Our Mission

Promitheas’ mission is to ensure that every citizen has uninterrupted and equal access to quality healthcare services, timely diagnosis, appropriate medical care, and full respect for their fundamental rights.

Our Principles

Promitheas works systematically to ensure that all people, especially the most vulnerable, have access to prevention, early diagnosis, and appropriate healthcare.

Our goal is to make sure every citizen’s voice is heard and that health services are accessible to all, regardless of their socioeconomic status.

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Accountability

Our approach is rooted in scientific evidence. Guided by research and scientific knowledge, we work with academics and experts to design and implement our programs.

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Empathy

We delve deeply into the needs of our beneficiaries and work alongside their peers to understand their challenges and deeper needs. This approach ensures our programs are as effective as possible and have greater impact, as it increases participation and commitment.

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Integrity

The data, expertise, and knowledge we acquire are made available to the state and other organizations so that, together, we can strengthen their work. We foster collaborations and the exchange of best practices between organizations and partners.

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Collaboration

Promitheas works with all parts of society and acts as an essential link between decision-making centers and the community. As an organization, we are characterized by flexibility and adaptability in highly diverse circumstances, ensuring that the voices of patients are heard and considered in health policy decisions.

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Inclusion

We respect diversity and fight stigma, marginalization, and exclusion. We ensure that vulnerable people are heard, so that no one is left behind. We work with all people without discrimination based on gender, religion, or race.

Our Achievements

Access and Prevention

With the support of the country’s largest philanthropic foundations, we have managed to offer free liver elastography screenings to over 20,000 patients, reaching the lives of vulnerable groups such as the elderly, people who use drugs, and inmates in correctional facilities.

Prometheus’ programs in correctional facilities have been internationally recognized and are cited in the WHO’s best practice manual for viral hepatitis. This recognition highlights our commitment to improving the lives of people living under difficult conditions. Within two years, we screened 75% of the total prison population in Greece — approximately 7,500 inmates — significantly strengthening prevention efforts.

Advocacy

Through evidence-based advocacy, Promitheas has achieved significant changes and continues to actively defend the rights of people with liver diseases.

In 2023, we secured a legislative change granting inmates access to healthcare services, ensuring that even prisoners without a social security number (AMKA) have access to medical care.

In 2021, after years of institutional pressure, we achieved a change in the legal framework making Naloxone — a substance that plays a critical role in reducing deaths from opioid overdose — available to the entire population.

In 2019, we received the gold award from the Prix Galien Institute for our contribution to negotiations that secured access to innovative hepatitis C treatments. Restrictions had excluded 3 out of 4 patients, but after persistent advocacy, in 2017 the new drugs became accessible to all.

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