A Brief Introduction to TaiwanIHA       1. Basic Concept              The founding vision of TaiwanIHA is to give back to the international community. By integrating, and effectively managing, the domestic manpower, material resources, and equipment available for health aid, TaiwanIHA helps developing nations with their everyday medical and health needs, and can also provide timely humanitarian aid anywhere in the world when disasters occur.       2. Goals     Consolidating resources available for international medical and health aid from both the public and private sector Cooperating with the WHO and its regional offices, and other international humanitarian aid organizations, to provide various kinds of medical and humanitarian aid to assist developing nations in improving the quality of their public health and medical care Demonstrating our efforts in humanitarian care and willingness to give back to the international community, as well as our commitment to abide by the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) of the United Nations Promoting international cooperation and peace, and facilitating the sustainable development of the world   3. Directions: Maximizing the use of available resources at home and abroad     Designing a system for facilitating the recruitment of overseas medical and health aid personnel, producing a list of people who can dedicate themselves to overseas aid, and forming an international medical rescue team Assembling all kinds of medical equipment, medical supplies, mobile hospitals, etc., to be used for overseas humanitarian and medical aid Coordinating with the following to jointly offer medical care overseas: the International Cooperation Development Fund (ICDF), hospitals, Protestant/Catholic/Buddhist charity groups, including the Buddhist Compassion Relief Tzu Chi Foundation Taiwan, Fo Guang Shan Monastery, Taiwan Root Medical Peace Corps, Foundation of Medical Professional Alliance in Taiwan (FMPAT), Taiwan International Medical Alliance and Taiwan Hospital Association   4. Concrete Steps: Formulating practical steps towards achieving TaiwanIHAs goals, such as:     holding specialist seminars on public health, etc. training medical personnel from developing countries providing medical equipment, health facilities and medical supplies facilitating bilateral health and medical cooperation projects and entering into bilateral health and medical cooperation agreements based on each countrys medical and health development needs providing humanitarian relief and health and medical assistance to countries affected by natural disasters participating in global and regional epidemic prevention programs for malaria, HIV/AIDS, SARS, avian flu, and other new diseases in accordance with the WHOs disease reporting system helping developing countries with their medical and health infrastructure cooperating with the ICDF and other organizations to set up resident medical teams sending volunteer medical missions to other countries