Updates
Updates on our work to establish “one standard” in the treatment of epilepsy and associated psychiatric disorders around the world.
August 23, 2018
The ROW Foundation has surpassed the $2 million mark in medication grants to alleviate the suffering caused by epilepsy. Thousands of people in places like Sierra Leone, Haiti, Armenia, Bolivia, and Venezuela have new hope for a brighter future. And we’re just getting started!
July 18, 2018
We are halfway into 2018 and very excited about the work we are privileged to do. So far, we have sent medication grants to Sierra Leone, Haiti, Armenia, and Kenya. New grants are in development with groups in Ethiopia, Democratic Republic of Congo, and Paraguay.
June 27, 2018
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.
May 31, 2018
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.
April 28, 2018
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.
March 28, 2018
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...
February 27, 2018
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.
February 8, 2018
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.
August 23, 2017
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...