Uzbekistan

AmeriCares has worked with Soglom Avlod Uchun ("For the Healthy Generation") Foundation since 1997 to provide medical aid to Uzbekistan.  Soglom Avlod Uchun is a nongovernmental organization that focuses on improving maternal and child health in Uzbekistan.  Soglom provides primary health care to the population through a clinic and fourteen ambulatory units, and offers other social services such as programs to encourage physical activity for children, support to orphanages, and health education campaigns.  AmeriCares provides Soglom with nutritional supplies, medicines, medical supplies, hygiene products, clothing, and other humanitarian aid, which are used by Soglom's health care programs and are also distributed to other health care institutions throughout the country. 

Through the Central Asia Hypertension Drug Donation Program, AmeriCares aims to improve the treatment of high blood pressure in Uzbekistan by working with Soglom Avlod Uchun to distribute anti-hypertensive drugs to hospitals and clinics.  In its first two years, this program has been very successful in enabling physicians to more effectively treat high blood pressure, and has increased the access that Uzbek people have to these potentially life-saving drugs.  Hypertension and heart disease are major health issues in Uzbekistan, and patients are often unable to access effective medicines due to the high cost of these drugs.