FP Report -- 1999 Post-Assembly Edition
Humanitarian Projects
Physicians With Heart takes medical supplies to Uzbekistan
The annual Physicians With Heart airlift headed for Uzbekistan this year.
The Sept. 25-Oct. 5 mission was scheduled to deliver medical supplies and health education materials donated by pharmaceutical and other health care companies. Funds from individual FPs provided products for hospitals and clinics and helped pay for food and clothing for Uzbek orphans.
The Academy, the AAFP Foundation and the humanitarian organization Heart to Heart International have delivered medical supplies to the former Soviet Union since 1993.
Within Uzbekistan, the airlift delegation planned to monitor the delivery of the products and confer with Uzbek health professionals about the materials and the specialty of family practice, a new concept to most Uzbek health professionals.
Corporate contributors
3M Health Care
Beiersdorf-Jobst Inc.
Bionix Engineered Medical Technologies
Bristol-Myers Squibb
Burrows
Carrington Laboratories
Chlorine Chemistry Council
Derma Sciences Inc.
Glaxo Wellcome Inc.
Hoechst Marion Roussel Inc.
Johnson & Johnson Companies
Lever Brothers
Eli Lilly and Company
Maxxim Medical
McNeil Consumer Healthcare
Mead Johnson Nutritionals
Mera, King and Company
Merck & Company
Owens & Minor
Parke-Davis
Pharmacia & Upjohn Inc.
The Purdue Frederick Co.
Schering Laboratories/Key Pharmaceuticals
Searle and Co.
Sunshine Productions
UCB Pharma
Welch Allyn
Welch Allyn Tycos
Wyeth-Ayerst Pharmaceuticals
FP Report is published by the AAFP News Department. Copyright © 1999 by American Academy of Family Physicians.
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