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ViiV Healthcare's Positive Action on HIV/AIDS

Set up in 1992, Positive Action is ViiV Healthcare's international HIV/AIDS education, care and community support program. It works with community organizations to build capacity to counter the ignorance and stigma surrounding HIV and AIDS through outreach, education and advocacy. In 2009, ViiV Healthcare provided more than GBP 1 million, funding projects in 46 countries across Africa, Asia, Latin America and Eastern Europe.

Save the Children

Since 1998, Johnson & Johnson has partnered with Save the Children in efforts to educate children and their families in the Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam about child development, health and nutrition. The partnership's first project involved integrating personal, community and environmental hygiene instruction into school curricula in Thailand. Johnson & Johnson has provided more than USD 1.1 million in grants, contributions, matching gifts and in-kind gifts.

Sanofi-aventis: My Child Matters

In 2004, sanofi-aventis and the International Union Against Cancer (UICC) launched a mobilization and awareness program called 'My Child Matters', to fight against childhood cancers in emerging countries. The objective is to encourage institutions (hospitals, NGOs, etc.) to develop pragmatic approaches to improve awareness, early diagnosis, access to care and treatment, pain control and better management of the social and cultural aspects of the disease for both children and families.

Sanofi-aventis: Mental Health Disorders (Schizophrenia)

Sanofi-aventis, one of the major actors in the central nervous system therapeutic field in the developed world, is developing new programs to help provide better care for schizophrenia - one of the most severe mental disorders - in developing countries. There, these psychotic patients not only suffer from the disabling and potentially life-threatening symptoms of their illness, but they are also victims of ignorance, discrimination and social stigma.

Sanofi-aventis Children's Programs

Sanofi-aventis supports a number of projects in developing countries, the main purpose of which is to help improve children's health.

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.

Novo Nordisk: Haemophilia Foundation

The Novo Nordisk Haemophilia Foundation (NNHF) was created in 2005 to address the significant need to improve haemophilia treatment in developing countries, where it is not a healthcare priority and many patients go undiagnosed or are inadequately treated. Consequently, life expectancy for people with haemophilia is low and treatment with clotting factors is suboptimal. NNHF is an independent trust, located in Zurich, Switzerland, and funds programs to improve hemophilia care, treatment and awareness in the developing world.

Leprosy Elimination

Novartis is providing free treatment for leprosy patients worldwide through its multi-drug therapy.

JPMA's HIV/AIDS Training Program

The Japan Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association (JPMA) has, at its own expense, commissioned the ASEAN Institute for Health Development (AIHD) to train medical professionals in ASEAN member countries in the 'Management of Community-based Prevention of HIV/AIDS and Care'. This two-week course is intended to contribute to the promotion of the physical and mental health care of patients and residents through the professional development of health workers in the AIDS-related divisions of public institutions.

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