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Public-Private Partnership Provides Health Insurance for the Poor in the Republic of Georgia

Since 2004, the USAID-funded, Abt Associates-led CoReform Project has provided on-the-ground technical assistance to the Government of Georgia. The assistance focuses on exploring different health financing, health policy, and service delivery options to overcome barriers to high quality health...

Open Door Family Medical Centers of Westchester County awarded Dannon's Next Generation Nutrition Grant

The Dannon Company, Inc. awarded Open Door Family Medical Centers of Westchester County its 2011 Next Generation Nutrition® Grant and $30,000 in support of its Fit for Life programme.

Taproot Foundation works with non-profit organisations

Taproot is a non-profit organisation that engages design, marketing, IT, strategic management, and human resources professionals in pro bono to build the infrastructure of other non-profit organisations.

The MDGs: Everyone’s Business

The MDGs: Everyone’s Business is a new report from UNDP’s Growing Inclusive Markets (GIM) Initiative covering 40 case studies and over 140 supporting institutions referenced by specific MDGs, released on 21 September 2010 in the framework of the United Nations Summit on the Millennium Development...

Parternships in Belarus providing affordable Health Care to the Poor

Cardiovascular diseases are common among the population of Belarus. Belarus lacks quick cardiac diagnostic and treatment services in many remote areas outside of major cities. Telemedicine offers a solution to this problem by connecting a doctor in a local hospital with a cardiac specialist in a...

Sanofi-aventis and WHO partner to fight sleeping sickness in Africa

Sanofi-aventis, the largest pharmaceutical company in Europe and the fourth-largest in the world, began a partnership with the World Health Organization (WHO) in 2001 to fight sleeping sickness and other neglected diseases affecting the world’s poorest people.

Strategic partnerships improve child health in Mali

Pésinet, devised in 2002 by Brussels-based Afrique Initiatives, is an early warning method for monitoring the health conditions of children from low-income families. Its concept is simple: mothers subscribe to Pésinet’s services for a nominal fee, and in return a local Pésinet representative weighs...

Partnerships bring fuel services to northern Mozambique medical clinics

In a country with 500 doctors for almost 20 million people, initiatives that can expand the reach of health services to rural people are in critical demand but in short supply. In northern Mozambique, the big challenge for health clinics is the lack of reliable fuel to light medical operations and...

UNILAB supports Governments campaign to make medicine accessible to the poor

The market price of medicines in the Philippines is among the highest in the world—40%–70% more than in neighbouring countries, according to the Philippine Department of Health. Some drugs cost 10 times more in the Philippines than in neighbouring countries.

Air Miles and Etihad Airways raises 11.4 million air miles for Medecins Sans Frontieres

Air Miles, the Middle East's leading multi-participant loyalty programme, has partnered with its UAE cardholders to raise a whopping 11.4 million Air Miles for Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), an international medical and humanitarian aid organisation.

Millennium Development Goals: 2010 Progress Chart

This chart presents an assessment of progress so far for selected indicators and regions, on the basis of information available as of June 2010. While some indicators reflect data as recent as 2010, others rely on older statistics, dating as far back as 2005.

UN-Water Global Analysis and Assessment of Sanitation and Drinking-Water (GLAAS)

GLAAS is a UN-Water initiative implemented by the World Health Organization (WHO)

Prophetic Awareness & Healing Ministries (PAAHM)

Prophetic Awareness and Healing Ministries (PAAHM) is a nonprofit ministry that aims to support the depraved, orphans, abandoned and vulnerable children including widows of AIDS victims. Working in US and some parts of East Africa like Kenya and Uganda, PAAHM has become more passionate about...

STEP (Social Transformation and Educational Prosperity)

STEP (Social Transformation and Educational Prosperity) is a Pakistani NGO based in Faisalabad. STEP aims to raise awareness in the deprived and marginalised sections of the community, including women. STEP focuses on education, health and general self-development. STEP Vision: STEP envisions...

Volunteer Service and Support Nepal (VSSN)

Volunteer Service and Support Nepal (VSSN) is a non-profit organization founded by a group of development specialists, social workers, cultural and tourism experts and ex-volunteers, that raises funds to provide programs and services to children and families, schools, orphanages, health centers...

Centre for HIV/AIDS and STD Research (CHISTRE)

The Centre for HIV/AIDS and STD Research (CHISTRE) is a Nigerian NGO that works with and for people affected by HIV/AIDS. CHISTRE's main focus is on rural areas, concentrating on the development of projects offering prevention services, as well as providing care to orphaned and vulnerable...

Buddu Social Development Association (BUSODA) Verified non-profit organisation

Buddu Social Development Association (BUSODA)is a registered NGOworking with orphans and vulnerable children and women in poor rural communities of Masaka in southern Uganda. BUSODA works with its partners on HIV/AIDS information and prevention programmes, conducts advocacy activities on behalf...

National Veterans Foundation (NVF)

National Veterans Foundation (NVF) offers emotional support and information about the services and resources available to veterans in the community. NVF provides crisis intervention, benefits counseling, medical treatment, food or shelter, legal aid, and training for employment.

World Vision Verified non-profit organisation

World Vision is a Christian humanitarian organization dedicated to working with children, families, and communities worldwide to reach their full potential by tackling the causes of poverty and injustice. World Vision serves all people, regardless of religion, race, ethnicity, or gender. We serve...

Humanity at Heart

Humanity at Heart provides aid, support and training, either directly or in partnership with other charities, to the most disadvantaged people in Romania. It aims to help them to escape the cycle of social and economic poverty. Aid includes food and clothing, health and hygiene facilities, and...