Global Medical Assistance
With the support of corporate and financial donors, AmeriCares largest program, Global Medical Assistance, provides medicines, medical supplies and other relief on an ongoing basis to hospitals, clinics and community health programs in over 90 countries, including the United States. The program fulfills critical resource gaps by supplying essential products that are otherwise unavailable or financially inaccessible.
AmeriCares helps support America’s uninsured and underinsured through a network of health care providers that offer primary care at no cost. In 2009, AmeriCares delivered over $190 million in aid – including $20 million in medicines and $170 million in free prescriptions – to 160 health care organizations serving poor and uninsured Americans.
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