• AmeriCares Medical Outreach Program
• 88 Hamilton Avenue
• Stamford, CT 06902
• Phone: 800-486-4357
• Fax: 203-658-9604
• E-mail: info@americares.org
• Web: www.americares.org

AmeriCares has donated over six billion dollars worth of medical goods and other emergency relief items to 137 countries since 1982. Most of it goes out in large shipments to their own humanitarian aid programs and disaster relief efforts. Their Medical Outreach Program enables health care professionals with a current U.S. license to prescribe medicine to request pharmaceuticals (and non-licensed individuals to request non-prescription items) for overseas medical trips on which they personally will be going. Requests should be made three weeks in advance and are limited to one donation per trip and two per group or individual in the same year. AmeriCares asks for a suggested donation of $200 or more per trip to help offset some of the costs of providing this service.