Press Releases

Stamford, Conn. –Sept. 23, 2020 – Americares, with support from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), is expanding COVID-19 screening, public health education and telehealth services in El Salvador.

Stamford, Conn. – Sept. 17, 2020 – Americares has committed $2.5 million in aid for the wildfires raging throughout the western United States. Americares support will include critically needed medicine and relief supplies valued at $2 million plus at least $500,000 in financial support for families and health care centers in affected areas. The record blazes have scorched millions of acres of land, blanketed the region with hazardous smoke, displaced tens of thousands of people and led to more than 30 deaths.

Stamford, Conn. –Sept. 8, 2020 – Americares has welcomed M. Rashad Massoud, MD, MPH, FACP, as its new senior vice president and chief program officer.

Stamford, Conn. –Sept. 2, 2020 – Americares is providing surge medical support in Peruvian health facilities overwhelmed by the COVID-19 pandemic. The health-focused relief and development organization is dispatching medical personnel, all of which are locally based and have experience working within the health system, to health centers in Lambayeque, Lima and Piura to meet the increase in demand for care and provide the struggling health system with some relief as the coronavirus pushes health center capacity to the brink.

Americares is preparing to respond to back-to-back storms along the Gulf Coast of the United States.

Stamford, Conn. – Aug. 11, 2020 – Americares is sending nearly 60 tons of medicine and supplies to hospitals and medical facilities in Lebanon where an explosion in Beirut’s port last week left 150 people dead and injured at least 5,000 others.

Stamford, Conn. – Aug. 6, 2020 –Americares is sending more than four tons of medicine and relief…

A vendor recently notified Americares of a data security incident involving donor information from Americares…

Stamford, Conn. –July 16, 2020 – Americares is pleased to announce the promotion of Megin Wolfman to senior vice president of strategy. In this elevated role, Wolfman is responsible for setting the strategy of the health-focused relief and development organization as well as

Stamford, Conn. – July 6, 2020 – Americares, the health-focused relief and development organization, is pleased to announce…

Stamford, Conn. – July 6, 2020 – Americares is pleased to announce the election of Darien native Tim…

Stamford, Conn. – July 6, 2020 – Americares, the health-focused relief and development organization, is pleased to announce…

With the support of the Astellas Global Health Foundation (AGHF), Americares is working to eliminate the barriers that often keep many families in rural El Salvador from accessing the health care they desperately need. AGHF recently awarded Americares $600,000 to support its health and resiliency programming in El Salvador, helping to ensure the health-focused relief and development organization can continue providing quality health services for vulnerable families like Susy’s.

Stamford, Conn. – June 23, 2020 – Americares has delivered 20 tons of personal protective equipment, infection-control supplies and hygiene products for Native American communities devastated by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Stamford, Conn. – May 21, 2020 – Procter & Gamble, the world’s biggest consumer goods company, has generously donated more than $2.5 million in cash and protective gear to support Americares response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Stamford, Conn. – April 28, 2020 – Nine-time Grammy-nominated and multi-platinum selling artist Sia is set to perform during the Americares COVID IS NO JOKE virtual comedy fest this Friday, May 1, to help health workers on the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic. Sia will close the program with an intimate performance that has never been seen before.

Stamford, Conn. – April 23, 2020 – The biggest names in comedy are coming together to help health workers on the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic with a special virtual comedy fest on Friday, May 1.

Stamford, Conn. – April 17, 2020 – Americares is delivering more than 1.4 million protective
masks for health workers on the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. The masks will help to alleviate shortages at hospitals and primary care facilities in 11 states and Puerto Rico.

Stamford, Conn. – April 14, 2020 – Figure skating legend Dorothy Hamill and two-time Olympic medalist Michelle…

Millwood, Va./Stamford, Conn. – April 8, 2020 – Project HOPE and Americares, two U.S.-based relief and development organizations responding globally to the COVID-19 pandemic, have joined forces to deliver more than 3 tons of lifesaving personal protective equipment to the city of Chicago.