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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

Doctors for Global Health (DGH)
Doctors for Global Health is an organization promoting health, education, art and other human rights throughout the world. Since its founding, Doctors for Global Health has attracted volunteers, including doctors and other health care workers, students, educators, attorneys, and engineers. Most of these volunteers work within their own communities, while others have also spent from a week to over a year working in Argentina, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Peru, Uganda and the United States.

Doctor's Goodwill Foundation
The Foundation provides and promotes health related education and research scholarships to all health care fields, and provides funds, equipment and scholarships for volunteers to go on charitable medical missions locally and internationally.

Doctors Without Borders/Medecins Sans Frontires (MSF)
World's largest independent NPO medical relief organization. Established ER's and an emergency obstetric hospital in Haiti since 2005.

Dr UMM: Doctors for United Medical Missions
DrUMM is a non-profit, philanthropic organization that is committed towards improving medical care in developing countries through the performance of collaborative medical projects.

Episcopal Medical Missions Foundation
Episcopal Medical Missions Foundation is an effort on the part of health professionals and other lay members of the Episcopal Church to organize and augment the support of our medical missionaries as they deliver medical and spiritual aid in the mission field.

Fellowship of Associates of Medical Evangelism (FAME)
FAME partners with other mission organizations to deliver a unique combination of medical mission services, including medical facilities, medicines and medical supplies, and short-term mission teams. Countries served include Honduras, Haiti, and the Dominican Republic.

Gift of Life International
The mission of Gift of Life International, Inc. is to further the cause of world peace and understanding by facilitating free medical services to children suffering from heart disease and other similar or allied diseases, regardless of race, gender, creed or national origin, and who would otherwise lack access to such services.

Global Health Council
The Global Health Council is the world's largest membership alliance dedicated to saving lives by improving health throughout the world.

Global Health Ministries
Resource for Lutheran health care work overseas.

Global Medical Relief (GMR)
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.

Global Medicine Network
The Global Medicine Network was created to establish personal and professional contacts among individuals and organizations working in international health and global medicine. The aim is to promote cooperative relationships in areas such as humanitarian service, medicine and supply donation, research, health education and visitor exchange. A primary goal of this website is to provide the mechanism by which members can personally contribute to the improvement of health conditions in underserved areas of the world.

Global Missions Health Conference
Since 1996, Southeast Christian Church has hosted this large global health conference featuring international experts on medical missions.

Global NGO Deworming Inventory
The Global NGO Deworming Inventory collects treatment data from non-governmental organizations (NGOs) around the world that provide anthelminthic drugs to treat soil-transmitted helminthiasis (STH), schistosomiasis, and/or lymphatic filariasis (LF). This Inventory complements the WHO Preventive Chemotherapy (PCT) databank which collects treatment data from governmental health agencies

Godisa
Godisa was started in collaboration with the Botswana Technology Centre to manufacture solar rechargeable hearing aids that could be used by hearing-impaired people living in Africa and other parts of the developing world. Its objective is to develop practical technologies for developing countries and to create employment and training opportunities for hearing disabled people.

Harvest International
Non-denominational, Christian organization ministering to the physical needs of impoverished people throughout the world. Supports some short-term medical missions.

Heal the Nations
Useful site with links to many Christian based medical missions and projects. Alphabetical listing of database.

Healing the Children
Healing the Children Chapters arrange for medical screening of the child, immigration documentation, transportation, host family support, donated medical care, and return of the child to his or her country of origin. Each year, Healing the Children chapters organize medical trips and travel to host countries to treat children and young adults free of charge.

Health Volunteers Overseas (HVO)
Health Volunteers Overseas (HVO) is a private non-sectarian voluntary organization headquartered in the United States. HVO is dedicated to improving the availability and quality of health care in developing countries through training and education.

HealthRight International (formerly Doctors of the World-USA)
HealthRight International is a global health and human rights organization founded in 1990. From 1990 through 2009, HealthRight was known as Doctors of the World-USA. They have provided medical and humanitarian assistance to those in the greatest need in more than 20 nations. Strong emphasis on human rights.

Heart Care International
The immediate goal of Heart Care International is to provide open heart surgery for poor children and young adults in developing countries. The long term goal is to train local health care professionals in the medical and surgical management of heart disease, enabling them to provide heart care within their own community. They achieve this by assisting in training local surgeons and staff during our annual missions and by bringing several of them to the U.S. They helped establish a pediatric heart surgery program at CEDAMAT in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic and at Guatemala City, Guatemala. They are currently working to establish an additional program in El Salvador.

IAM Missions (International Accelerated Missions)
IAM recruits and sends doctors, physician assistants, nurses, technicians, dentists, dental assistants, as well as medical supplies on short-term mission trips.

