CMMB (Catholic Medical Mission Board)

Catholic Medical Mission Board
Abbreviation CMMB
Formation 1912-1928
Founder Dr. Paluel Flagg
Type 501(c)(3)
Legal status Active
Focus Women’s and children’s health
Headquarters

100 Wall Street, 9th Floor

New York, NY 10005
Region served
Worldwide
Key people
 Bruce Wilkinson (CEO)
John Celentano (Board Chair)
Employees
318 (2015)
Volunteers
629 (2015)
Website www.cmmb.org

The Catholic Medical Mission Board (CMMB) is an international, faith-based NGO, providing long-term, co-operative medical and development aid to communities affected by poverty and healthcare issues.[1] It was established in 1912 and officially registered in 1928. CMMB is headquartered in New York City, USA, and currently has country offices in Haiti, Kenya, Peru, South Sudan, and Zambia.[2]

CMMB’s health programs include Children and Mothers Partnerships (CHAMPS), shipping of medical supplies, placement of international medical and non-medical volunteers,[3] HIV/AIDS,[4][5] prevention and treatment of neglected tropical diseases,[6] and disaster relief to areas that experienced natural or political catastrophes.[7] In 2015, CMMB provided health services to 680,000 people, including 200,000 pregnant women and children under age of five, trained 3,843 health workers, and placed 1,200 volunteers.[8] CMMB actively works with the U.S. government on programming, such as the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) and[9][10] USAID.[11] CDC[12] multilateral donors include UNICEF,[13] UNHCR,[14] and PAHO,[4] and public-private partnerships, including the Survive and Thrive Global Development Alliance.[15]

Programs

CHAMPS

Children and Mothers Partnerships (CHAMPS) is CMMB's long-term initiative to address the leading causes of maternal and child death, disability, and illness, including diarrhea, pneumonia, malaria and HIV. The program works both at community and clinical levels throughout Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean.[16] It addresses common causes of poor health, including access to clean water, healthcare facilities and medicine supply, sanitation, agriculture/nutrition, and socio-economic development.[17]

Healing Help and Volunteer Programs

Sending volunteers and medical supplies to resource-poor areas are two of the original and continuing programs of CMMB.[18] The Healing Help[19] pharmaceutical program distributes donated medicines and medical supplies. Over eight years CMMB provided over US$2 billion worth of donated medicines to local healthcare partners in 120 countries.[20] CMMB’s volunteer program provides medical and business expertise for community development at faith-based facilities in Haiti, Kenya, Peru, South Sudan, Zambia, and elsewhere.[3][18]

HIV/AIDS

CMMB provides HIV/AIDS care, treatment, and support across all age groups and genders. Between 2003 and 2013 CMMB has participated in the U.S. government-funded AIDS Relief care and treatment program (PEPFAR)[21] which has helped more than 700,000 HIV-infected people worldwide.[9] It also partnered with the Choose To Care program of the Southern African Catholic Bishops Conference, which was funded by the Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation and others, lending assistance to more than 140 community-based initiatives in South Africa, Namibia, Swaziland, Lesotho, and Botswana.[22]

History

The history of CMMB (known as a committee of the Catholic Hospital Association until 1927) dates back to 1912, when a personal tragedy inspired CMMB’s founder Dr. Paluel J. Flagg to commit to medical missionary work, beginning with leprosy patients in Haiti.[2]

For many decades, CMMB prioritized the shipping of medical supplies and equipment to missionaries and health partners around the world.[23] In 1949, Bishop Fulton J. Sheen, television personality and national director of the Society of the Propagation of the Faith, joined CMMB’s board and served for 26 years.[2] Another stalwart supporter of CMMB has been the surgeon Tom Catena.[24][25]

In 2002, CMMB introduced Born To Live,[26] a program designed for the prevention of mother-to-child (PMTCT) transmission of HIV which affected nearly 60,000 women in Haiti, Kenya and South Sudan.

