Press Releases

A pioneering children’s hospital in Shanghai will honor Project HOPE and the Hospira Foundation for their leading role in fighting children’s cancer, as it inaugurates a new state-of-the-art 142-bed oncology tower on June 1.

Departing from Honolulu and travelling aboard the USS Pearl Harbor, an amphibious dock landing ship, the HOPE volunteers will visit the island nations of Western Samoa, Tonga, Republic of the Marshall Islands, Kiribati and the Solomon Islands.

To combat the hypertension epidemic as well as other chronic health problems, Project HOPE opened the HOPE Centre clinic in 2012 in Zandspruit, South Africa, an extremely impoverished area near Johannesburg.

The six Project HOPE volunteers are taking part in New Horizons 2013, a joint humanitarian assistance mission and training exercise conducted by the 12th U.S. Air Force.

The volunteers will provide assistance to the staff at the HOPE Centre in a variety of capacities, all in an effort to improve the quality of care at the clinic.

Project HOPE, a global health education and humanitarian assistance organization today announced it has awarded 43 volunteers with the PRESIDENT’S VOLUNTEER SERVICE AWARD, a national honor offered in recognition of volunteer service.

The Virginia-based humanitarian organization and Merck have delivered the final shipment of 200,000 doses of the vaccine PNEUMOVAX® 23 (Pneumococcal Vaccine Polyvalent) to Nicaragua as part of a national campaign to vaccinate vulnerable individuals.

Project HOPE, a global health education and humanitarian assistance organization, in partnership with MSD, a leader in global health care (known as Merck in the United States and Canada), has delivered the final shipment of 200,000 doses of the vaccine PNEUMOVAX® 23 (Pneumococcal Vaccine Polyvalent) to Managua, Nicaragua as part of a national campaign to vaccinate vulnerable individuals against pneumococcal infections, a major cause of pneumonia.

Project HOPE and Virginia-based firm Guardit have come up with a pioneering device that could make dramatic strides in diagnosing a disease that claims more young victims than AIDS, Malaria and measles combined.

Health Affairs, the nation’s leading peer-reviewed journal of health policy thought and research, announced today that founding editor John Iglehart will return to lead the publication.

UCB and Project HOPE announced the inauguration of a program to improve medical care for children with epilepsy in China and to provide psychological support for their families.

Global NGO Project HOPE announced that tens of thousands of people in the Dominican Republic, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan will receive crucial vaccines donated by MassBiologics of the University of Massachusetts Medical School.