Our Programs

Chidamoyo Hospital operates a 100-bed facility that includes a wide range of medical services – including labor and delivery, operations, x-rays, lab services, and pharmaceutical services. With Zimbabwe facing significant economic and health challenges, the hospital’s services are needed more than ever.

Through its 18 outreach clinics, Chidamoyo Hospital has vaccinated over half a million children against preventable diseases over the last four decades. The outreach clinics also provide life-saving anti-retroviral medications to thousands of patients who are living with AIDS. Additionally, Chidamoyo provides HIV testing and counseling for adults, teens and kids living with HIV.

Chidamoyo provides holistic pre-natal and neo-natal care to both mothers and babies through its 95-bed New Waiting Mother's Shelter and the newly constructed Kathy McCarty Memorial Neo-Natal building. Through these dedicated facilities Chidamoyo is able to deliver this specialized care as well as educational and family planning services. Chidamoyo delivers approximately 1,500 babies a year and has essentially eliminated in utero transmission of HIV from mother to child.

Chidamoyo Hospital has provided over 3,500 scholarships to high school girls. Students in this program receive school fees and books in exchange for working several hours a week at Chidamoyo. Unfortunately, school is not free in Zimbabwe and families with little resources often send only their male children to school. This scholarship program seeks to help female students obtain their high school diploma while also learning important job and life skills through their work at Chidamoyo.

Zimbabwe is a country of orphans. About 1.5 million children live without parents – about 15% of the population. Chidamoyo Hospital is helping address this social crisis by providing formula and health care to infants who have been orphaned by the AIDS crisis or other tragedies.