Swaziland

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 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.

Mothers 2 Mothers Mentoring Program

Mothers 2 Mothers (M2M) provides education for South African HIV-positive pregnant women about how to prevent mother-to-child transmission of the disease and later mentor other HIV-positive pregnant women.

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.

GlaxoSmithKline - Other HIV/AIDS Capacity-Building Initiatives

The GlaxoSmithKline Foundation supports a range of HIV/AIDS-related programs around the world. Since 1998, the GSK France Foundation has supported 86 programs to improve healthcare through prevention, education and training in 14 developing countries. The GSK Foundation Canada also supports community programs in Africa, including AIDS Orphans Uganda, working with the African Medical Research Foundation (AMREF).

Bristol-Myers Squibb's Secure The Future Children's Clinics & Pediatric AIDS Corps

Bristol-Myers Squibb's Secure The Future initiative (see HIV/AIDS Capacity Building), in partnership with Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA, funded the first clinical center in Africa for children and families with HIV/AIDS, located in Botswana. This center now has more than 1,500 children under treatment. Additional children's clinical centers have now been opened in Lesotho, Swaziland and Uganda, and two more are being built in Tanzania and Kenya.

Bristol-Myers Squibb's Secure The Future

Secure The Future is a comprehensive initiative to fight HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa, sponsored by Bristol-Myers Squibb and the Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation. It combines medical treatment and care, access to antiretroviral medicines, with research, social support with community education, and training for health care professionals with new facilities and infrastructure investments in remote areas of sub-Saharan Africa where resources are extremely limited.

Boehringer Ingelheim Access

Boehringer Ingelheim offers its product Viramune® for single-dose use in the prevention of mother-to-child transmission for free and/or reduced prices.

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