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Uganda: AmeriCares Medical Aid and Humanitarian Relief

Uganda is a nation of over 29 million people still struggling to recover from decades of violence and repression. Conflict has taken a toll on the country and health services remain limited. Complicating the situation are the over 400,000 men, women and children who remain in temporary shelters and refugee camps after prolonged civil conflict.

Uganda’s families living in rural areas and urban slums have minimal access to health care.  In some communities, there is only one doctor serving 50,000 people. While the health situation is improving since the reduction in rebel violence and spill over of conflict from Uganda’s borders with the southern Darfur region of Sudan and Democratic Republic of the Congo, healthy life expectancy is between 49 and 51 years old.

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Emergency Aid and Disaster Relief      

During the height of conflict in 2005, children were dying every day from malaria, diarrhea and other diseases that would have been easily treated by medicines found in any corner drug store in America. In response to the eruption of violence, AmeriCares delivered over $2.6 worth of medicines, medical supplies and other humanitarian aid to help families forced to flee from their homes. The medical relief helped provide primary health care services to over 275,000 people living in refugee camps. 

Medical and Humanitarian Aid                

Since 1988, AmeriCares has delivered over $9 million worth of medical aid and humanitarian relief to Uganda. From basic wound care supplies and bandages to lifesaving antibiotics, people in need were given free medical care with the help of AmeriCares donations.

Medical Outreach Program           

AmeriCares also donates medical products to qualified U.S. health care professionals who are traveling to Uganda to provide charitable medical care to some of the country’s most under-served people. 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.

Medical volunteers report back from an AmeriCares-supported mission in Uganda. Read more about their lifesaving work.

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AmeriCares is approved by the Internal Revenue Service as a 501 (C) (3) tax-exempt organization, and all donations are tax deductible to the extent provided by law. AmeriCares Federal Identification Number (EIN) is 061008595.