Press Releases

Project HOPE today announced a $1 million endowment from the North Carolina GlaxoSmithKline Foundation to establish the Dr. Charles A. Sanders/Project HOPE International Residency Scholarship Program to help North Carolina’s young physicians bring health education and improved care to needy communities worldwide.

Project HOPE medical volunteers are reporting that services in areas devastated by Japan’s earthquake and tsunami remain basic, with patients’ medical needs still a major concern, underlying the need for outside help until the local health systems can be reestablished.

Project HOPE is launching its first rehabilitation center in Haiti on Thursday to care for disabled patients of all ages with long-term needs.

Project HOPE medical volunteers have arrived in Cameroon to share their expertise with health care professionals.

Project HOPE has arrived in Peru to provide medical care and health education to underserved communities on a nine-country mission to Central and South America and the Caribbean.

Project HOPE medical volunteers have arrived in Vanuatu, the second stop on a three-month humanitarian mission with the U.S. Navy in the South Pacific, after caring for thousands of patients in Tonga.

Project HOPE, in partnership with Merck, is collaborating with the Honduran Ministry of Health to further advance efforts to vaccinate vulnerable populations against pneumococcal infections, a major cause of pneumonia.

HOPE medical volunteers on board the massive white hospital ship, the USNS Comfort, sailed to Jamaica, the first stop on the five-month mission, known as Continuing Promise 2011.

Medical volunteers from Project HOPE have embarked on a mission with the U.S. Navy to offer medical care and health education to underserved communities in the Oceania region.

Educating communities about tuberculosis detection in Malawi has yielded amazing results in preventing the spread of the disease, a major cause of death and sickness, especially for people with HIV/AIDS.

Project HOPE and Delta Health Alliance are collaborating to improve access to health education and care for residents of the Mississippi Delta region.

As Haitians went to the polls Sunday, March 20, to choose a new leader, Project HOPE is reaffirming its commitment to provide long-term care to thousands of Haitians rebuilding their lives after Haiti’s devastating earthquake.