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Global Alliance for TB Drug Development (TB Alliance)

The partnership functions as a virtual R&D organization. By outsourcing medicine research and development projects, medicine compounds are moved along the development line to achieve regulatory approval and bring them to market at affordable prices for those countries experiencing the highest burden from TB.

GlaxoSmithKline's PHASE Program

GlaxoSmithKline's Personal Hygiene & Sanitation Education (PHASE) project is helping to reduce diarrhea-related disease by encouraging school children to wash their hands. GSK established PHASE in 1998 and has so far invested over USD 7 million in the program. PHASE is run in partnership with AMREF, Save the Children and Earth Institute at Columbia University, as well as national Ministries of Health and Education in countries where the program is active. The program has had impressive results so far.

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).

Eurartesim International Development Program

Sigma-Tau S.p.A. and Medicines for Malaria Venture (MMV) have completed development of Eurartesim a fixed-dose Artemisinin-based Combination Therapy (ACT) which contains dihydroartemisinin (a derivative of artemisinin) and piperaquine. Eurartesim is indicated for the treatment of uncomplicated Plasmodium falciparum malaria. The registration dossier has been submitted to EMA on July 2009. The registration is expected during Q4 2010. After that, dossiers will be submitted to the endemic countries.

Empowering Africa's Young People Initiative

Johnson & Johnson partners with the International Youth Foundation on the HIV/AIDS prevention program Empowering Africa's Young People Initiative in Zambia. Support from Johnson & Johnson enables the International Youth Foundation to expand its services and training, including increasing the number of peer educators who teach other youth in their communities about preventing the spread of HIV/AIDS. Since the partnership began in 2006, more than 1,900 peer educators have been trained.

Children Without Worms

Children Without Worms (CWW) is a partnership between Johnson & Johnson and the Task Force for Child Survival and Development that supports global efforts to reduce soil-transmitted helminth (STH) infections (intestinal worms) in children. Operating through partnerships with governments, communities, and NGOs, CWW seeks to treat 25 million children twice a year, as part of a larger campaign to increase awareness of STH, hygiene education, and the need for improved sanitation infrastructure and access to clean water.

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.

Bayer Schering Pharma & Family Planning

For more than 46 years, Bayer Schering Pharma AG (part of Bayer HealthCare) has been supporting family planning programs in 132 countries with its high quality products in close co-operation with government organizations (BMZ - German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, KFW - German Development Bank, GTZ - German Association for Technical Co-operation, the UK's DFID and DANIDA), multilateral organizations (UNFPA, the World Bank, the WHO, and USAID), and private organizations (International Planned Parenthood Federation, Population Services International, Marie Stopes

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