Programs

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

The Global Pharma Health Fund e.V. (GPHF) is a charitable organization initiated and funded exclusively by donations from Merck KGaA, Darmstadt Germany. In 2007, it took over the work of the former German Pharma Health Fund, which was set up in 1985. The organization aims to improve health care in the context of development assistance, in particular the use of the GPHF-Minilab in the fight against counterfeit drugs.

The Guinea Worm Eradication Program aims to rid future generations of guinea worm by the year 2005. Today, through the joint efforts of this initiative's many partners, the numbers of this disease have been reduced worldwide by 99 percent: from an estimated 3.5 million cases in 1986 to fewer than 35,000 reported cases in 2003. Today, it is the last one percent of the disease that is being fought.

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.

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.

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.

'Only people can liberate themselves from the AIDS epidemic'. These are the motivating words behind the Total Control of the Epidemic (TCE) program, which was created by the International Humana People to People Movement. Driven by a grassroots door-to-door approach, TCE has been completed in 24 areas with 2,340,000 inhabitants and at present is operating in 62 areas with 6,170,000 inhabitants in Africa, 2 areas with 200,000 inhabitants in India and 3 areas with 300,000 inhabitants in China.

Eli Lilly and Company has agreed to support the International Diabetes Federation's program 'Bringing Research In Diabetes to Global Environments and Systems' (BRIDGES) with USD 10 million funding over seven years. The BRIDGES grant research program will provide the opportunity to 'translate' lessons learned from clinical research to those who can benefit most: people with diabetes.

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.

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.

The International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI) was created in 1996 out of the recognition that the best long-term solution to the growing AIDS epidemic is a vaccine.

The International Rescue Committee (IRC) reintegrates displaced children into society.