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Medical supplies surplus

"In the United States...hospitals discard more than 2,000 tons of usable medical surplus supplies every year, allowing perfectly good medical materials to enter the waste stream."

Medicine need

“One third of the world's population lacks access to essential medicines; in the poorest parts of Africa and Asia this figure rises to one-half.”

Excess medical product

"Large quantities of medical equipment — such as superseded anaesthetic equipment, ECG machines and glucometers — lie in storage and are desperately needed in developing countries."

Access to HIV prevention information and services

"Only about one in five people at risk for HIV have access to prevention information and services".

Discarded medical supplies

"Researchers calculate that American hospitals throw away 2000 tons (or $200mn worth), of unused surgical supplies every year. At the same time, people around the world are literally dying for lack of these same materials."

Excess and need of spectacles

There are 200 million people in the world who only need a pair of spectacles to live an ordinary life. Over one million old unused pairs of spectacles are lying about in homes in the UK and the US.

Discarded medical supplies

" Every year, the U.S. health care system discards more than $6 billion worth of medical supplies and equipment."

Excess medical product

"Each year, operating rooms in the United States throw out over $250 million worth of unused medical equipment. At the same time, in much of the world, people wash by hand and reuse such common medical items as surgical gloves."