February 19, 2016
AmeriCares is delivering more than $3 million in medicine to help children and families in war-torn Syria. The shipments include antibiotics, cardiovascular medicine, intravenous fluids and diabetes medication.
January 14, 2016
Camp Ray of Hope in Romania provides children living with hemophilia a rare opportunity to be ordinary kids in summer– to play, connect and grow. AmeriCares long-term partnership with Baxter International provides a donation of blood factor coagulants that helps to make the program possible.
AmeriCares is deploying medical teams to Tamil Nadu in India, providing medical aid and humanitarian relief to survivors of the worst flooding in 100 years.
December 23, 2015
AmeriCares Emergency Team on the ground mobilizes a response as Typhoon Hagupit, the strongest storm of 2014, slams the Philippines with cyclone-force winds, storm surges and drenching rain. Immediate aid efforts and relief shipments are underway.
December 17, 2015
AmeriCares is rushing an emergency delivery of two tons of essential medicines for hospitals in Nepal running critically low on supplies due to the nationi¢â‚¬â„¢s ongoing severe fuel shortages.
December 15, 2015
AmeriCares Philippines team continues to provide critical medical and humanitarian aid to communities heavily affected by…
Responding to a request from local authorities, AmeriCares Philippines team has distributed family emergency kits and conducted an immediate needs assessment in communities in the northern region of the country affected by Typhoon Koppu.
December 03, 2015
An asthma patient finds treatment at AmeriCares mobile free clinic in Stamford CT. Access to care transforms life for the patient and his family.
November 09, 2015
The stories of two frontline health workers represent the many doctors, nurses, midwives, pharmacists and community outreach workers who directly provide health services as part of the global network of health care partners supported by AmeriCares.
November 05, 2015
AmeriCares, through a donation from Johnson & Johnson of 24 million doses of Vermox (known generically as mebendazole), is in the first year of a program to promote better child health by treating intestinal worms in vulnerable populations and communities. Doses have already been distributed to partners in 16 countries.
November 03, 2015
Free and charitable clinics that serve over 2 million patients in the U.S. are adapting their operational model in innovative ways to accommodate declining resources under the Affordable Care Act, according to a new AmeriCares study.
October 28, 2015
Two years ago, Kla Williams’s lost his job when his hometown of Monrovia, Liberia, was…
Skilled health workers are critical to a full recovery from the Ebola Outbreak in West Africa. AmeriCares is working in Liberia and Sierra Leone to strengthen the workforce and health facilities and rebuild community trust in health services.
October 24, 2015
AmeriCares emergency response experts have arrived in Mexico to assist with the recovery efforts for Hurricane Patricia that made landfall on October 23 with 165mph winds and torrential rains.
October 08, 2015
AmeriCares is rushing emergency medicine and relief supplies to South Carolina for families affected by the historic flooding. The shipments are headed to three free clinics in the state serving uninsured and low-income families
October 07, 2015
South Carolina, United States AmeriCares Responds to Historic South Carolina Flooding October 07, 2015 Newsroom,…
September 16, 2015
A Volunteer doctor on a regular medical visit to Haiti with support from AmeriCares medical outreach program is in the right place at the right time to save a severely injured young boy.
September 08, 2015
As Cyclone Komen and heavy monsoon rains trigger more floods in Myanmar and displace more people, AmeriCares is working with a local partner to assess needs and support community-based disaster risk reduction in the affected areas.
August 17, 2015
A survivor of the 2011 Japan Tsunami tells how the hand delivery of a newsletter by an AmeriCares partner in the recovery process saved his life and gave him a cause to promote and celebrate.
July 28, 2015
AmeriCares is responding with emergency medical teams, coordinated relief efforts and shipments of medical aid to help survivors of the earthquakes that rocked Nepal, killing thousands and sending the region into chaos.