ROW Foundation works to improve the quality of training for healthcare providers, and the diagnosis and treatment options available to people with epilepsy and associated psychiatric disorders in under-resourced areas of the world. We partner with in-country organizations to maximize impact. We envision a future when the best treatments will be available to all people, at all times, in all the world.
At least sixty-five million people live with epilepsy worldwide. Eighty-percent of these live in low- and middle-income countries where 75%--about 39 million people-- live with untreated seizures. In sub-Saharan Africa, treatment gaps can exceed 90%. Lack of specialists for diagnosis, poor availability of diagnostic equipment and low access to anti-seizure medications are barriers to successful treatment of the disorder. Individuals, families, and communities are affected by severe social stigma, loss of education, employment discrimination, loss of income, and sometimes violence and death. Yet this condition can be successfully treated with medication about 70% of the time. Additionally, epilepsy is often comorbid with psychiatric conditions such as depression and anxiety.
We address untreated epilepsy by funding training for healthcare providers (physicians, nurses, neurodiagnostic technicians, and community health workers), providing diagnostic (EEG) equipment, and making grants of psychiatric and anti-seizure medications for clinical settings and research. We're also interested in innovative ways to solve problems through community health worker models, telemedicine and research.
We're happy to begin a conversation with organizations and individuals who share our mission to reduce treatment gaps for epilepsy and psychiatric disorders in under-resourced areas of the world. While we're a funder of epilepsy programs, we also seek the support of larger funders for new programs to accelerate our ability to meet the diagnosis and treatment needs of the millions of people with untreated epilepsy in under-resourced areas.
Since 2015, ROW Foundation has facilitated grants of EEG equipment to hospitals in Armenia, Bolivia, Ecuador, Ghana, India, Kenya, Republic of Georgia, Sierra Leone, Sudan and Uganda for the diagnosis of epilepsy and we've supported training programs for healthcare providers globally. We grant ongoing supplies of Roweepra® (levetiracetam) and Subvenite® (lamotrigine) to partners in 25 countries, as well as emergency humanitarian medication aid to Ukraine and Venezuela.
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- AIC Litein Hospital (Kenya)
- Americares
- Arabkir United Children's Charity Foundation (Armenia)
- Armenian League Against Epilepsy
- ASLEK Epilepsy Foundation (DR Congo)
- BAND Foundation (Rwanda)
- Bethesda Medical Center (Uganda)
- Boston Children's Hospital (Global Health Program - Zambia)
- Brother's Brother Foundation (Ukraine)
- Cameroon Baptist Convention Health Services
- Centre Psychiatrique SOSAME (DR Congo)
- Chikankata Epilepsy Project (Zambia)
- Chipata Central Hopsital (Zambia)
- Clinique d'Epilepsie de Port-au-Prince | CLIDEP (Haiti)
- Cuatro por Venezuela
- CURE International Children's Hospital Uganda
- Dalhousie University/Kakumbi Rural Health Centre (Zambia)
- Dr. Mamta Bhushan Singh (India)
- East African Neuroscience & Epilepsy Clinic (Kenya)
- Edward Francis Small Teaching Hospital (The Gambia)
- EFCA Reach Global (DR Congo)
- Epilepsy Association of Zambia
- Epilepsy Awareness Uganda
- Epilepsy Foundation of Guyana
- Epilepsy Medicare Foundation (Pakistan)
- Foundation for People with Epilepsy (Kenya)
- Fundacja Emergen (Poland: Ukraine support)
- Geno Epilepsy Centre (Kenya)
- Georgian League Against Epilepsy
- Global Health Mali
- Global Organization for Health Education
- Guiding Light Orphans (Uganda)
- Healey International Relief Foundation (Sierra Leone)
- Hôpital Provincial Général de Reférence de Bukavu (DR Congo)
- International League Against Epilepsy
- Kifafa Care & Support Child Project (Kenya)
- Kiserem Epilepsy Foundation (Kenya)
- Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (Ghana)
- La Maison Santé Globale (Haiti)
- Loma Linda University (Global Health Institute - Malawi)
- Massachusetts General Hospital (Global Neurology Research Group - Guinea)
- Medical Assistance Sierra Leone
- Mohlomi Neuropsychiatric Hospital (Lesotho)
- National Institute for Medical Research (Tanzania)
- Neri/i4life Clinic (Zambia)
- Pretola Global Health & Consulting
- Provision Charitable Foundation/Mahenge Epilepsy Clinic (Tanzania)
- Purple Bench Initiative Uganda
- Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital (Malawi)
- Rachael K Foundation (Kenya)
- Santokba Durlabhji Hospital (India)
- Save Haven Community Services /Center for Epilepsy and Neurological Disorders Liberia
- Soins de Santé Mentale (SOSAME) Psychiatric Center (DRCongo)
- Solidarity Bridge/Puente de Solidaridad (Bolivia, Paraguay)
- Syrian American Medical Association
- TeleEEG
- Ukrainian League Against Epilepsy
- University of Ghana Medical School
- University Teaching Hospital (Zambia)
- Venezuelan League Against Epilepsy
- West Atlantic Brain & Stroke Foundation/Regions Stroke & Neuroscience Hospital (Nigeria)
- Yale University (Global Mental Health Program - Nigeria)
