AmeriCares Welcomes Assistance from GlaxoSmithKline for Project in PhilippinesAmeriCares Foundation AmeriCares, the international disaster relief and humanitarian aid organization, announced today that GlaxoSmithKline has donated nearly 70 cases of medicine to aid AmeriCares ongoing relief efforts in the Philippines. AmeriCares has been providing assistance to the Philippine Association of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta (PSMOM) since 1985 to support rural and urban hospitals, primary health clinics, specialty clinics and grass roots educational and social programs. These programs, which depend on AmeriCares product donations to operate, benefit nearly 1.5 million patients in forty provinces each year living below the poverty line.  The donation will help continue the initiatives that AmeriCares and PSMOM have sponsored, including tuberculosis treatment, insulin assistance and ophthalmic programs, and the development of an integrated approach to patients with Hansen's disease (leprosy). "The real progress that AmeriCares is making, with regards to the Philippines, would not be possible without the goodwill of companies like GlaxoSmithKline," stated Robert C. Macauley, Founder and Chairman of AmeriCares. GlaxoSmithKline – one of the world's leading research-based pharmaceutical and healthcare companies – is committed to improving the quality of human life by enabling people to do more, feel better and live longer.
For more information, or to contact AmeriCares Foundation, see their website at: www.americares.org |
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