AmeriCares Part of Emergency Airlift to UzbekistanAmeriCares Foundation AmeriCares is part of a five-agency airlift that leaves Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland today carrying medicine and supplies for Uzbekistan where health care has severely deteriorated since the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union. Essential antibiotics and cardiovascular medicines totaling $1.96 million in value make up the AmeriCares shipment aboard a C-17 transport dispatched under the U.S. State Department's "2002 Operation Provide Hope." Aimee Gilbert of Westport, CT, the AmeriCares director of humanitarian programs, and Randy Weiss of Norwalk, CT, account executive, accompanied the emergency relief.  It was the ninth AmeriCares airlift to Uzbekistan since 1997. The other participating organizations are Heart to Heart, Northwest Medical Teams, Counterpart International and Project Hope. Since it was established in 1982, AmeriCares has distributed more than $2.6 billion dollars in aid to 139 countries, the U.S. among them.
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