partnership

AmeriCares Honors Merck with Power of Partnership Award

AmeriCares has presented its annual Power of Partnership Award to Merck & Co. Inc. in recognition of the company's outstanding commitment to helping disaster survivors and improving health in the developing world.

GlaxoSmithKline, Save The Children Form Partnership To Save Children’s Lives

“GlaxoSmithKline [GSK] is giving Save the Children $23 million and entering into a five-year partnership with the charity to try to save the lives of one million children,” the Associated Press/Bloomberg Businessweek reports. GSK “said the partnership would set a new standard for how companies and charities could work together,” according to BBC News.

Drugmakers, health groups bring poor girls vaccine

Two multinational drugmakers are teaming up with top global health groups to protect millions of girls in the world's poorest countries from deadly cervical cancer. Starting with pilot programs in eight Asian and African nations, the ambitious project ultimately is intended to inoculate more than 30 million girls in more than 40 countries by 2020. Given that most women killed by cervical cancer live in developing countries, the project could have a huge impact.

Japanese pharma companies to help medicine research in developing countries

Five Japan-based pharmaceutical companies are forming a public-private partnership with the Japanese government to help developing countries fight infectious diseases. Called the Global Health Innovative Technology (GHIT), the fund will be composed of Takeda, Astellas, Daiichi-Sankyo, Eisai and Shionogi plus the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Japanese government to develop medicine, vaccines and diagnostics for these countries.

Research-based pharmaceutical industry and International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies join forces to prevent non-communicable diseases

The International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers & Associations (IFPMA) and the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) announced today a partnership on NCD prevention. The two-year partnership involves support from both organizations to design a behavioral change-based toolkit that promotes healthy lifestyle choices at national and community levels. Through its volunteer network and community-based expertise, the IFRC will make the toolkit available to approximately 3 million people worldwide.

Africa: Saving Mothers - a New Initiative to Address Maternal Mortality

Pregnancy-related deaths remain an acute problem in many places, despite overall global declines in rates of maternal mortality. Every day, nearly 800 women die from complications in pregnancy or childbirth, and 99 percent of these deaths occur in developing countries. Saving Mothers, Giving Life (SMGL) is a public-private partnership designed to reduce maternal mortality by up to 50 percent in selected districts in Zambia and Uganda this year. SMGL builds on U.S. investments through the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), the U.S. Agency for International Development, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Peace Corps, and the Department of Defense. The other SMGL partners include the governments of Norway, Zambia, and Uganda, the Merck for Mothers program, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, and Every Mother Counts.

Private Sector Partnerships Can Transform Global Health

There's a growing and welcome awareness that the world's biggest health challenges have profound economic implications as well. This is important information for the private sector, with global business leaders gathering this week at the World Economic Forum in Davos. Global health is a key topic there because companies recognize that their competitiveness and the health of communities where they do business are mutually dependent.

Open Access Initiative Reveals Drug Hits for Deadly Neglected Tropical Diseases

The Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi) and Medicines for Malaria Venture (MMV) announce today the identification of three chemical series targeting the treatment of deadly neglected tropical diseases (NTDs), through DNDi's screening of MMV's open access Malaria Box. The resulting DNDi screening data are among the first data generated on the Malaria Box to be released into the public domain, exemplifying the potential of openly sharing drug development data for neglected patients.

Rotary International and Global Partners Contribute to a Polio-Free India

Washington, D.C. (November 3, 2012) —The Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) and its members are pleased to celebrate one of the most significant global health achievements of the 21st century. For over the past three years, we have supported Rotary International’s PolioPlus program in India through grants and contributions, some of which have been matched by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

World Polio Day

October 24, 2012 marks World Polio Day -- the first since India was removed from the list of countries with active transmission of wild poliovirus. 

In 1988, the forty-first World Health Assembly adopted a resolution for the worldwide eradication of polio. It marked the launch of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI), spearheaded by national governments, WHO, Rotary International, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), UNICEF, and supported by key partners including the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. 

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