In 2003, CMMB launched Action for Family Health to help reduce the mortality and morbidity rates of children in five Central American and Caribbean countries, through a partnership with the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), Catholic healthcare networks, and the respective Ministries of Health in each country,[6] providing deworming medicines to children.[27]

In 2004, CMMB supported international and local partners in response to the tsunami disaster, committing US$3.1 million in health aid to survivors in India, Indonesia, and Sri Lanka.[28]

CMMB became a member of the AIDS Relief consortium in response to President Bush's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief.[9]

In 2010, CMMB provided over US$49 million and over 500 tons of pharmaceutical and medical supplies worth US$46.7 million to Haiti for earthquake relief through its local partners,[29] and co-founded the Haiti Amputee Coalition to provide amputees with urgent medical care, basic needs, therapy and high-quality prostheses.[30]

In 2013, CMMB delivered medicine and medical supplies valued at more than US$10 million to survivors of typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda) in the Philippines.

Country Offices

Haiti

CMMB’s work in Haiti goes back to 1912[31] and focuses on providing treatment and medicine for people living with HIV/AIDS.[29] It is also building a primary healthcare facility, the Bishop Joseph M. Sullivan Center for Health, in Côtes-de-Fer, which will make basic and emergency care available to 55,000 Haitians. Joseph M. Sullivan had been Bishop of Brooklyn, New York, and on CMMB's Board of Directors.[32]

Kenya

CMMB has run comprehensive HIV care programs in Kenya since 2003. In 2010, CMMB was providing life-saving antiretroviral treatment to nearly 47,000 Kenyans, and through its mentors helps more than 24,000 people living with HIV/AIDS,[29] including issues like social stigma, in Kenya, South Sudan and Haiti.

CMMB’s Women Fighting AIDS Kenya (WOFAK) is a community-based organization, providing prevention education, support groups, and clinical and nutritional care to 15,000 women and 5,000 children each year.[33] CMMB provides voluntary medical male circumcision services[34] as part of a comprehensive HIV-prevention package[35] in Nairobi and Kisumu County.

Peru

CMMB focuses on improving the health and nutrition of children under the age of five and pregnant women in under-served areas of Peru. It trains professional and community healthcare workers, advises parents on health and nutrition, provides nutritional supplementation to malnourished children, institutes community health-surveillance, and addresses issues of economic self-sufficiency through agricultural programs.[36] A special program offers holistic care for children with mental disabilities.

In 2010-2013, CMMB, Bon Secours Health System, CHRISTUS Health, and Caritas del Peru partnered to implement the Unidos Contra la Mortalidad Infantil (United Against Infant Mortality) program,[36] which was designed to decrease morbidity and mortality in children under five years of age.

South Sudan

CMMB’s work in South Sudan includes HIV/AIDS prevention, care, and treatment, refugee health services, gender-based violence prevention, child protection, and primary healthcare.

In 2009, CMMB established ANISA, healthcare initiatives to support local HIV/AIDS program. ANISA, meaning “together” in the Zande language, aims to reduce the incidences of new HIV infections through HIV testing and counseling, and to prevent PMTCT and sexual transmission of the disease.[37] CMMB partners with World Vision which provides community outreach in HIV prevention for a target audience of over 120,000 people annually.[38]

Since 2012, CMMB trains and provides support to birth attendants and nurses in safe delivery and infant health, along with ambulance services.[39]

Zambia

CMMB focuses on maternal and child health including a four-year program for prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV (PMTCT),[40] increasing uptake of voluntary medical male circumcision, and HIV counseling and testing (HCT),[11] implementing community-based HIV prevention programs and preventing and treating malaria, TB, and leprosy.

