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Encompassing a vast geographic region, Asia is comprised of a culturally and economically diverse population across many countries.
AmeriCares has been bringing essential medicines and relief supplies to the region since the early 1980s.
AmeriCares disaster relief and emergency efforts in the region include responses include the China earthquake in 2008, Cyclone Nargis is Myanmar in 2008, and a string of disasters in 2010, including three devastating typhoons in Hong Kong, the Philippines and Vietnam, as well as two back-to-back earthquakes in Indonesia.
AmeriCares long-term humanitarian assistance to Asian countries includes Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Mongolia, North Korea/DPRK, Pakistan, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, Uzbekistan and Vietnam.
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