Doctors, nurses, and other health care professionals work in front-line care, primary health care and preventative education. All are committed to pass on their skills to local colleagues.

Under the umbrella ‘HOPE for AIDS’, SIM is responding with love and compassion to the HIV and AIDS pandemic, providing care as well as education.

Child nutrition classes and adult literacy are combined to improve the lives of women in India.

Creating access to clean water and planting churches go together in northern Ghana.

Training teenagers as peer counsellors for those infected with AIDS equips the church in Ethiopia to respond to a pandemic.

Around the world, SIM personnel, in partnership with local believers and churches, are demonstrating the love of Jesus Christ by improving the physical health of children, women and men.

Not only do individuals benefit. The health needs of whole communities, families and congregations are also being addressed through hospitals, clinics, and community-based health education.

Whether SIM personnel are performing surgery, providing ante-natal care to mothers, or training a local church to develop AIDS prevention workshops, all SIM health work is integrated with evangelism, discipleship and Bible teaching.

SIM’s response to the HIV and AIDS pandemic is HOPE for AIDS. We partner with national churches in Africa and India to be Jesus’ hands and feet in HOPE:

Home-based care

Orphans and vulnerable children

Prevention

Enabling the Church to respond

Visit the SIM HOPE for AIDS website.

Two thousand years ago Christ came to heal the sick and forgive sins. Today people working with SIM bring the same message of healing and hope to communities around the globe.

For more details about SIM hospitals and opportunities to serve in medical ministry, click here for a downloadable brochure.