Updates

ROW has made a $15,200 grant to Santokba Durlabhjii Memorial Hospital in Jaipur, India for an EEG unit for their pediatric intensive care unit. We are pleased to partner with a hospital whose compassion care means 10% of their beds are dedicated to treating the needy at no cost.

ROW attended the American Psychiatric Association’s annual meeting in New York, with over 16,000 attendees from around the globe. We shared our model and various epilepsy projects with psychiatrists, physicians, and students, almost half of whom were international members.

It is estimated there are about 12 million people with epilepsy in India, making up almost one-sixth of the global burden. The ROW Foundation is addressing this crisis by providing much-needed diagnostic equipment to multiple hospitals in northern India.

A young man living in the mountains of Haiti has suffered from seizures since he was ten years-old. People were afraid of him when he had seizures at school, so he had to drop out. He has lived with uncontrolled epilepsy for...

The ROW Foundation sent an initial supply of Roweepra to the CLIDEP Epilepsy Clinic in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. In Haiti, 1 in 10 children are afflicted with epileptic attacks. Only one or two neurologists are present in country for the entire population of 10 million people.

Our first grant of Roweepra is going to the Loreto Health Services Center in Makeni, Sierra Leone. Almost 95% of people with epilepsy in this West African country are NOT on medication. This medication grant is done in partnership with The Healey International Relief Foundation.

A recent article by the Center for Disease Control (CDC)* on the prevalence of epilepsy noted that in 2015 approximately 3 million U.S. adults and 470,000 children had active epilepsy. This 3.47 million represents 1.2% of the population and is...

At their May 2017 meeting the ROW Foundation Board of Directors voted unanimously to expand the foundation’s charitable purpose, allowing it to fund services for more people in more comprehensive ways, and to work cooperatively with...

Situations in which “the whole is greater than the sum of the parts” are always thrilling to see. Sometimes they reveal the power of “compassionate collaboration,” and the benefit provided to persons living with epilepsy in under-resourced areas can be powerful!