We have collected an extensive list of online resources related to international health and medical missions.
This organization has been sponsoring medical teams and providing primary health care to Haitian cane cutters in villages surrounding La Romana for over a decade. Surgical teams work at Good Samaritan Hospital. Long term programs address malnutrition of children and women’s health.
Christian organization that has deloped a concept of a Pipeline of Resources – a simple aid distribution system for medical missions – by first learning to serve one country – Guatemala.
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.
Vision Health International is dedicated to the delivery of professional medical, surgical, and educational vision health care services to medically underserved populations in several countries, including Guatemala and Honduras.
The program today includes over 340 twinnings, making it the largest citizen-to-citizen network linking Haiti and the United States. Parish aid has built dispensaries, provided medicines and medical supplies, trained and paid the salaries of nurses, established preventive health programs, and sent medical teams to work in clinics and dispensaries. The program also brings patients from Haiti to the U.S. if they need surgery which is difficult or impossible to get inside Haiti.
Vitamin Angels provides vital nutrition in the form of supplements, to developing countries, communities and individuals in need.
The Voluntary Health Program (VHP) is a nonprofit health care program which focuses on providing primary medical and surgical eye care to under-served rural areas in Central America and the Dominican Republic. VHP conducts short term missions offering comprehensive on site diagnosis, surgical and medical treatment of eye diseases as well as the distribution of corrective glasses.
VOSH volunteers are optometrists, opticians, ophthalmologists, and medical personnel in 33 chapters. During the year 2003 VOSH completed more than 90 missions serving over 140,000 people. Missions are from one to two weeks. In addition VOSH has helped establish permanent eye clinics in Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Haiti and Mexico . Their programs provide recycled eyeglasses, treat eye disease and perform eye surgery.
Volunteers Around the World conducts short term medical and dental missions to several countries worldwide, including Guatemala and the Dominican Republic.
VIMM teams take medical care, medication, vitamins, supplies & Christian love and concern to impoverished areas of the world. Teams travel to Honduras, Dominican Republic, and Guatemala.
VIPS is a committee of the Plastic Surgery Educational Foundation that serves as a resource for plastic surgeons who participate in overseas volunteer service missions to developing countries.
Specializing in total knee replacements, Walk South undertakes week-long medical missions in underserved countries including Honduras.
The Washington Overseas Mission is a humanitarian aid organization that has been sending medical, dental and construction teams to Honduras and Central America for more than 10 years. Based in the small town of Washington Missouri, their volunteers have helped to improve the lives and health of over 100,000 people in this region of Central America.
Waves of Health is a non-profit organization providing primary medical care to underserved communities in the developing world, including the Dominican Republic. In addition to conducting annual medical missions, Waves of Health aims to educate healthcare professionals about the health problems prevalent within the communities they serve.
Wayfinder Missions coordinates multiple short term medical/dental missions to Belize, Guatemala, Haiti and the Dominican Republic each year.
WEGuatemala is the home of the nonprofit community in Guatemala, with a database of volunteer work, NGOs, nonprofits, medical missions, development resources, mission trips and international aid in Guatemala.
WINGS' mission is to increase access to contraception and reproductive health care by addressing common obstacles such as geographic isolation, lack of financial resources and education, and cultural barriers. They work with Guatemalan Non-Governmental Organizations and government health centers, reaching out to rural communities, subsidizing the cost of family planning methods, providing cervical cancer screening for the poorest Guatemalans, and offering seminars on reproductive health to rural poor Guatemalans.
Women Orthopaedist Global Outreach (WOGO) is a not-for-profit organization led by six female orthopaedic surgeons. As a team of Operation Walk, they are dedicated to providing free surgical treatments for patients in developing countries that have no access to life-improving care for arthritis or other debilitating bone and joint conditions.
Since 1990, World Blindness Outreach volunteer medical teams have performed more than 5,000 cataract, corneal transplant, glaucoma, and strabismus surgeries on 50 missions to 20 countries. Teams supported by World Blindness Outreach have visited Egypt, the Dominican Republic, China, Guyana, India, Nigeria, Brazil, Belize, Mexico, the Ukraine, Peru, Nicaragua, and Vietnam among other countries.10/05/2009-- site down
Founded by Dr. Ron Lamb in 1976, the focus of WDR is to help train, equip and supply dental professionals on missions of mercy to the needy anywhere in the world. A wide assortment of dental supplies are available. The dental supplies are donated to World Dental Relief by U.S. manufacturers and are available for charitable dental projects.
WHO is the United Nations specialized agency for health. Site contains useful health information.
World Hope International conducts short term missions to several countries, including Haiti. Mission teams focus on providing medical/dental clinics, education and clean water and sanitation.
World Medical Relief is a charitable organization whose mission is to impact positively the well-being of the medically-needy on a local, national, and international basis. WMR achieves this through the collection of financial donations and goods, including medical, dental, and laboratory items, as well as through the purchase and distribution of such commodities. Goods are distributed in a non-discriminatory manner without regard to race, color, gender, religion, nationality or political beliefs.
World Pediatric Project (formerly International Hospital for Children) focuses on surgery and treatment for children of Latin America, with future plans to expand areas of service. They provide critical surgeries for children at WPP Network Hospitals, and send surgical and diagnostic missions to program countries including Guatemala, the Dominican Republic, and Honduras.
WSF has sponsored yearly surgical missions. They typically complete 25-40 surgeries a day during a ten-day mission, including an annual mission to Honduras. WSF also assists medical facilities worldwide fulfilling requests for items and/or mission workers to provide surgical care. They have supported facilities in Costa Rica, Guatemala, Haiti, Kenya and Russia.
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