Honduras
Strengthening the Public Health System since 1999
Global Links’ program in Honduras supports their Ministry of Health’s (SESAL’s) efforts to strengthen the public primary health care system for vulnerable patients, improve maternal and infant care, and help Honduran healthcare professionals respond to the year-round epidemics of tropical diseases like dengue, zika, chikungunya, and more. Global Links has been working in Honduras since 1999.
Featured Project Dates
2021-2024
Lives Impacted
921,593
Targeted Regions
Roatán, Siguatepeque, San Francisco de la Paz, Olancho
Program Highlights
- In April 2024, a devastating fire destroyed the only public hospital on the Island of Roatán in Honduras. We were contacted by the Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO), the Honduran National Health Authorities, and even the office of the President of Honduras for assistance. We sent medical supplies and furnishings that allowed the community to set up temporary health services in a donated church building while plans are being made to build the new public hospital.
- Partnered to improve health services and access among Afro-Honduran peoples in northern Honduras. Global Links participated in efforts to establish and equip the first-ever Garifuna hospital in Ciriboya, now a center for research on health issues affecting indigenous communities.
- Collaborated with the Ministry of Health (SESAL) and PAHO-Honduras to send and distribute urgently needed supplies, such as oral rehydration salts, in response to an atypically intense dengue outbreak in 2019.
- Global Links supported the government’s response to the COVID-19 emergency through the provision COVID-19 Emergency Response containers, which included furnishings, medical equipment, and supplies for the country’s public health networks and reference hospitals.
