Santa Fe, Nuestro Pequenos Hermanos (NPH) site. It provides outpatient surgical services for NPH children and the rural poor as well as training for the local Honduran medical community. Rancho Santa Fe is located 45 minutes north east of Tegucigalpa.
Opening Eyes maintains a website that provides information regarding eye care providers, hospitals/clinics and organizations working within countries worldwide. In addition to country specific information, Opening Eyes maintains an outreach calendar of vision mission trips.
Medical missions by Love Truth Care Ministries. Send teams with maxillofacial, orthopedic and general surgeons to Tegucigalpa.
Operation Smile is a volunteer medical services organization providing reconstructive surgery and related health care to indigent children and young adults in developing countries and the United States. They send an annual mission to San Felipe Hospital in Tegucigalpa, Honduras.
PanAmerican Health Service, Inc. (PAHS) is a non-profit, non-sectarian Christian medical and educational agency devoted primarily to combating childhood malnutrition. Most of their medical clients are children between one and six years of age from the Lake Yojoa valley region of Honduras, served at the Children's Nutrition Hospital run by PAHS.
Paramedics For Children is an international humanitarian organization serving the world's poor by providing programs that help save lives, bring hope, and restore dignity. This assistance is provided without regard to people's religious beliefs, gender, or ethnic background. Currently they are working in Honduras, Central America
Peace Church missions have been working in Honduras for over 20 years. Optical and dental treams travel most often.
PAPA enables health care providers to become actively involved in short-term medical missions. Recent missions have been to Honduras and Zimbabwe.
Predisan is a medical mission to the people of Honduras. Since 1986, Predisan has been providing health care services and education in and around Catacamas. Predisan's work spans nine locations — the Predisan Family Health Center and Good Samaritan Clinic in central Catacamas, two clinics in rural suburbs of Catacamas, five clinics in remote mountain villages, and the CEREPA addiction treatment center in Catacamas.
Project Global Village´s health program, in coordination with Mercy Corps, works in close cooperation with the Honduran government’s health department to provide assistance to special national and regional initiatives. Project Global Village has also constructed and works with local health centers and clinics in training staff to provide better patient attention and service.
Project HOPE has been active in Honduras since 1982. Past efforts in the region include the development of medical education programs focusing on community health planning; laboratory sciences; nursing; biomedical engineering; community based maternal and child health programming; health facilities management training; renovation; and providing humanitarian assistance.
Pro-Papa works with the people of Honduras to relieve their suffering through health, housing, and education. Pro-Papa operates two clinics: one on the north coast, in Uracco, and one in the southern region of Corquin.
Las misiones requieren del apoyo de los medicos, voluntarios, gente del Regnum Christi y demas personas que brindan sus conocimientos, caridad cristiana y tiempo para sanar cuerpos y almasGracias a la colaboracion de aproximadamente 45 medicos extranjeros, 12 medicos mexicanos, 40 voluntarios de Estados Unidos y 80 voluntarios de Mexico, entre los cuales participan enfermeras, estudiantes de medicina, quimicos, etc., se pueden contar con exito las misiones medicas.
ReSurge International (formerly Interplast) is a nonprofit organization that provides free reconstructive plastic surgery for children and adults in developing countries. Honduras is among the countries served.
Evangelical organization sends medical and surgical missions to Copan area up to 8 times a year.
The Ruth Paz foundation provides life-changing medical care and support to underprivileged Honduran children and their families. Brings children to US for surgery, assists in the management and operation of the pediatric neurosurgery unit at the Mario Catarino Rivas Hospital. Runs the Outpatient Clinic “Dr. Luis Bueso Arias” located within the Leonardo Martinez Public Hospital, evaluates the patients to be seen by visiting Medical Teams. Is building a pediatric burn unit Leonardo Martinez Public Hospital at Leonardo Martinez Public Hospital. Operates Ruth Paz Clinic in San Pedro Sula
Salud Juntos is a non-profit organization focused on the development of community programs and public health projects in Honduras. Salud Juntos conducts short term medical missions to medical clinics in La Guacamaya and Punta de Ocote.
Official site of the Secretaria de Salud of Honduras. Includes links to hospital and health system information.
Send Hope was started by Dr. Tom Brian to help the people on the Moskito Coast of Honuduras. Focus areas include short-term medical, dental, and construction trips, and helping children and families access area hospitals.
