International Center for Equal Healthcare Access (ICEHA) http://www.iceha.org

• Focus on infectious diseases with an emphasis on HIV/AIDS.

• Deploy physicians and nurses to improve clinical skills of local health care providers by using a method of clinical mentoring and informal didactic training.

• Deploy physician assistants, and pharmacists to work as a team with volunteer physicians.

• Volunteer service is a minimum of 2 months, not usually long term.

• Of the PEPFAR countries, have experience in Côte d’Ivoire, Nigeria, and Vietnam.

• Volunteers do not provide care but only build local clinical expertise.

• Volunteers donate their time.

• Addresses HIV/AIDS.

JHPIEGO http://www.jhpiego.org

• Focus on building capacity, promoting sound health policies, learning innovatively, developing networks, and promoting best practices.

• Hire local staff, third country nationals, expatriots, or consultants.

• Works in 37 countries, has offices in 14 countries including many of the PEPFAR focus countries.

• Addresses HIV/AIDS and close ties to Johns Hopkins University provide easy access to expertise from internationally known leaders in the field.

UMCOR http://gbgm-umc.org/umcor

• Work in 88 countries, 20 of which have large projects.

• Deploys about 187,000 volunteers a year (both domestically and internationally) in teams of 10.

• Volunteers pay their own way.

• Deployments range from months to years.

• Qualifications vary with assignment.

• Some assignments may address HIV/AIDS.