Overview
Advocates for World Health (AWH) is a nonprofit organization that recovers surplus medical products in the United States and redistributes those medical products to under-served healthcare providers overseas.
Advocates for World Health, headquartered in Tampa, Florida, recovers medical supplies from Florida healthcare providers and redistributes them overseas through our Florida warehouse facilities in Brooksville, the Port of Tampa Bay, and the Port of Miami.
Vision
Advocates’ vision is to achieve health care transformations through the support of affordable, quality health care service. We support epicenter institutions in the poorest regions of the world to alleviate health concerns and economic woes, and balance the intra-country disparity in social class, economic status, and global health metrics. Through this vision, we reach people that have never visited a hospital or a clinic.
Why improve health care access?
Global disparities in health care access have far reaching consequences. Populations that do not have adequate access are predisposed to living in poverty and having poor health. Millions of people each year die in the developing world due to preventable diseases. Likewise, according to WHO nearly 80% of the burden from noncommunicable diseases like diabetes, cancer, and cardiovascular disease, occur in low and middle income countries. These conditions which perpetuate poverty are correctable.
By reducing this disparity, what are the effects?
By giving an individual their health, they are enabled to partake in the seemingly simple things in life. From emphasizing love in one’s family, to sustaining one’s environment, to contributing to a community’s infrastructure. By improving health on the individual level, changes in the aggregate can be realized. A community can experience increases in labor productivity, higher educational attainment, and robust economic growth. Good health is necessary for the functioning wheel of society.
Volunteer
AWH, led as a youth movement, focuses on the utilization of our volunteers and staff in the United States, introducing them to an increasingly unified world, and educating them on the importance of improving health care access. Advocates are proponents of change. They support efforts in communities in the developing world, they raise awareness on the need to improve global health, and they provide medical aid to the under-served. Become an advocate today. Contact Ryan.
Progress
-Recovered over 15,000 pounds of surplus medical supplies from becoming medical waste buried in landfills or incinerated
-Redistributed over $600,000 worth of surplus medical supplies to Guatemala and Haiti
-Coordinated 6 humanitarian aid trips to distribute medical supplies in Guatemala