Through our longstanding partnership with the Honduran Order of Malta, we deliver medicines and medical supplies to more than 80 health and social service institutions throughout the country. To serve the growing number of diabetes patients, we have provided ongoing support for diabetes treatment.

Snapshot of Honduras:

With 59% of the Honduran people living in poverty, roughly 80% of the Honduran people do not have access to quality health care. Most families are forced to pay for treatment or go without care altogether. Critical health issues:

• a high incidence of common infectious diseases, such as diarrheal disease, malaria, dengue fever and typhoid
• a significant increase in diabetes, hypertension as well as a rise in cancer – all related to the lack of access to care for chronic diseases.

AmeriCares has been working in Honduras since 1986 and has delivered more than $417 million worth of emergency and ongoing medical aid through the Asociación Hondureña de Caballeros de la Orden de Malta (Honduran Order of Malta) to hospitals, clinics, AIDS hospices, nursing homes, nutritional centers, domestic abuse help centers, alcohol and drug rehabilitation centers, and children's homes.

Among the many hospitals receiving our support are two of our largest and longest-standing beneficiaries - Hospital Torax and Hospital San Felipe. AmeriCares donations of medicines and supplies help these facilities to extend diagnosis, treatment and disease management to poor patients.

In 2011, major flooding affected thousands of people limiting access to basic healthcare. AmeriCares responded with emergency shipments and followed up with deliveries of medical and humanitarian aid.

In 2008, when heavy rains displaced tens of thousands of people, we sent an emergency airlift containing important medicines and medical supplies

In 2007 Hurricane Felix made landfall as a Category 5 storm, blowing 160 mph winds. AmeriCares airlifted 4,784 pounds of essential medicines, including antibiotics, to help survivors.

AmeriCares also responded to ongoing health needs in the aftermath of Hurricane Stan in 2005 and Hurricane Mitch in 1998.

Chronic Disease:

In 2008, AmeriCares and Bristol Myers Squibb (BMS) supported the Diabetes Center at the Hospital San Felipe in Honduras with a grant to support the hospital’s diabetes patient education efforts. Read More »

AmeriCares donates medical products to qualified U.S. health care professionals who are traveling to Honduras to provide charitable medical care. Through this program, donated medicines and medical supplies reach impoverished and isolated communities where even basic medical care is inaccessible to the poor or often non-existent. AmeriCares donations cure infections, relieve pain, help patients manage chronic diseases and make life-changing surgeries possible.

Find out more about our Medical Outreach program