SHARED Launches the
"Building a Healthy Armenia" Program

SHARED announces the launch of a major fund raising campaign to support and participate in the "Building a Healthy Armenia" program. Unlike many countries struggling to improve their healthcare system, Armenia is blessed with an abundance of dedicated health care professionals .   These hard working doctors, nurses, and administrators are committed to providing the best health care possible under challenging economic conditions.   SHARED is working to find ways to help them care for more people.

Why does a doctor prescribe a $5.00 injection rather than a $1.00 course of medicines? Is it because patients prefer a jab instead of pills?   Are the medicines unavailable but the injections plentiful?   These are some of the questions that SHARED is asking in Armenia as part of a program currently being conducted to increase the availability of medicines.

Based on the information we discover, we can create a plan to help the hospital save substantial amounts of money – money that can be used to buy additional medicines with the same amount of money available.

In partnership with the Samariter Hospital in Gyumri, Armenia, SHARED is working with Armenian health care providers to find ways for doctors to prescribe the best medicines available to patients while saving money for the hospital. Once we have identified ways to accomplish these goals, we plan to introduce our recommendations to hospitals throughout Armenia.

By working with doctors and patients as well as sources of medicines, we will continue to explore ways to get more medicines to more people until we have succeeded in “Building a Healthy Armenia”.

Your generous support of our efforts is extremely important to the success of this project. The funds raised as part of the "Building a Healthy Armenia" program will be used exclusively for the work we do as part of this project.

We urge you NOW to make a tax-deductible contribution to help with our efforts. Please visit our Contribution page to print a coupon that can be mailed to us or to make a secure online donation.

The sooner you make your tax-deductible contribution the sooner a person in Armenia will receive urgently needed medicines!

A healthy Armenia is a strong Armenia. Together we can work towards "Building a Healthy Armenia".

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