Training

J&J Health Care Training Fund

The Johnson & Johnson Health Care Training fund was started in 2004. It is a collaboration between J&J and i+solutions in the Netherlands which specializes in pharmaceutical supply chain management training in developing countries. Activities include: Training in 'Supply Chain Management of HIV/AIDS Medicines & Supplies'.

International Trachoma Initiative (ITI)

The International Trachoma Initiative (ITI) is the only organization dedicated solely to the elimination of blinding trachoma.

Integrated Midwives Association of the Philippines

Johnson & Johnson supports training of IMAP midwives. More than 170 have been trained in the past few years.

Initiative Access: Access to Primary Health Care in Mali

Since 2001, the Novartis Foundation for Sustainable Development partners with the Ministries of Health and Social Development to improve the access to primary health care services in rural areas of Mali. Poor rural populations in Mali are faced with multiple obstacles when seeking healthcare such as mobilizing resources within their family and community to be able to overcome the great distance to the nearest health center.

India Diabetes Educator Project

In November 2007, Bayer HealthCare, Becton Dickinson (BD), and Lilly agreed to support Project Hope's "India Diabetes Educator Project." This four-year, multi-million dollar collaborative program aims to help health care workers in India reduce morbidity and mortality related to diabetes and to combat the rapidly growing threat of diabetes there.

Hypertension Program in China

In 2006, Pfizer initiated a pilot Disease Management Program (DMaP-pilot) with the Shanghai Center for Disease Prevention and Control (CDC) to help manage and reverse hypertension and related cardiovascular risk factors, Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death and disease burden in urban centers in China, and the program is aligned with the Chinese government's aims to develop the national health care system at the community level and to cope with the heavy burden of chronic diseases.

Home-Based Newborn Care (HBNC) Initiative

The Home-Based Newborn Care (HBNC) initiative aims to train a sufficient number of community midwives in the most underserved areas to save newborns' lives. After taking a series of intensive courses, the community midwives can provide a continuum of quality care from pregnancy through birth and early infancy. The care includes drying the newborn, keeping the baby warm, initiating breastfeeding, giving special care to low-birth weight newborns, and diagnosing and treating common infant infections.

HIV South Africa

HIV South Africa provides a wide variety of Johnson & Johnson healthcare products to community-based organizations that provide care and support to HIV patients in their homes.

Health Training at Egypt's National Training Institute

Pfizer works with the Egyptian Ministry of Health and Project HOPE to equip Egypt's National Training Institute (NTI) to provide state-of-the-art training for physicians, nurses and health professionals in Egypt and the Middle East in Infection Control, Family Medicine, Ophthalmology, Urology, General Surgery, Research Methodology, and Healthcare Management. Pfizer also helped upgrade laboratories and training equipment. Nearly 15,000 physicians have been trained through 220 training courses and 21 symposia.

Global Campaign to End Fistula

The Global Campaign to End Fistula seeks to reduce the prevalence of fistula in developing countries.

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