Search Results
- All results (4187)
- Offers (1)
- Customs (24)
- Resources (125)
- Standards (11)
- Organisations (3864)
- News (13)
- Stories (129)
- Quotes (7)
- Guidelines (2)
- Videos (9)
World Health Organisation (WHO) Model List of Essential Medicines
The WHO Model List of Essential Medicines is a list of the minimum medicine needs for a basic health care system. The list has been updated every two years since 1977. The current version, the 17th list, dates from March 2011. It contains over 350 medicines.
Sanofi-aventis helps NGO to deliver supplies to earthquake victims in China
After the WenChuan Earthquake in May 2008, Sanofi-Aventis was among the first companies to donate 15 million RMB (1 million euros) to China’s Ministry of Health, as well as medicines valued at 500,000 RMB to local Sichuan Ministry of Health.
Handicap International and Sanofi -aventis develop a programme to fight diabetes in developing countries
In 2006, Sanofi-Aventis launched pilot programs to help improve diabetes disease management in developing countries, in conjunction with the NGO Handicap International, Sante Diabete Mali and other local NGOs in Africa, Asia and Latin America.
Heineken funds mobile health clinics in Namibia
In April 2010 the Heineken Africa Foundation approved the first project in Namibia to support the provision of mobile primary health care in rural Namibia. Funding was provided for the purchase of three mobile clinics and the support for implementation of a mobile health service programme by 2013....
WHO Guidelines for Health Care Equipment Donations
Many developing countries are increasingly dependent on donor assistance to meet the equipment needs of their health care systems. However, because not all important parameters are taken into consideration, donations sometimes do not achieve their intended objectives, and could even constitute...
LifeSpring Hospitals help to achieve Millennium Development Goals in India
LifeSpring Hospitals, a privately owned company, is increasing access to maternal health care for low-income Indian women in partnership with Business Call to Action, a global initiative that works to motivate businesses to design responsible investments that help to achieve the Millennium...
New Partnership for TB Control Links the Ethiopian Ministry of Health and Private Sector
Work by the Abt Associates-led USAID Private Sector Programme (PSP) helped the Ethiopian Federal Ministry of Health create a new partnership between the public and private healthcare sectors to improve access to Tuberculosis (TB) treatment.
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...
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...
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...
World Vision
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...
Be a Christ to the Poor Foundation
Be a Christ to the Poor Foundation was created to support the ministry of Hoima Diocese in Uganda by aiding orphans whose parents died of AIDS, supporting girls and women in rural communities through education and economic empowerment, bringing clean water and health services to the rural parts of...
Project HOPE (Health Opportunities for People Everywhere) - Tajikistan
Project HOPE's mission is to achieve sustainable advances in health care around the world. The essence of Project HOPE is teaching - the basis is partnership. Identifiable to many by the S.S. HOPE, the peacetime hospital ship, Project HOPE now conducts land-based medical training and health care...
American International Health Alliance (AIHA) - Russia Office
American International Health Alliance (AIHA) is focused on advancing global health through volunteer-driven partnerships that mobilise communities to better address healthcare priorities, while improving productivity and quality of care. AIHA achieves this goal by restructuring local and regional...
All India Mission
All India Mission is a Christian ministry headquartered in the USA that aims to reach the unreached communities in northeast India with the Gospel message. In addition to its faith-based activities, the Mission provides medical treatment, training, schools and orphanages, and helps to set up small...
BOLHY
BOLHY is a Senegalese company involved in the establishment and development of health facilities for African urban and rural areas.
Imperative Initiative for Motivation of Global Care IIMGC
Imperative Initiative for Motivation of Global Care (IIMGC) is an International human right, development and empowerment Non-Governmental Organization registered in Nigeria with special interests in vulnerable population, health, education and economic empowerment. The organization has a retinue of...
Society for Behavioural Therapy & Health (SBTH)
Society for Behavioural Therapy and Health (SBTH) is a public non-denominational Christian non-governmental, not-for-profit making indigenous organization based in Abuja, Federal Capital Territory, North Central, Nigeria. It was established in 2016 registered with the Corporate Affairs Commission...
Foundation For Poor Souls
FFPS ON WHEELS (MOBILE HOSPITAL PROGRAM) In Pakistan, access to healthcare has been a challenge. While the health statistics of rural population continue to be poor, the health status and access to health services of urban slum dwellers on the other has also surfaced to be equally deplorable....