Niger

AmeriCares has been working with the International Trachoma Initiative since 2004 to provide antibiotics that treat and prevent trachoma, an infectious disease of the eye that is the world's leading cause of preventable blindness. In Niger, AmeriCares also provides ITI with supplies such as gauze bandages, surgical basins, syringes, iodine solution, injectable anesthetics, and antibiotic ointment to support the surgical operations that correct advanced stages of the disease. In addition, AmeriCares provides trichiasis kits of surgical equipment to the International Trachoma Initiative for its programs in Niger and Ethiopia, which are vital to the surgeons who perform the sight-saving surgeries.

Responding to the emergency food crisis in 2005, AmeriCares deployed a dedicated airlift.  AmeriCares partnered with Islamic Relief Worldwide and delivered an airlift of essential medicines and oral rehydration solutions which were distributed to clinics across the region and other organizations providing health care to those affected by the scarcity of food. A portion of the medicines was also donated to Helen Keller International for its child survival project in Diffa, one of the most remote and vulnerable regions in the country.