We have collected an extensive list of online resources related to international health and medical missions.
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.
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.
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.
AdventHealth Global Missions sends short term medical/surgical teams to countries worldwide, including, Haiti, Honduras and the Dominican Republic.
The Afya Foundation obtains and ships vital supplies necessary to support medical and surgical initiatives focused primarily in Africa and the Caribbean. Supplies are donated and gathered from hospitals, surgical centers and corporations. The Afya Foundation's goal is to serve as a donation-based clearinghouse for the international health community.
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. They run a Mission House in Santo Domingo. Also serves in Honduras and Belize.
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 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.
Aid for Haiti is a nonprofit organization that exists to aid the people of Haiti through compassionate health care, spiritual ministry and training for service. Aid for Haiti conducts both surgical missions to La Colline and rural medical missions several times each year.
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.
ASAP is an international group of anesthesiologists, surgeons, economists and public health specialists committed to improving the infrastructure for and delivery of surgery in low and middle income countries. ASAP fosters partnerships between international organizations, non-governmental organizations, academic institutions and national governments.
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.
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.
A list of fellowships and funding provided by ASTMH and other organizations.
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 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 (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 Eye Care is affiliated with VOSH Int'l and conducts annual optometric mission trips to Guatemala.
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 Atitlan 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 summarizes the political and human rights situation in Belize.
Amnesty International summarizes the political and human rights situation in Haiti.
Amnesty International summarizes the political and human rights situation in the Dominican Republic.
AMURT - Haiti operates numerous programs including educational, urban ecology, rural environmental initiative and rural healthcare. AMURT - Haiti offers daily mobile health clinics in underserved areas of Port au Prince and the NW Artibonite. In addition, AMURT-Haiti runs a homeopathy program in Commune Anse Rouge, and supports the health clinic it built in Commune Terre-Neuves.
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