CMMB promotes male involvement[41] in antenatal clinics and responsibility for the health of the family under the Men Taking Action (MTA™) model,[42] including PMTCT, HCT services, and antiretroviral (ARV) treatment at 31 participating Church Health Institutions.[43]

Between 2009-2012, CMMB managed the USAID-funded Malaria Communities Program under the President's Malaria Initiative (PMI) in the high transmission Luapula Province.[44]

Recognition

  • Ranked #3 on CNBC's Top 10 Charities Changing the World in 2015.[45]
  • Ranked #33 on Forbes The 50 Largest U.S. Charities in 2015.[46]
  • Ranked #62 on The Philanthropy 400 in 2015.[47]
  • Received Charity Navigator’s "4 Star Charity" ranking in 2015, for a fifth consecutive year.[48]
  • Ranked #5 on Charity Navigator’s “10 of the Best Charities Everyone’s Heard Of”.[48]
  • “BBB Accredited Charity” in 2014.[49]
  • Ranked #48 on The NonProfit Times Top 100 in 2012.[50]
  • In 2006 UNAIDS recognized CMMB’s HIV/AIDS programs as a “best practice” in global health.[22]
  • In 1989 won the Damien-Dutton Award that honored its work with lepers.[51]

References

  1. ↑ m|Oppenheim TV, "INSIGHT: Bruce Wilkinson – Catholic Medical Mission Board", Interview. September 2, 2015
  2. 1 2 3 Tom Gallagher, "Catholic organization exports US health care to the poor around the world", National Catholic Reporter. January 31, 2013
  3. 1 2 WHO, Members, CMMB. Retrieved on 03/03/2016
  4. 1 2 Give.org, Catholic Medical Mission Board. Retrieved on 06/22/2016
  5. ↑ amFAR, Welcome. Retrieved on 07/05/2016
  6. 1 2 Georgetown University, Berkley Center, Catholic Medical Mission Board. Retrieved on 03/03/2016
  7. ↑ Charity Navigator, Catholic Medical Mission Board. Retrieved on 03/15/2016
  8. ↑ Valentina Ieri, "NGO Pledges $500 Million Towards Sustainable Development Goals". Retrieved on 06/22/2016
  9. 1 2 3 Relief Web, "CMMB Celebrates Saving More than 700,000 Lives Globally through the AIDSRelief Program", published 08/12/2013.
  10. ↑ Institute of Human Virology, AIDSRELIEF CONSORTIUM. Retrieved on 07/06/2016
  11. 1 2 USAID, Community and Government Networks’ Partnerships Improves the Referral Systems and Coordination of PMTCT and HCT Services in Zambia. Retrieved on 06/22/2016
  12. ↑ CDC, Caotholic Medical Mission Board Health Programs. Retrieved on 07/06/2016
  13. ↑ UNICEF, "UNICEF and the Catholic Medical Mission Board join forces to fight AIDS", updated 03/02/2006.
  14. ↑ ReliefWeb, South Sudan UNHCR Operational Update no. 26/2015, 2-7 July 2015. Published 07/07/2015
  15. ↑ The Survive and Thrive Global Development Alliance, Progress Reports. Retrieved on 07/06/2016
  16. ↑ Every Woman Every Child, Catholic Medical Mission Board (CMMB). Retrieved on 06/22/2016
  17. ↑ Valentina Ieri, "NGO Pledges $500 Million Towards Sustainable Development Goals", United Nations. Published on 03/25/2016
  18. 1 2 Catholic Volunteer Network, CMMB Volunteer Program. Retrieved on 06/22/2016
  19. ↑ GuideStar, Catholic Medical Mission Board. Retrieved on 03/08/2016
  20. ↑ Philanthropy News Digest, "CMMB Pledges $500 Million for UN’s Sustainable Development Goals". Published on 03/22/2016.
  21. ↑ PEPFAR, New Partner Organizations: First Round (Updated January 2009). Retrieved on 03/08/2016
  22. 1 2 UNAIDS Best Practices. A Faith-Based Response to HIV in Southern Africa: the Choose to Care Initiative. December, 2006.
