Namibia

Regional Psychosocial Support Initiative

In Southern and East Africa, the Novartis Foundation aims to improve livelihoods and future prospects of children and adolescents affected by HIV/AIDS.

PMTCT: Abbott Rapid HIV Test Donation Program

Each year, approximately 800,000 babies around the world become infected with HIV during their mothers´ pregnancy, during birth or through breastfeeding.

Pfizer Global Health Fellows

The Pfizer Global Health Fellows program utilizes the professional expertise of Pfizer employees through specialized volunteer assignments with nonprofit organizations to improve health care services for underserved communities around the world. Since 2003, more than 230 employees with a range of technical skills have served in 39 nations for 3-6 month assignments investing nearly 200,000 hours of skills-based service to help increase the capacity of nonprofits organizations providing health care to the underserved (in the reporting period, 54 Global Health Fellows were deployed).

Pfizer Diflucan Partnership

Pfizer created the Diflucan Partnership in 2000 to provide treatment for two AIDS-related fungal infections in developing countries. Since the program's inception, Pfizer has over provided USD 1.1 billion of products and its program partners distribute millions of Diflucan (fluconazole) treatments free of charge to governments and NGOs in 63 developing countries in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean and Latin America. Pfizer has also provided training and education materials to 20,000 healthcare professionals.

Nawa Sport Program

The Nawa Sport Program is a collaboration between the Academy for Educational Development (AED) and Johnson & Johnson, in partnership with NawaLife Trust. The program uses the large-scale appeal of soccer to inspire young men ages 14 to 25 to get involved in a community activity, which could provide a way to teach them about HIV/AIDS prevention. But the program does more than just teach about HIV/AIDS prevention. It gives all involved a greater sense of accomplishment and involvement within the community.

Merck & Co., Inc. HIV/AIDS Programs - Africa

In 2009, with support from The Merck Company Foundation, the Earth Institute at Columbia University launched a community health worker training program to strengthen community health services for over 400,000 people in 10 African countries as part of the Millennium Villages project. The initiative aims to develop a professional cadre of 800 community health workers to fill a critical gap in primary healthcare provision for rural communities throughout Africa.

Humana: Total Control of the Epidemic

'Only people can liberate themselves from the AIDS epidemic'. These are the motivating words behind the Total Control of the Epidemic (TCE) program, which was created by the International Humana People to People Movement. Driven by a grassroots door-to-door approach, TCE has been completed in 24 areas with 2,340,000 inhabitants and at present is operating in 62 areas with 6,170,000 inhabitants in Africa, 2 areas with 200,000 inhabitants in India and 3 areas with 300,000 inhabitants in China.

Global Pharma Health Fund

The Global Pharma Health Fund e.V. (GPHF) is a charitable organization initiated and funded exclusively by donations from Merck KGaA, Darmstadt Germany. In 2007, it took over the work of the former German Pharma Health Fund, which was set up in 1985. The organization aims to improve health care in the context of development assistance, in particular the use of the GPHF-Minilab in the fight against counterfeit drugs.

GlaxoSmithKline: Namibia Sanitation & Hygiene Program

Nearly 1.3 million of Namibia's population of just over 2 million do not have access to proper toilet facilities, including 84% of all people living in rural areas. Diarrhea is the second highest cause of pediatric admissions in Namibia and is responsible for more than 30% of deaths in children under the age of five. In order to achieve the UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the Namibian government's aim for 2015 is to ensure that at least 62% of people will have access to adequate sanitation.

GlaxoSmithKline & Integrated Management of Childhood Illness

The World Health Organization (WHO) and UNICEF developed Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI) as an improved delivery strategy for child survival interventions. GlaxoSmithKline has been involved with IMCI since 1996 when it initiated an unique partnership with the South African Ministry of Health. Since then, GSK has entered into public-private partnership agreements with WHO, UNICEF, National Ministries of Health and/or NGOs for the implementation of the IMCI strategy or components thereof in Ethiopia, Namibia, Nigeria, Ghana and Kenya.

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