Press Releases

Project HOPE, a global health education and humanitarian assistance organization, reported its programs in China to prevent and manage diabetes through health provider training and patient education are working.

Project HOPE and UnitedHealthcare today showcased a new high-tech mobile unit and educational campaign that is bringing much-needed health care services and resources to underserved communities in New Mexico’s southern border and frontier areas.

Project HOPE has launched an ambitious campaign to raise $94 million to expand its fight against disease and disaster and to bring treatment within reach of some of the world’s most vulnerable people.

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.