Advocates for World Health

  • About Advocates for World Health
    Advocates for World Health (AWH) is a not-for-profit corporation that recovers surplus medical products and distributes them to relief agencies working in developing nations.

    Our mission is to provide medical products to clinics and hospitals overseas.

    AWH achieves this by reallocating medical product to organizations that provide health care services to underserved populations in the developing world. By redirecting usable medical supplies to foreign health care providers and preventing viable equipment from entering the waste stream, AWH lowers the overhead costs of hospitals and relief agencies, strengthens the health care delivery system, and promotes eco-friendly practices.

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Carolina Advocates for World Health

 Advocates for World Health is a nonprofit organization that is committed to improving the health care delivery system in the developing world and promoting environmental stewardship. AWH achieves this through brokering medical product to organizations that provide health care services to underserved populations in the developing world through our student-led initiative. By redirecting usable medical supplies and equipment from the waste stream to foreign health care providers, AWH is lowering overhead cost, improving access to health care, strengthening the health care delivery system, and engaging in ecofriendly practices. Nations that have received medical donations from AWH include Guatemala, Haiti, and the Dominican Republic. AWH is a student-led initiative where college students actively participate in collecting medical product and volunteer on health brigades. We believe that through active participation and fundraising our students will become advocates for change because they will experience firsthand the growing need to improve the health care infrastructure in the developing world.

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Florida State University

 The Florida State University (FSU) chapter works with Advocates for World Health (AWH) to improve the health care delivery system in the developing world and promote environmental stewardship by brokering medical product to organizations that provide health care services to underserved populations in the developing world. By redirecting usable medical supplies and equipment from the waste stream to foreign health care providers, AWH-FSU is lowering overhead cost, improving access to health care, strengthening the health care delivery system, and engaging in eco-friendly practices.

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