Other NGO’s Focus on High Profile Conditions
The World Health Organization, foreign nations, and large NGO’s like Doctors Without Boarders address long-term, high-level pervasive health concerns like HIV/AIDS and Malaria. All are noble causes worthy of attention and demanding enormous budgets and resources to effect even modest results.
ASAP Cures the Basics for Maximum Impact
We take the more basic, less glamorous approach. We do not impose our health care priorities on the community. We design the health care agenda with the community. As a result, we tackle the less glamorous health care needs of our communities. We identify and treat the everyday health issues that devastate people, destroy families, and strain village resources. Hernias, cataracts, and prolapsed uterus cases are the common, curable conditions our team addresses.
Our Results Matter
Through our surgical care program, men from agrarian villages return to farming and feeding families, women rejoin the community of women and teach, provide child-care, and manage village life. While communities experience the social and economic benefits this work enables.
Once visited and qualified, ASAP and participating hospitals establish the patient referral process by which screened and referred patients are directed to hospitals for treatment. ASAP supplements or in many cases pays for surgical care costs. At present, we fund cataract surgeries at a cost of $50 per eye, complete hernia repairs for $200, and we treat prolapsed uterus cases based when possible based on time and severity.