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This presentation will review the various suppliers available for short term mission pharmacy. Their processes, lead times, product availability and cost considerations will be presented.

In this interactive session we will discuss what makes HIV prevention and ministry effective, the importance of the active involvement of the church in HIV and why it is essential to tailor strategies to local culture. The session will be based on the experience of the facilitator in HIV prevention (since 1985) and in empowering nationals to develop their own unique approaches to and tools for HIV minsitry around the world.

Wholistic health has been understood in many different ways, most of the time focused on different aspects of the individual with little attention to the sociopolitical and cultural factors. Individual health status and life styles are clearly determined by multiple factors and historical contexts in which individuals are immersed. This workshop looks at a 20-year case study in Latin America developing and refining a comprehensive approach which sees health as simultaneously a gift from God and a right/responsibility of each person and of society. Health is a journey manifested in a dynamic process of self-empowered families & communities gaining control over an integrated web of health determinants that enables them the construction meaningful and sustainable families and society. The workshop presents a ?10/40/60 comprehensive model? that allows communities organizations, churches and government to invest resources and energies on three type of efforts: ?Curative interventions?/?Preventive care?/?Building healthy environments, healthy behaviors & healthy policies?. Self-empowerment process in families & communities allows to gain control over their personal and social health determinants. The traditional goal of ?Health for All? needs a new approach of ?All for Health? in which the ?priesthood of the believers? can be embodied constructing healthy environments, healthy behaviors and healthy policies that allow nurturing and sustainable conditions for the coming generations.

There is a great shortage of well-trained health care workers. Healthcare education in many nations does not effectively prepare students to be able to work independently upon graduation. These nations focus on use of the lecture method, rather than methods which facilitate adult learning. Realizing this is a problem, nations are increasingly requesting training in how to teach effectively. This session will outline more effective, interactive methods to use in teaching adults to enable them learn more effectively, retain what is taught and be able to put what they have learned into practice.

This session will explore how to prepare to minister to the vast spiritual and emotional needs of disaster victims. Often medical missionaries are among the first responders to traumatic events. Information from scripture, crisis intervention research, and the medical arena will be offered to equip individuals and teams to better work in those conditions.

This session will explore how to prepare to minister to the vast spiritual and emotional needs of disaster victims. Information will be shared on how to prepare yourself and your team to work in such devastating emotional conditions.

This session will address three questions: What are the cultural origins of health-related behavior? How can we help people and communities change health-related behavior through changes in the cultural origins of their behavior? How does community health promote the spiritual being of the people?

This session will address three questions: What are the cultural origins of health-related behavior? How can we help people and communities change health-related behavior through changes in the cultural origins of their behavior? How does community health promote the spiritual being of the people?