Product Donations Worldwide
Bristol-Myers Squibb has a long history of partnering with non-profit organizations, donating medical products to support long term health care programs in developing countries as well as addressing immediate needs to provide emergency disaster relief.
During the past five years, Bristol-Myers Squibb has donated $243 million of medical products, valued at wholesale, to support programs throughout the world.
Our donations have reached more than 100 countries. Our efforts usually are undertaken in collaboration with national ministries of health and local non-profit community organizations. Among other important objectives, the program supports community-based outreach programs aimed at enhancing health care access and prevention. Most important, health care product donations address needs at the community level in resource-limited communities, where populations who themselves have limited access to comprehensive health care.
Bristol-Myers Squibb's product donations' program also helps to transport medicine to remote locations and to administer medicines appropriately.
There are three main areas where the company's donations of products are used:
- Medical Mission Boxes: An innovative Medical Mission Box program, in partnership with Direct Relief International, supplies health care products in parcels that can be carried by individual physicians to remote locations to treat indigent local populations.
- Health Care Infrastructure Support: In partnership with nine major international non-profit organizations, this program supports a wide range of community-based health care infrastructure initiatives in regions around the world.
- Disaster Relief: Our third effort is focused solely on supplying needed medicines following major disasters, either natural or man-made.