An initiative based on new funding. A vital addition to the provision of healthcare in East Timor.

This is a private, not for profit, initiative by Australians to assist East Timor (Timor-Leste) to provide medical care for its people.

East Timor, only 400km from Australia's shores has more than a million citizens now in 2009.The population is doubling in the next 18 years as East Timor has the highest birth rate in the world.

As a newly independent country with an extremely low per capita income there are many challenges in all areas.

Healthcare is complex and affected by poor sanitation, a lack of clean water, malnutrition, unemployment, tropical and infectious diseases, difficult geography, low levels of education and literacy, a lack of knowledge of basic principles of biology, health and healthcare and traditions and past experiences which lead the people of East Timor to seek the care of traditional healers rather than modern medicine. The Healthcare system is under resourced in physical and human terms.

The Ministry of Health of the Democratic Republic of East Timor, with the assistance of international advisers, has excellent plans in place and is making progress, however the task is huge, the gap between where care is and should be is very great and everyone acknowledges that healthcare in East Timor falls dramatically below the minimum acceptable. This can be verified by reading the Ministry of Health's May 2007 Basic Services Package.

The Hospital of Hope aims to fill some of these gaps in the areas of Hospital care and aims to ensure that every effort is made to make this care available to the whole population across all parts of the nation in a timely fashion.

16 June 2009	Update 2
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26 Feb 2009	Update 1
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1st Dec 2009	Hospital of Hope present to the people of Timor-Leste for 2007
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