  23. ↑ Edward F. Garesche, The Catholic Medical Mission Board and its Work, The Linacre Quarterly, Volume 2, Number 4. September 1934
  24. ↑ Alex Perry, Alone and Forgotten, One American Doctor Saves Lives in Sudan’s Nuba Mountains, Time. April 25, 2012
  25. ↑ Gordon Morton, On A Mission, Brown Alumni Magazine. 2013, March/April Issue
  26. ↑ Georgetown University, Berkley Center, First Nationwide Faith-based Initiative to Fight Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV Launched in Kenya. October 14, 2002
  27. ↑ PAHO, "A Call to Action: Addressing Soil-transmitted Helminths in Latin America & the Caribbean". Retrieved on 06/22/2016
  28. ↑ Claudia McDonnel, "Tsunami Aid". Published on 02/03/2005
  29. 1 2 3 FADICA, Y and H Soda Foundation and Catholic Medical Mission Board Welcomed to FADICA Membership. Retrieved on 06/22/2016
  30. ↑ Scott Alessi, "Hope for Haiti", OSV Newsweekly. Published on 12/30/2013
  31. ↑ Colum Wood, Ferrari 458 Italia Fetches $530,000 at Auction for Haiti Relief. March 19, 2010
  32. ↑ Catholic Health Association of the United States, "CMMB to use challenge grant to build health center in Haiti". Published on 08/01/2013
  33. ↑ IAAT, Communities taking action for women, mothers and children. Retrieved on 03/03/2016
  34. ↑ CDC, Progress in Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision Service Provision — Kenya, 2008–2011. November 30, 2012
  35. ↑ Male Circumcision in a Comprehensive HIV Prevention Package, Nuanza Update, p.3. May 2010
  36. 1 2 Bon Secours Health System, Press Release, CMMB Partners with Leading Catholic Health Care Networks to Launch Major Child Survival Program in Peru. Retrieved on 03/03/2016
  37. ↑ amfAR, Detailed Mechanism Funding and Narrative. Retrieved on 06/22/2016
  38. ↑ PEPFAR, South Sudan. Operational Plan Report. FY 2011. Retrieved on 06/22/2016
  39. ↑ Theresa Consoli, Maternal Mortality in South Sudan:The Safe Motherhood Project. Retrieved on 06/22/2016
  40. ↑ KHN, BD, Catholic Medical Mission Board Launch HIV/AIDS Project in Zambia. May 13, 2005
  41. ↑ NPI-Connect, Transforming Men Into Leaders In The Fight Against HIV/AIDS. Retrieved on 03/03/2016
  42. ↑ American Public Health Association, 141st APHA Annual Meeting Recordings, Men as partners: Preventing HIV/AIDS and promoting gender equity with innovative male involvement in PMTCT and VCT services. November 4, 2013
  43. ↑ XIX International AIDS Conference, Washington DC, USA. Involvement of traditional community leaders improves uptake and community ownership of PMTCT and HCT services in rural areas of Zambia. Retrieved on 03/08/2016
  44. ↑ President’s Malaria Initiative, Malaria Operational Plan (MOP), p.19. September 19, 2011.
  45. ↑ CNBC, The Top 10 Charities Changing The World. Retrieved on 03/08/2016
  46. ↑ Forbes, Catholic Medical Mission Board On Forbes List. Retrieved on 03/08/2016
  47. ↑ The Philanthropy 400, Info graphics. Retrieved on 03/08/2016
  48. 1 2 Charity Navigator, Catholic Medical Mission Board. Historical Ratings. Retrieved on 07/07/2016
  49. ↑ BBB Wise Giving Alliance, Catholic Medical Mission Board. Retrieved on 03/08/2016
  50. ↑ The NonProfitTimes, The NPT 2012 Top 100. November 1, 2012
  51. ↑ Damien-Dutton Award. Retrieved on 06/22/2016
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