Press Releases

Project HOPE is highlighting the first free, comprehensive rehab (and prosthetic) facility in post-earthquake Haiti as a symbol of solidarity and life-changing hope for the people of Haiti, marking the second anniversary of the deadly quake.

Global NGO Project HOPE says health education has been the driving force in rebuilding healthy and stable lives for women and children in post-tsunami Indonesia, and in helping to reconstruct a shattered health care system, as the country remembers the disaster that washed over the region seven years ago on December 26.

Global NGO Project HOPE announced a new initiative on World AIDS Day to support AIDS orphans and vulnerable children in Mozambique and to help families and communities caring for thousands of children made vulnerable by HIV and AIDS.

To mark World Diabetes Day, global NGO Project HOPE is calling for a new emphasis on health education to combat the staggering toll inflicted by the disease across the developing world, where millions have diabetes and millions more are not properly diagnosed storing up a silent future medical crisis.

Project HOPE is making sure the fight against pneumonia reaches even the most remote areas of Nicaragua and Honduras where health workers deliver vaccines against pneumococcal disease, a major cause of pneumonia.

Project HOPE delivered medicines and medical supplies valued at more than $35 million to Tajikistan, the second humanitarian airlift in collaboration with the U.S. Department of State this year to the former Soviet Republic.

Project HOPE is welcoming Richard T. Clark, Chairman of Merck & Co. Inc., as its new Chairman, deploying his decades of corporate leadership expertise as HOPE expands its global battle against disease and poor health.

Global NGOs Project HOPE and AmeriCares are delivering lifesaving vaccines to the Dominican Republic to benefit children and adults, especially those living along the country’s border with Haiti, in support of the National Program of Immunization established by the Ministry of Health.

Project HOPE is kicking off New Mexico’s first-ever State and Tribal Preventive Health Week with consultations in a state-of-the-art mobile health screening unit dubbed the HOPEmobile.

Child Health Day is observed nationally in United States on the first Monday of October to highlight the importance of protecting children’s health and to encourage parents to include proper nutrition and regular exercise into their children’s lives to minimize health problems including diabetes, heart disease, obesity and asthma.

Tens of thousands of people in the Kyrgyz Republic will receive much-needed free medicines to treat cardiovascular disease, eye infections and to provide vaccinations to thousands of children in underprivileged communities.

Dr. Michael D. Maves, the former Executive Vice President and Chief Executive Officer of the American Medical Association, joins Project HOPE as its Executive Vice President.