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AmeriCares is providing primary support for the 2015 National Survey of Free & Charitable Clinics– a key initiative to assess the impact of health reform on safety net clinics and identify new needs and resource gaps that have resulted from health reform.

AmeriCares rushed medical and humanitarian aid to local partners in Oklahoma, Texas and Illinois after days of tornadoes and record rainfall in the Plains and Midwest region caused major flooding in May and June.

For a woman in South Carolina, the Anderson Free Clinic, with support from AmeriCares, has become a lifeline as she struggles to manage serious health issues with limited resources.

As local and international efforts significantly slow the spread of Ebola in West Africa, AmeriCares continues to support treatment of Ebola patients and protect health workers, while beginning to rebuild and strengthen devastated health systems.

In Guatemala, a volunteer surgical team supported by AmeriCares Medical Outreach gives Felipe his sight back– one of 60 life-changing eye surgeries performed during their medical trip to provide critical health care to people in need.

A volunteer medical team on its regular visit to Bolivia performs a complex surgery for free, giving a young college student the ability to eat normally again and live a productive, healthy life.

Responding to Cyclone Pam, a category 5 storm that slammed the South Pacific islands of Vanuatu, an AmeriCares emergency team supported NYC Medics mobile medical teams in providing emergency medical care to some of the remote islands, while assessing longer term health needs.

A community leader mobilizes the people in his farming and fishing community in El Salvador to improve their health and overall quality of life through regular visits to the AmeriCares Family Clinic in Santiago de Maria.

Forty years ago Bob Macauley, a Connecticut businessman, chartered a plane and helped save the lives of orphan children who had survived a plane crash during the evacuation in the last days of the Vietnam war. i¢â‚¬Å“Operation Babylifti¢â‚¬Â gave rise to AmeriCares, a global organization dedicated to saving lives and restoring health.

Clean water saves lives. On World Water Day and every day, AmeriCares helps to provide safe water access, hygiene and sanitation for people at risk here at home and worldwide.

A rare condition and a rare surgery by a volunteer medical team supported with medicine and supplies from AmeriCares Medical Outreach gave a baby in Peru a real smile for the first time in her life.

A woman’s life is saved when a volunteer medical team on an annual visit to El Salvador performs emergency surgery using supplies and medicine donated by AmeriCares– one of over 1,200 medical teams supported through our Medical Outreach last year.

AmeriCares and long-term partner FUSAL conducted a grassroots education and prevention campaign in El Salvador that reached 25,000 inhabitants in coastal communities suffering from a high incidence of the mosquito-borne viruses of dengue and chikungunya.

This fate of a husband and wife in a Liberian village is the story of Ebola: the cruel reality and courageous survival that people in Liberia and the other countries of West Africa are facing every day in the many long months of the Ebola outbreak.

Two uninsured patients with cardiovascular disease find relief from serious health worries at safety net clinics providing free medicine, including medications donated by AmeriCares.

To save an 18-month-old Ebola patient, the medical team at the Ebola treatment unit in Sinje, Liberia turned to one thing that is usually avoided with this deadly disease: human contact. AmeriCares provides all medicine and supplies at the treatment unit, which is managed by the International Organization for Migration.

The Uganda Spine Surgery Mission, one of 1,200 volunteer medical teams supported by AmeriCares, performed life-changing surgery on a 13-year-old boy in Uganda. The team handles complex surgeries that would otherwise be unavailable, while providing training for local health care professionals.

One of the generators donated by the GE Foundation and installed by AmeriCares at health clinics affected by Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines meant that during the recent Typhoon Hagupit, 16 women could give birth safely at a clinic that lost power – demonstrating the critical impact of our disaster preparedness program.

A 37-year-old woman faces a life-threatening situation and finds a pathway to a new, healthy life with the help of the Greenville Free Medical Clinic and AmeriCares.

Joenne* was playing with her cousin and two older siblings on January 12, 2010, when…