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Computerized Training for Management of Childhood Diseases

Every year, almost 10 million children die before they reach their fifth birthday. Many of these deaths could be avoided if those children received timely and appropriate care. It is the goal of the World Health Organization (WHO) to reduce the infant and child mortality rate by two-thirds by 2015 (compared with 1990). One of the most promising instruments for achieving this goal is the Integrated Management of Childhood Diseases (IMCI), an approach to managing the most common diseases such as pneumonia, diarrhea, malaria, measles, or malnutrition.

Collaboration for Health in Papua New Guinea (CHPNG)

Papua New Guinea has the highest incidence of HIV in the Pacific region. An estimated 2 per cent of the adult population is now HIV positive. Recent research predicts that unless interventions to address the spread and impact are stepped up, by 2025 adult prevalence will have escalated to 11 per cent. Left unchecked, Papua New Guinea will be in a similar position to that of parts of Africa, where the impact of HIV has been felt in every aspect of society and the economy.

Changing Diabetes in Children

The Changing Diabetes in Children program is part of Novo Nordisk's Access to Diabetes Care strategy and aims at improving availability, accessibility, affordability and quality of diabetes care for children with type 1 diabetes in least developed countries, via partnerships. It also contributes to the achievement of the UN Millennium Development Goals, especially Goal 4: Reduce child mortality and Goal 8: Develop a global partnership for development.

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.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation: Delivering Hope

'Delivering Hope' is a comprehensive effort to fight Hepatitis B and C in Asia, sponsored by the Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation. Delivering Hope has drawn upon the proven models created by the Foundation's work on HIV/AIDS in Africa to address a major health care challenge in resource-constrained settings.

Boehringer Ingelheim: Strengthening Healthcare Capacity

For years, Boehringer Ingelheim has been involved in health educational activities and training of health personnel in the field of HIV/AIDS and other diseases in various parts of the world. Opened in 2005, the Boehringer Ingelheim Training and Facilitation Unit in Gaborone, Botswana trains general practitioners, physicians, occupational health specialists, nurses, pharmacists, pharmacy technicians, medical store managers and healthcare managers.

AstraZeneca Breast Cancer Program in Ethiopia

In Ethiopia, AstraZeneca has been working since 2005 to help build local capability in managing breast cancer - the second most common cancer among young women in the country. The company's partner in this project is Axios, an organization that works with the private sector to advance healthcare in developing countries. In the developing world, the incidence of cancer is increasing. It is predicted that 20 million more people will be diagnosed by 2010, and 70% will live in countries that between them will have less than 5% of the resources for cancer control.

Associação Saude Da Familia HIV/AIDS Awareness

Associação Saude Da Familia (ASF) mobilizes community support in poor favelas in Sao Paulo, Brazil, to protect young people from unwanted pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases. This includes raising awareness and spreading information about HIV/AIDS. In these teeming slums, where drugs and violent crime are a constant reminder of the fragility of civil societies, ASF works with local community leaders, and municipal and state governments, to implement its programs to encourage safer and healthier behaviour.

Arpana Research and Charitable Trust

One of the biggest obstacles to improving the health of women and children, the aim of UN Millennium Development Goals 4 and 5, is inadequate primary care capacity. Pfizer has been working the Arpana Research and Charitable Trust, an NGO operating in rural and urban India, since 2002. Pfizer's funding and in-kind support is now focused on building technical capacity at Arpana Hospital, a 135-bed facility in rural Haryana, and in the NGOs' operations in two other Indian States.

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