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Nonprofit Overview
Causes: Education, Graduate & Professional Schools, International, International Development, International, Foreign Affairs & National Security, Scholarships, Scholarships & Student Financial Aid
Mission: MESAB,a partnership of Americans and South Africans, was founded in 1985 to address the gross discrepancy in health care available to whites and blacks in South Africa. There were then only 500 black doctors out of 25,000 and minuscule numbers of allied health professionals. MESAB supports training black health professionals to provide health care to poor black South Africans who still suffer unacceptable rates of infant and child mortality, infectious diseases including HIV/AIDS and TB, other physical impairments, and accidental death. To date MESAB has assisted almost 3,000 black students become well-trained doctors, nurses, pharmacists, and allied health professionals.
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