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We believe that everyone – no matter who, or where they are – should be able to access the medicines and healthcare they need. Good health is fundamental. It underpins a child’s ability to attend school and an adult’s ability to work. Health underpins people’s abilities to shape their own futures.

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Categories

  • Disaster Relief Disaster Relief
  • Health/Wellbeing Health/​Wellbeing
  • Poverty Alleviation/Relief Poverty Alleviation/​Relief
  • Beneficiaries

    • Children (3-18) Children (3-18)
    • Older People Older People
    • General Public/Humankind General Public/​Humankind

    Situation

    The deaths and suffering caused by the Covid-19 crisis are not all directly caused by the virus itself. For example maternal mortality is already unacceptably high in low-income countries, with women 300 times more likely to die in childbirth than women in higher-income countries. Covid-19 is only set to perpetuate crises like this with health service budgets being squeezed globally and more individuals being plunged into poverty, unable to afford the essential medicines they need.

    Solution

    IHP will help strengthen health services by providing access to high quality, long dated donated essential medicines and health supplies. This saving on medicine costs, which accounts for a substantial portion of health spending in lower income countries, will cost effectively free up more funding for broader health programming including hand-washing campaigns, adapting existing health services to make them safer to access and purchasing vital medical equipment.

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    Categories

  • Disaster Relief Disaster Relief
  • Health/Wellbeing Health/​Wellbeing
  • Poverty Alleviation/Relief Poverty Alleviation/​Relief
  • Beneficiaries

    • Children (3-18) Children (3-18)
    • Older People Older People
    • General Public/Humankind General Public/​Humankind