Medical Program

Pharmacies in Action for Post-Soviet Jewry's Adopt-a-Bubbe communities: APSJ stocks free pharmacies in many smaller cities for pensioners and others who need western medicines. A local physician oversees this program and conducts free clinics. In communities without medical sophistication, only over-the-counter medicines and vitamins are provided.

Medicine from Action for Post-Soviet Jewry is also distributed to a free clinicat a synagogue in Kharkov, Ukraine.

Medicine is distributed through physicians and coordinators to 20 cities and a number of small villages in Ukraine. Action for Post-Soviet Jewry distributes medicine to physicians in Jewish communities in Ukraine for distribution through our Adopt a Bubbe (or Zayde) program. Medicine is also distributed to the Jewish community of Minsk, Belarus, through our coordinators there.

Nizhny Novgorod Program - Action for Post-Soviet Jewry supplies medicine and medical supplies to a Jewish cardiologist who heads her department at Cardiology Hospital #1 in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia.

We depend upon donations of sample medicines from physicians, which are then re-packed and shipped to Ukraine. Medicine has also been donated by Americares, a non-profit organization which supplies medicine to countries in need. Generic medicines and vitamins are also purchased as funds allow.