Training

The Saloum Islands, which have a population of 30,944 inhabitants spread across 16 islands, have the worst health indicators in Senegal and have also experienced severe cholera epidemics. The situation is made worse by conditions of poor hygiene and low health coverage due mainly to the remoteness of the islands. The Saloum Islands Health Care partnership Project between GlaxoSmithKline and the Ministry of Health and Medical Prevention of Senegal was started in July 2007 for an initial three year period. GSK has committed GBP 500,000 over four years, 2007-11.

In the aftermath of the devastating Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004, GSK is providing USD 133,509 of funding from June 2007 to June 2009 to help Sri Ramakrishna Math, a local NGO in the Chennai region of Tamil Nadu, to enroll an additional 420 local girls in its Nursing Training Course. Sri Ramakrishna Math Chennai, in partnership with Direct Relief International, had already conducted extensive relief work in the area immediately after the tsunami, providing medicines, food, shelter and clothing.

The World Health Organization (WHO) and UNICEF developed Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI) as an improved delivery strategy for child survival interventions. GlaxoSmithKline has been involved with IMCI since 1996 when it initiated an unique partnership with the South African Ministry of Health. Since then, GSK has entered into public-private partnership agreements with WHO, UNICEF, National Ministries of Health and/or NGOs for the implementation of the IMCI strategy or components thereof in Ethiopia, Namibia, Nigeria, Ghana and Kenya.

Program to train Advanced Trauma Operative Management (ATOM) in Western Africa.