Amity emphasizes medical training for ethnic minorities and grassroots personnel, and promotes primary health care. In remote poverty stricken areas inhabited by national minorities, resources are often scarce and of poor quality. Amity conducts half-year courses for obstetricians, gynecologists and surgeons and one-year training courses for village health workers. Amity has trained medical workers from the countryside who have a deep love for their villages. They work directly for grassroots people in the northwest and southwest. With a long term commitment to their work in poor agricultural areas, these medical workers provide a foundation for competent medical care in China’s remote areas.

Example Projects

Micro-credit project for people living with HIV / AIDS

In China, most HIV infected people are those who are already struggling against poverty: farmers, migrant workers and the unemployed. Anyone who gets infected with HIV can easily end up plunging their whole family into poverty.

Mobile clinic in China

AIDS prevention and awareness education in Henan and Yunnan provinces

Drug trafficking makes Yunnan China’s hotbed of AIDS. In Henan, countless farmers have been found to be infected with HIV through selling their blood in an attempt to reduce their poverty.

Village clinics building project in western China

Because very few farmers can pay for the medical services they receive, it takes too long a time for a village doctor to make enough money to build an actual clinic. Poor transportation also makes the price of construction materials several times higher than normal once the cost of actually getting them to a remote village has been factored in.

Rural orphans foster project in China

In rural areas of China, diseases, natural disasters, accidents and pesticide toxicosis cause a lot of accidental deaths, resulting in a lot of children finding themselves suddenly orphaned.