We are continuing to add new patients and clients to our health care programs every day, but we need your support to do it. Your donations are currently helping perform surgeries for HIV-infected women, provide job training skills, and help us ship donated medicines abroad.
Mental health initiative in The Gambia
Help us expand our community-based mental health project with the
Campama Mental Hospital in the Gambia. The program focuses on providing
clinical funding, medication, sensitizing
the public, and ultimately
establishing regular, village-based mental health services.
Consistent
with our mission to assist marginalized populations gain access
to healthcare, HEP launches initiative to purchase medicines and
necessary healthcare services to LGBT and sexual minority communities
in West Africa. Read
more about the program here.
HEP
sends condoms to Uganda & South Africa
In
response to Uganda's condom shortage, HEP has committed to securing and
shipping 10,000 condoms and lubricant packages for marginalized groups,
with committments to send more if needed. HEP is also assisting SWEAT,
a South African NGO that assists prostitutes, with condoms and other
HIV prevention materials.
BBC
interviews HEP director
The
BBC World Service interviewed Travis Sherer about the sexual minority
program's services in Ghana. Listen
to the interview .
Help
us continue our work with marginalized populations
around the world access healthcare. We provide medicines,
supplies, and a helping hand to those who are turned away
elsewhere.
As an all-volunteer organization we have
no staff salaries or high overhead to pay for. So your donations
go directly to helping others in the most need.
We also need volunteers, unused medicines to send abroad, and
a variety of other assistance. More on how
you can help...
Uganda's
condom crisis
Health
Equity Project (HEP) issues
statement on the condom shortage in Uganda.
Free
trade agreements are hurting access to medicines
Health Equity Project (HEP) issues
statement on how free trade agreements are affecting access
to medicines in developing countries.
Global health news
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Consistent
with our mission to assist marginalized populations gain access
to healthcare, HEP launches initiative to purchase medicines and
necessary healthcare services to LGBT and sexual minority communities
in West Africa. 
The
BBC World Service interviewed Travis Sherer about the sexual minority
program's services in Ghana. 
Health
Equity Project (HEP)