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Health Volunteers Overseas

Health Volunteers Overseas

医院和医疗保健

We envision a world where all people have access to high quality health care delivered by local health professionals.

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HVO envisions a world where all people have access to expert health care delivered by local health professionals. To realize this vision, HVO invests in equitable, two-way and sustainable partnerships with over 75 health institutions world-wide to address the health work force shortage. HVO is dedicated to improving the availability and quality of health care through the education, training and professional development of the health workforce in resource-scarce countries. The goal is not only to train new health care professionals, but also to encourage and to sustain professionals so that they can continue to practice in their home countries where their skills are most urgently needed. HVO accomplishes its mission by sending highly qualified health care professionals on short-term volunteer assignments; offering scholarships for local health professionals to attend regional or international conferences or workshops; providing fellowships to support focused, longer term volunteer placements; and delivering remote e-learning and mentorship. HVO invested in scaling its e-learning capacities in response to the COVID-19 pandemic and envisions e-learning as an integral part of its programming going forward. HVO volunteers provide clinical and/or didactic teaching and mentorship, collaborate on curriculum design, influence national health policy, and promote realistic health interventions using locally available resources and technology. HVO has been committed to accountability and ethical practices throughout our 30+ year history, recognized by our inclusion in the Better Business Bureau Wise Giving Alliance and Platinum Status on GuideStar.

网站
https://www.hvousa.org
所属行业
医院和医疗保健
规模
11-50 人
总部
Washington, D.C.
类型
非营利机构
创立
1986
领域
Global Health、Health Worker Education、Sustainable Development和Volunteering

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    1900 L Street, NW

    Suite 310

    US，Washington, D.C. ，20036

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  • Neurosurgeon Tiffany Perry has been bringing multidisciplinary teams to Uganda since 2017 to teach on topics related to spine injuries and care. After the team's visit last month, Dr. Edward Kironde, head of the spine unite at Mulago National Referral Hospital, shared the following: "We are so grateful for the opportunity you gave us and the patients during the spine surgical camp week. The surgeries made a big difference in all the lives touched. We look forward to more growth towards achieving all the targets and challenges that we identified during the week. Looking forward to our monthly spine zoom meetings."

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  • HVO has opened a new project in Belize City, Belize to provide continuing education to physical therapists, medical providers, and medical students. Volunteers may be asked to provide didactic lectures, clinical instructions, and demonstration workshops in-person or online. Topics the site has requested training on include back and neck pain, neurorehablitation, home health care, and many more. Interested volunteers should be licensed or retired physical therapists with content expertise specific to the unit being taught and previous teaching experience. Attending the APTA CSM in Houston, Texas? Visit HVO staff at booth 719 to learn more about volunteer opportunities.

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  • HVO’s rehabilitation project at Kamuzu University of Health Sciences (KUHeS) in Blantyre, Malawi, expanded to recruiting OTs in the fall of 2024 to assist with content development for their new OT bachelors program. Two volunteers have recently begun assisting with the project virtually, and there is demand for in-person volunteers as well. A leader of the program, Sally Feyi-Waboso, MSc (OT), BSc (Hons), said, “We hope to gain enhanced expertise as each partner brings unique skills and insights, fosters innovation, and improves decision-making. A partnership can bring recognition to both our organizations and provide exposure. This partnership will also help us address our need of accessing expertise with curriculum development.” If you are attending the APTA CSM in Houston, Texas, visit HVO in the exhibit hall at booth 719 to learn more about current volunteer opportunities.

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  • Today is Digital Learning Day! HVO began its e-learning program in 2021 as a response the COVID-19 pandemic. It was so successful that e-learning has remained an integral part of programs, expanding the number of volunteers and partners who can participate and increasing the reach of training. In 2024, 100 volunteers completed 100 virtual assignments!

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  • “The support from HVO and the many volunteers that have come to teach at LFHC has created nurse anesthetists that are experts in regional anesthesia.? The LFHC nurse anesthetists have taken the next step and they are teaching others in Laos.”? -- Dr. Richard Henker, PhD, CRNA, FAAN, FAANA Read about the work Dr. Henker and the HVO anesthesia project have been doing at Lao Friends Hospital for Children here: https://ow.ly/Wyv250UWW6z

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  • “Uganda has launched a trial of a vaccine against the Sudan strain of the Ebola virus, following an outbreak in the country that has killed one person and infected two others…The WHO is collaborating with Uganda's ministry of health, the Uganda Virus Research Institute, and the Makerere University Lung Institute to conduct the trial. ‘This marks a major milestone in public health emergency response and demonstrates the power of collaboration for global health security,’ said WHO director for Africa Matshidiso Moeti.” https://lnkd.in/d8uRNaKJ

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