Training

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.

China Diabetes Education Program

The China Diabetes Education Program (CDEP) is a Project HOPE initiative that was launched in 1998. In May 2007, corporate partners Becton Dickinson (BD), Eli Lilly & Company and Roche Diagnostics announced a two-year extension in their support for this program. The CDEP provides comprehensive diabetes training to local medical and healthcare providers - known as "Trained Trainers". To date, Trained Trainers working in 800 local hospitals and community care centers have successfully trained nearly 37,000 medical professionals and educated about 170,000 diabetes patients.

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.

Bidan Delima Midwife Training Program

The Bidan Delima Midwife Training Program seeks to increase the standard of care among Indonesian midwives.

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

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.

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