Their mission is to gather the resources necessary to build, equip and sustain a medical clinic in the town of La Entrada, ensuring that it has a dependable supply chain of medications and services that will be administered by Honduran medical and dental healthcare practitioners empowered to relieve the pain and suffering of impoverished patients and their families with their help.
Seva works in underserved communities in Haiti, Honduras and Guatemala to restore vision and prevent blindness. Sight Program volunteers help build capacity for improved eye care services, perform cataract surgeries, and provide basic eye care.
Hombro a Hombro is a non-profit NGO legally registered in Honduras since 1998 but operating under the sister U.S. organization Shoulder to Shoulder since 1990. It represents a partnership between the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, the City of Cincinnati, the Ministry of Health of Honduras and most importantly, the Community Health Board in Santa Lucia, Intibuca. The Shoulder to Shoulder medical clinic in Santa Lucia, Honduras was constructed by U.S. and Honduran volunteers in 1994. More recently, a modern dental clinic and nutrition center were added. Two Honduran physicians staff the medical clinic round-the-clock and offer some preventive dental services. Patients treated run the gamut from primary care and preventative needs to urgent life-threatening illnesses or injuries requiring surgical intervention.
Siempre Unidos has the mission to provide life-saving outpatient medical treatment, social support, education, and pastoral care to people living with HIV/AIDS in Honduras. Services are open to all without regard to gender, age, sexual orientation, religion, political affiliation or ability to pay. Clinics are staffed by Honduran physicians and nurses with education and back-up provided by US HIV/AIDS specialists. Social support, nutritional supplementation and pastoral care are provided by the Episcopal Diocese of Honduras. Clinics are in San Pedro Sula, Siguatepeque and Punta Gorda on Rotan.
Sociedad Amigos de los Ninos provides support, through social and developmental programs, to the most vulnerable sectors of the Honduran population. The group works to improve the quality of life for destitute children, young people, mothers, families and communities in Honduras.
Sonrisas Siempre provides dental services to underserved children in Honduras and Ecuador. It does so by educating and providing preventative, restorative, and surgical care during short term dental mission trips.
Summit in Honduras is a humanitarian, non-profit 501 (c) 3 based in Breckenridge, Colorado. They provide outreach to impoverished families and children in rural western Honduras. Summit In Honduras missions include medical outreach, education, literacy, clean water and construction projects. On medical missions the team visits 3-6 villages and treat up to 7 or 8 hundred people over a week’s time. Medical mission teams offer basic health care and health education.
Surgical Eye Expedition (SEE) International provides sustainable medical, surgical, and educational services through volunteer ophthalmic surgeons with the objectives of restoring sight and preventing blindness to disadvantaged individuals worldwide.
In Las Pitas, a small mountain town near the Nicaragua border. A full time Honduran doctor and nurse see 150 patients a week for primary care, chronic disease management, and emergency cases. Also run a nutrition program and a preventive health education program.
This Gracious Work is dedicated to international projects and groups that help others. They helped fund a medical clinic in La Guacamaya, Honduras. Visiting teams have staffed the clinic but the goal is a self-sustaining, locally run clinic.
This website provides information regarding entry/exit requirements, movement restrictions, quarantine information and COVID-19 testing for those traveling to and from Honduras.
Un Mundo is a comprehensive development organization equipping volunteers with the skills and tools they need to implement our three-stage development plan designed to promote dignity, community, and self-sufficiency while facilitating access to health care, education, and livable wages in marginalized rural Honduran communities.
USAID/Honduras forms part of the U.S. Embassy's Mission in Honduras and supports U.S. foreign policy through the administration of U.S. Government economic assistance to the government and people of Honduras.
Vermonters volunteer in Honduras in the areas of education, health, rural development and agriculture, women and families, and others. Health projects include primary care and health training in Tegucigalpa, and a clinic in Lempira targeting at-risk women and adolescents for training in the prevention of STDs, pre-natal care, and more.
The Virginia Hospital Center Medical Brigade conducts an annual medical/surgical mission to Comayagua, Honduras. VHC Medical Brigade also trains community healthcare workers to provide basic medical care at three clinic sites in remote mountain villages through their Remote Village Project.
Specializing in total knee replacements, Walk South undertakes week-long medical missions in underserved countries including Honduras.
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