MAP International Annual Report 2008

In fiscal year 2008 (FY08), MAP International worked in 117 impoverished countries to provide essential medicines, promote community health and prevent and mitigate disease. Through the commitment of our generous donors, both in monetary and product donations we were able to reach over 33 million people who otherwise may have perished or suffered needlessly. Our Annual Report for 2008 reflects the accomplishments MAP International made to bring Health and Hope to those who so desperately needed it.

Download the MAP International 2008 Annual Report

• Full 2008 Annual Report (PDF, 800 KB)
• Financial Statements (PDF, 86 KB)

Selected Highlights of MAP International's work in 2008

Provide Essential Medicines

• Treated more than 100,000 children in Cote D’Ivoire for digestive parasites in conjunction with the National Nutrition Week. MAP also provided medicine to help treat an additional 200,000 school students as part of the government’s Deworming Campaign.


• Provided more than $1.5 million in essential medicines and medical supplies to people in Sudan, where millions are struggling to survive the harsh conditions of displacement camps.


• Provided more than $2.3 million in medicines and supplies including insecticide-treated mosquito nets for Uganda, where a decades-old civil war continues.



Promote Community Health Development

• Provided educational programs for more than 2,000 people about the prevention of child sexual abuse and the importance of advocacy programs in Bolivia.


• Provided therapy, health care and legal services for 105 children who were subjected to sexual abuse in Bolivia.


• Provided total health services designed to reduce child mortality and strengthen community organization for 200 impoverished, rural communities in Bolivia through volunteer health promoters trained by MAP.



Prevent and Mitigate Disease, Disaster and Other Health Threats

• Treated more than 7,800 patients through MAP’s Primary Health Care Clinic and Community Program in Chilimarca, Bolivia and supported training for volunteer community health promoters.


• Monitored 165 water pump management committees in 151 villages and drilled two new wells in Cote d’Ivoire’s Bouna City and Bouko villages, reducing prevalence of water borne diseases.


• Established 6 clinics to treat tens of thousands of people affected by violence in Kenya.