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May 16, 2012 - Los Angeles, Calif. – International Medical Corps will immediately scale up its support to the government of Chad in polio eradication activities through a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

Jaya Vadlamudi
Senior Communications Officer
310.826.7800
jvadlamudi@InternationalMedicalCorps.org

May 10, 2012 - Los Angeles, Calif. – International Medical Corps is deploying an Emergency Response Team to address the humanitarian needs of returnees arriving from Sudan back into South Sudan. Acute malnutrition and a high level of morbidity have been flagged as risks among the returning population.

Compelled to help those on the frontlines of the Libyan conflict, Igbal, a mother of four, created For Our Country, an association run by local women who delivered care packages and food to fighters. Igbal herself traveled to the frontlines to deliver food and other items to the fighters in order to “show them that the women and children of Misurata supported them.”

Even though the conflict in Libya has since ended, Igbal continues to operate the association, which now serves as a place for women and girls to gather, helps families and offers livelihoods training programs.

April 25, 2012 - Los Angeles, Calif. – International Medical Corps has partnered with the Almost Dawn in Libya (ADIL) photography project to contribute to the reconciliation of the Libyan people in the aftermath of war and to support the post-conflict rebuilding process.

April 9, 2012— Afghanistan’s coldest winter in 15 years has claimed the lives of several Afghans in recent months, most of them children. Following heavy snowfall in March, International Medical Corps’ Afghanistan team responded to an avalanche that affected Quesht, Adesho and Gola Poshala villages of the Mandol district in Nuristan Province. One of the most remote and underdeveloped provinces of Afghanistan, Nuristan lies on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, where road access is frequently cut off by heavy snowfall.

By Nancy A. Aossey and Susan W. Hayes

Burn injuries in the United States are usually easily treatable with cool water and a first aid kit. But in the developing world, millions of impoverished women and children each year suffer debilitating injuries or die from burns.

Jaya Vadlamudi
Senior Communications Officer
310.826.7800
jvadlamudi@InternationalMedicalCorps.org

March 12, 2012 – Los Angeles, Calif. – One year after a 9.0-earthquake struck Japan, triggering a devastating tsunami and subsequent radiation crisis, International Medical Corps is expanding its network of local partners to deliver critical health, mental health and livelihoods services to affected communities.