Source

Treatment supplies for 17,000 patients expected to arrive next week

Stamford, Conn. – May 2, 2012 – AmeriCares is rushing to deliver more than 100,000 liters of IV solutions for victims of the worsening cholera epidemic in Haiti. The emergency shipment contains enough IV fluids to treat at least 17,000 of the most seriously ill patients. Already more than 7,000 people have died since the outbreak began in October 2010 and reported cases have been on the rise again with the return of the rainy season.

Medical aid and advance preparation will help 100,000+ people in need

AmeriCares frontline cholera response continues in Haiti amid an alarming rise in cases reported in the northern and western regions of the country. Our Haiti team is working to save as many lives as possible, delivering aid to treat people in immediate need, and supporting programs to prevent the spread of this deadly diarrheal disease.

The most recent AmeriCares shipment included medical aid to help more than 100,000 people:

Water delivered; medical aid, relief supplies and AmeriCares relief workers to arrive on Friday

As shattered communities throughout the South and Midwest begin massive post-tornado clean-up, AmeriCares has responded with shipments of water, medical aid, relief supplies and nutritional supplements to help survivors in the hard-hit state of Kentucky.

Hot meals help 13,000 displaced survivors regain lifesaving connections

Isolation kills. In Japan, there is even a word for death by loneliness and neglect—kodokushi. Japanese health care experts know that the 300,000 people left homeless by the earthquake and tsumani are at risk—already, some kodokushi deaths have been reported.

After the 1995 Kobe earthquake, Japanese health officials estimated 200 deaths due to kodokushi. Not all effects are immediate: Isolation also increases risk for heart disease, cancer and alcoholism.

Medical and food aid fills crucial gap for vulnerable children and adults in crisis

Throughout the fall of 2011, the worst flooding in half a century left millions of people in Southeast Asia struggling to survive amid widespread destruction and food shortages. AmeriCares immediately responded to urgent requests for aid with emergency grants to partners in Vietnam and Cambodia for the purchase and distribution of food and relief items to help thousands of survivors in dire need.

$10,000 grant provides crucial food aid to families in Vietnam

In the northern towns of Shizugawa and Utatsu, Japan, the earthquake and tsunami of March 11, 2011 wiped away everything familiar — including much of the health care infrastructure. As an important step in rebuilding the region’s health care system, AmeriCares recently supported the construction of two dental clinics, bringing 10,000 survivors access to treatment.

This program is one of several longer-term health initiatives that AmeriCares has helped to identify and develop, working with key partners in efforts to restore health care.

AmeriCares ongoing flood relief helps more than 10,000 families

January 10, 2012

Two thousand pounds of urgently needed medical aid arrived in Manila, the Philippines, on December 28—the most recent shipment in AmeriCares’ ongoing effort to help ease profound human suffering for more than 10,000 families in this flood-ravaged nation.

Join us in saving lives in the Philippines and around the world. »

Immediate Response

When six-year-old Anudha plays with his buddies on the new playground at Lady Ridgeway Hospital in Sri Lanka, he gets to experience the joy and liberation of walking unassisted. Before the therapeutic playground was built, Anudha, who has cerebral palsy, and many other children like him, could not walk or play on their own.

Pre-positioned relief supplies flown to remote Mindanao

Despite the logistical challenges presented by severe flooding and waist-high mud on the flood-ravaged Mindanao Island in the Philippines, two emergency aid shipments containing AmeriCares donations have been delivered by helicopter to survivors living in evacuation centers.