Institute for International Medicine (INMED)
INMED provides a unique elective in International Medicine for health professionals, including practicing physicians, dentists, nurses, resident physicians, pharmacists, medical students, and nursing students. The INMED Diploma is comprised of three elements: an international medicine course,international training and an international medicine essay. INMED cooperates with numerous international training sites to provide INMED students with exceptional clinical educational experiences.

International Children's Heart Foundation
The mission of the International Children's Heart Foundation (ICHF) is to bring the skills, technology and knowledge to cure and care for children with congenital heart disease to developing countries. They work in a number of countries including Honduras and the Dominican Republic.

International Children's Heart Fund
ICHF to promotes the international growth of cardiac surgery, particularly in children and young adults. Its focus is to remain humanitarian in perspective, avoiding political and religious overtones. Among the countries it has worked are Guatemala, Haiti and the Dominican Republic.

International College of Surgeons--Surgical Teams Program
ICS supports surgical teams humanitarian programs in order to bring surgical excellence to all parts of the world. Surgical supplies and equipment are sometimes donated to the host hospitals and medical schools they visit.

International Hospital for Children
The IHC program 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 IHC Network Hospitals, and send surgical and diagnostic missions to program countries including Guatemala, the Dominican Republic, and Honduras.

International Medical Services for Health
INMED is a U.S.-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit development organization dedicated to strengthening communities worldwide by building partnerships and programs that help enable adults and children in those communities to improve their lives.INMED was established in 1986 to serve as an effective and efficient conduit for the delivery of essential medicines, medical supplies and supporting materials to health-related nongovernmental organizations throughout the developing world.

InterVol
InterVol’s programs include the recovery of unused medical supplies for use in non-US health care facilities; the sending of medical teams to areas with significant health needs; and Friends Across Borders, which works closely with local US schools to create learning opportunities in the international communities. The medical volunteer program is currently serving Belize.

IVUmed
IVUmed (International Volunteers in Urology) is committed to making quality urological care available to people worldwide. In fulfilling this mission, IVU provides medical and surgical education to physicians and nurses, and treatment to thousands of suffering men, women, and children. They have worked in Honduras, Haiti and the Dominican Republic.

Latin America Community Assistance (LACA) Foundation
LACA's mission is to improve the lives of the rural poor in Latin America. Projects in Guatemala and Honduras, among other countries, focusing on medical and dental care for the poor.

Latin American School of Medical Science (Cuba)
Latin American School of Medical Science sends volunteer doctors in different specialties to rural areas of the countries they serve.

LEAP Foundation
LEAP Foundation medical mission teams comprised of medical specialists, nurses and general helpers have brought medical care to impoverished areas. LEAP Foundation has provided reconstructive surgery to correct cleft lips, cleft palates, congenitally absent ears, and other facial deformities and disfiguring injuries.

Lifewind International (formerly Medical Ambassadors International )
Lifewind International works through Community Health Evangelism (CHE) is a non-denominational development and missions organization which aims to help overseas communities where access to health care is poorest and where the gospel of Christ is least heard. Countries served include Guatemala, Honduras, and the Dominican Republic.

Linking Hands.
Linking Hands is a Christian organization helping to connect medical professional onto humanitarian projects in all parts of the world. These are useful links and resources from their site. This site is particularly useful for Christian medical professionals who wish to combine missionary work with medicine.

Luke Society
The Luke Society is an interdenominational organization of Christian health and business professionals dedicated to medical missions. They support indigenous Christian health professionals who have a vision to reach their own people. The focus is on community health--teaching people how to prevent disease and equipping people to care for themselves, their families and their communities.

MAP International (Medical Assistance Programs)
Christian non-profit relief and development organization promoting the total health of people living in the world's poorest communities.

Medical Ministry International
Christian interdenominational serving the poor. They have provided two-week opportunities for volunteers to work in medical, dental, surgical, and eye clinics, helping the poor who have little or no access to medical care.

Medical Missions for Children (MMC)-- Global telemedicine
The mission of Medical Missions for Children is to raise the level of health care in medically underserved communities through long-distance medicine, or "telemedicine." MMC builds a virtual information bridge between U.S. mentoring hospitals and underserved participating hospitals. The bridge facilitates the delivery of interactive real-time medical education that provides information on new techniques, procedures, pharmaceuticals, and vaccines. In addition, doctors from the U.S. mentoring hospitals provide help with difficult cases by assisting with diagnosis and providing second opinions and treatment options. When appropriate, doctors will mentor actual operations through video conferencing. Not associated with organization of same name that sends surgical and dental missions around the world (http://mmfc.org/).

Medical Mobilizers
Mobilizing medical professionals for outreach to those in need of medical care throughout the world by working in partnership with other medical missions organizations.

Medical Teams International
Medical Teams International, formerly Northwest Medical Teams International, works with partner organizations worldwide, providing surgical services, dental services, and community health programs. Includes work in Honduras, Haiti and Guatemala.

