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Healthcare
Improvement Program
Hope and Home promotes sustainable solutions to world poverty and
disparity through global partnerships in development, education, health,
and service.
Each
year, many Nepalese die or suffer unnecessarily due to lack of
health education and access to adequate health care resources.
The sick in the mountain regions or villages sometimes die long
before a physician can even diagnose. Because of the poor
transportation, patients often have to be hand-carried in bamboo
baskets to the nearest health center, often many miles from
their village.
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If we do not change our direction we are likely
to end up where we are headed for.
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Chinese Proverb |

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Individuals
with special knowledge in the following areas are always needed.
- Primary Care and General
Medicine
- General Dentistry/ Oral
Surgery
- Pediatrics
- Gynecology and Women's Health
- Health Education
- HIV/AIDS counseling
HOPE & HOME: Volunteer Program is
working to address these issues by sponsoring village level
community health initiatives, to do this we need volunteers who
can train Nepalese health workers as well as provide direct
health care services.
Our Medicine projects are an invaluable
preparation for a career in medicine. You will experience the
stark contrast between Western medical practice and the
realities of medicine in developing countries. Sadly, you will
also see medical conditions that have remained untreated and
have developed to an advanced pathological stage uncommon in
developed countries
The key requirements in a medical volunteer
are initiative, enthusiasm, and readiness to work in unfamiliar
circumstances - a surgery with minimal equipment, an
understaffed hospital, a clinic for leprosy or tuberculosis
patients. This program has the potential to give you plenty of
hands-on experience and exposure to the medical field.
HIV/AIDS Care and
Education Program
In Nepal there is a serious stigma attached to those
with HIV/AIDS. People have limited knowledge about HIV/AIDS; many poor
people inNepal are not educated enough to understand the causes of AIDS
and how it is transmitted.
The instability that creates the problem of human
trafficking also generates considerable labor migration and internal
displacement. Most migrants and internally displaced persons are men who
move to urban areas either in search of employment or to escape the
Maoist insurgency, leaving their partners in rural areas. As a result,
Nepalese women face a higher risk of infection when their partners
return home from areas of high HIV prevalence. Compounding the problem,
many health facilities in rural areas of Nepal are either damaged or
destroyed completely. Nepal’s current lack of strong community
cohesiveness is creating a high risk environment for HIV infection.
Whilst prevalence in Nepal remains low relative to countries in Africa,
latest figures show that over 60,000 people have the HIV infection and
there is increasing alarm that the disease is escalating.
People who become infected are often excluded from
their own family's home and from society. In Kathmandu, some
organizations are working to improve HIV/AIDS awareness, education, and
care of HIV-infected patients. The goal of these groups' activities is
to foster awareness of the disease and work to change attitudes and
behavior towards those unfortunate enough to be infected. These clinics
are involved in many worthwhile activities:
Volunteers in this project will work with local
groups and will be responsible for a variety of tasks:
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Counseling activities
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Skill-sharing and training activities
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Rendering help in treatment (trained volunteers with a health care
background
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only)
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Helping to prepare and present educational programs
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Any related help requested by local organizations
If you have any questions, please
contact us, we would love
to hear from you. |