Proceeds from the 2006 Ride for World Health benefit Partners in Health (PIH), a global non-profit organization that strives to be an antidote to despair by bringing the benefits of modern medical science to those in greatest need. PIH draws on the resources of the world’s elite medical and academic institutions and on the experience of the world’s poorest and sickest communities to combat such global health crises as HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis.
Partners in Health brings an innovative, community-based model developed in rural Haiti to poor communities around the world. Fostering long-term partnerships within these communities, PIH supports positive change through comprehensive programs that link external funding of medical care and supplies to training programs that empower communities to treat and prevent oppressive, epidemic disease.
Your donation can do much to assist Partners in Health’s efforts. Below is just the beginning of what your donation can do for those who are less fortunate:
- $50: Testing and treatment for seven tuberculosis patients
- $100: Voluntary HIV counseling and testing materials for fifty patients
- $350: One year of antiretroviral therapy for an HIV/AIDS patient
- $750: Yearly stipend for a community health worker
- $1,000: School fees, books, and uniforms for a family of three children
- $4,150: A concrete block house with a tin roof for a patient and his/her family in Haiti
- $5,000: Prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV by providing AZT treatment to fifteen pregnant women with advanced HIV/AIDS
- $10,000: Drilling a well or capping a spring, to provide clean water for a village in Haiti
- $16,100: Annual operating costs for an ambulance
- $40,000: Equipping a 20-bed clinic