MedMissions
The Christian Medical Society of Honduras (ACMEH) works in partnership with MedMissions to reach under-served areas of Latin America. The provide health screenings, treatment, health education, and preventative health care such as pap smears.

Mending Kids International
Mending Kids, International sends medical teams to the poorest communities of the world to help children. Whenever possible they try to assist in establishing medical programs in the foreign countries they visit. If facilities or time constraints prohibit them from performing a complicated surgery, they do their best to have the child airlifted to an American hospital.

Mercy Ships
Mercy Ships, a global Christian charity, has operated a fleet of hospital ships in developing nations since 1978. Mercy Ships brings medical care to the poor, mobilizing people and resources worldwide. They use land-based teams to supplement the work of the ships. They perform operatations and bring medical assistance and long-term sustainable development.

Missionary Ventures International
MVI is a Christian healthcare ministry that sends short term medical missions to countries around the world including Guatemala, Haiti, Belize, Honduras, the Dominican Republic and Belize. Volunteers welcome.

Northwest Medical Teams International
Medical Teams International, formerly Northwest Medical Teams International, works with partner organizations worldwide, providing surgical services, dental services, and community health programs. Includes work in Honduras and Guatemala.

Operation Smile
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.

Partners in Health
Partner in Health was founded in 1987, to support the work of the the Clinique Bon Sauveur in Haiti. Today, PIH has partner projects in 7 countries spanning 3 continents. They run programs combating AIDS and women's health problems in rural Haiti, tuberculosis treatment projects in the prisons of Siberia, and the shantytowns of urban Peru, training programs for community health workers in Chiapas, Mexico, community-based mental health outreach in highland Guatemala, and a violence-prevention curriculum in inner-city Boston.

Pediatricians for Central America's Children (Pediatras para los Ninos de Centro Americia)
PFCAC is an all-volunteer, not-for-profit, organization dedicated to improving the health-care of children in Latin America. The group travels to Latin American countries bringing medical care and supplies to families in need. Works with Winthrop Univ. Hospital in Mineola, NY. Current focus in El Salvador.

Physicians For Peace
Physicians For Peace is committed to teaching new skills to health care professionals in developing countries and to provide training and high-quality medical seminars. We solicit the contributions of medicines, medical supplies and medical equipment, including artificial limbs, that we donate to needing people throughout the world.

Presbyterian Church(USA)
The International Health Ministries Office(IHMO) coordinates the ministries of the PC(USA)in international health and development. The IHMO works in partnership with overseas churches and institutions to facilitate health programs that place priority on the most vulnerable and poorest segments of the population.

Smile Train
The Smile Train is focused on solving a single problem: cleft lip and palate. Their mission is to provide free cleft surgery for millions of poor children in developing countries and to provide free cleft-related training for doctors and medical professionals. Maintains a free patient database.

Surgical Eye Expeditions (SEE) International
Non-profit organization founded to recruit, coordinate and deploy volunteer ophthalmologists, nurses and technicians to perform free, sight-restoring surgery throughout the developing world.

Technical Exchange for Christian Healthcare (TECH)
Non-denominational Christian organization founded to improve the efficiency and quality of care of medical missions and agencies worldwide.

The Christian Health Service Corps
The Christian Health Service Corps feels that there is a need in the mission community for mission organizations where a thoughtful approach to medical care is delivered. They prepare Christian medical missionaries for the complexities of cross-cultural health care both directly and through their network of organizational partners. They feel that often short-term missions don’t have an integrated focus, and the potential for doing more harm than good exists. They actively promote the WHO/UNICEF standards of practice for developing communities as the minimum standards for Christian healthcare teams

Unite for Sight
Unite For Sight is a nonprofit organization that empowers communities worldwide to improve eye health and eliminate preventable blindness. With more than 3,000 volunteers in eighty-five chapters established at universities, medical schools, corporations, high schools, and in communities worldwide, Unite For Sight works to build healthier communities through eye disease prevention, eye health promotion, and health education.

United Methodist Fellowship of Health Care Volunteers
Members of UMF/HCV are doctors, nurses, dentists, hospital managers, physical therapists, and other health-care professionals willing to witness their Christian faith through ministries of physical, mental, and spiritual healing, providing health care to a world in need. The goals are to develop and promote health-care volunteering, build an international database of potential volunteers, recruit potential team leaders and members and match them with areas of need, and provide a means of obtaining medicines, equipment, and other supplies.

Volunteers in Medical Missions
Christian Doctors, nurses, and many other volunteers that minister to the physical & spiritual needs of children & adults in developing countries throughout the world, including Dominican Republic and Central America.

World Blindness Outreach, Inc.
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

World Response
World Response projects are predominantly health-related programmes which range from providing medicines to remote rural locations, to planning and equipping a complete medical facility or providing medicines and supplies as part of a disaster relief effort. In its development work, World Response focuses predominantly on small, carefully defined projects, where limited resources can achieve maximum impact and results.