About Us
OUR HISTORY
About Medical Visions For Peace (MVP)
Medical Visions Peace (MVP) was founded as a tax exempt non-profit 501(c) (3) non-governmental organization in 1990. Its primary mission is to promote and foster the well-being of the under-served rural community by emphasizing preventive health and acute care education programs. MVP believes that health education in under-served rural communities creates awareness regarding the most useful way of utilizing often overlooked abundant resources commonly found in these communities. MVP began programs in Port Harcourt, Nigeria in January 2002 in order to address continuing medical education and emergency medical care needs in the city and surrounding under-served communities. This included a Pediatrics Advanced Life Support provider course provided in partnership with Physicians for Peace. This program has been expanded to include Maternal-Child intervention programs such as Helping Babies Breath, an activity supported by American Academy of Pediatrics and World Health Organization.
Several nurses and volunteers from the Tidewater area and beyond travel several times a year to teach initial neonatal care to village mothers, deliver primary care to children and the elderly by providing medications for common ailments. These medications are often donated by drug companies here in the USA.
Treatable illnesses, such as malaria, typhoid, pneumonia, diarrhea from horrible water sources, infected cuts on children who often walk barefooted often lead to serious morbidity. Mothers and their newborns are often malnourished. An important component of the mission is to teach the rural villagers the principle of disease prevention, nutrition and empowerment through self-sufficiency programs. MVP provides much needed care and each trip is highly anticipated.
Preventive care
MVP strives to deliver preventive health education services in underserved communities of Sub-Saharan Africa. MVP is affiliated with Chief Timothy and Comfort Aloba Foundation (CTACAF) dedicated to providing safe drinking water in line with World Health Organization’s (WHO) push for Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH). Good health depends on access to WASH programs. The WHO holds that access to safe drinking water is a human right. MVP is proud to affiliate with CTACAF in this crucial area of preventive medical care.
WHAT WE LOVE TO DO
Our goals and objectives
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To promote primary care education programs in various areas of maternal and child health, dysmetabolic syndromes, HIV/AIDS, nutrition, malaria sickle cell disease and other primary health care issues unique to rural communities
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To provide basic emergency training to health care professionals and assistance who provide care in the rural setting.
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To measure outcome of health education intervention to provide data for guidance for future missions.
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Contact Offices
USA Office
680 Kingsborough Square,
Chesapeake, VA 23320, USA
Nigeria Office
15 Ohaeto Street, D-line,
Port Harcourt Rivers State. Nigeria
