Program Highlight In 2020, the Astellas Global Health Foundation began providing transformational support to Americares Family Clinic in rural Usulután, El Salvador. The clinic is small but mighty—providing high-quality, affordable clinical consultations—more than 78,000 in 2018-19. The project is strengthening community resilience through clinical, community health and disaster preparedness efforts using a multi-layered approach to promoting health and resilience in some of the most impoverished communities in the region. The project also includes a poverty access fund set up to ensure that even those who are the most remote or who have the least amount of resources can receive the ongoing, compassionate care they need at the clinic.
El Salvador Health Program in Action The Astellas Global Health Foundation recently awarded Americares $600,000 to support its health and resiliency programming in El Salvador, helping to ensure the health-focused relief and development organization can continue providing quality health services for vulnerable families like Susy’s.
About Astellas and The Astellas Global Health Foundation Astellas Pharma Inc., based in Tokyo, Japan, is a company dedicated to improving the health of people around the world through the provision of innovative and reliable pharmaceutical products. At Astellas, our responsibility extends beyond our medical innovations, so we hold ourselves accountable to our community and to those with whom we work and partner. Each day, we strive to build a brighter future for patients, customers, our community and each other by changing tomorrow. The Astellas Global Health Foundation is a tax-exempt, non-profit corporation that awards grants to support charitable purposes with a focus on improving access to health in underserved global communities, building resilient communities and providing disaster support in order to make a sustainable impact on the health of people around the world, working toward “One World, A Healthier Tomorrow.”