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Pharmacieplus and Terre des hommes engaged in partnership since 2005

Pharmacieplus is a network of 88 independent drugstores in Switzerland that has been engaged in a partnership with Terre des hommes (Tdh), a Swiss children’s aid NGO, since 2005.

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Development of art therapy for psychiatric disorders by Pfizer Slovakia

Pfizer Slovakia decided to support League for Mental Health in the development of art-therapy, through the project “Searching for a talent”.

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Developing Successful Global Health Alliances

Developing Successful Global Health Alliances, a study by McKinsey&Company at the request of the Bill&Melinda Gates Foundation, assesses the state of global health alliances. The study reviewed whether alliances are appropriate, whether initiatives were progressing toward their stated...

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TravelHealth

TravelHealth offers practical health advice and vaccinations for travellers.

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Pfizer Global Health Fellows: Expanding Access to Healthcare Through Cross-Sector Partnerships

Pfizer Global Health Fellows: Expanding Access to Healthcare Through Cross-Sector Partnerships, a case study, evaluates the response of Pfizer Inc. to the HIV/AIDs endemic. It focuses on the efforts of the its Fellows Program to support HIV/AIDS service NGOs in developing countries. In this...

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WHO Guidelines for Medicine Donations

WHO Guidelines for Drug Donations, updated in 2010, were developed by the World Health Organization (WHO) in cooperation with major international humanitarian agencies. The Guidelines aim to improve the quality of medicine donations and are intended to serve as a basis for national or institutional...

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Financial inclusion improves Sanitation and Health (FINISH)

FINISH is an action research project set up by UNU-MERIT a research and training centre of the United Nations University in Holland, working in close collaboration with the University of Maastricht.

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Sanofi Aventis and Handicap International cooperate to help earthquake victims in Pakistan

On October 8, 2005, an earthquake of magnitude 7.6 on the Richter scale struck the north of Pakistan, causing over 73,000 deaths and nearly 3.5 million homeless. Sanofi-aventis reacted by donating medicine for emergency kits sent by TULIPE (Emergency Transfers from the Pharmaceutical Industry),...

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Lilial and Disability Dreams and Freedom cooperate to send aid to Morocco

The French NGO Handicap, Rêve, et Liberté (Disability, Dreams and Freedom) has been assisting people with disabilities in Morocco since 2005, by sending equipment for the use of people with disabilities, setting up workshops to repair the equipment, and by training health workers and people with...

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LifeSpring Hospital CARES

This video was shot in Hyderabad for LifeSpring Hospital and introduces the mission and beliefs of the hospital.

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Becton, Dickinson and Company(BD) launches cross-border volunteer programme to improve medical services in Ghana and Zambia

BD's launched a cross-border volunteer programme in 2005 in partnership with the Catholic Medical Mission Board (CMMB) and Direct Relief International.

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Mobile Telesystems (MTS) helps to improve health in Belarus

MobileTeleSystems (MTS), the largest cell phone provider in Belarus, provides telecommunication services to hospitals, while also improving the health care of the poor.

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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.

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A to Z Textile Mills: A Public Private Partnership Providing Long-Lasting Anti-Malaria Bed Nets to the Poor in Tanzania

Malaria, transmitted through mosquito bites, kills a million people worldwide each year. In 2004, A to Z Textile Mills of Tanzania became the sole African producer of long-lasting insecticide treated bed nets, able to kill mosquitoes on contact for five years without retreatment and resistant to...

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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.

Africure Community Health Development Organization (ACHDO)

Africure Community Health Development Organization (ACHDO) Is a registered NGO operating in Eastern Uganda. It has a wide range of projects it’s implementing. The organization runs a medical center called Africure International Medical Center as private not for profit (PNFP), founded in November...

Raise the Roof Academy

Raise the Roof Academy (RTRA) began operations on March 7th, 2011, in greater Masaka, Uganda. It’s a registered indigenous Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) with NGO file number MIA/NB/2019/09/3003 and Permit number INDP0003003NB serving the grass root community. Originally serving just 30...

Kizazi Kkipya RHS

A Kenyan organization specializing in providing free family planning services, maternal and child health care and general reproductive health services, to poor women in both rural and urban areas.

Education Center for Helpless Children

The Education Center for Helpless Children (ECHC) provides education, accommodation, food and health for orphaned and needy children.

Global Transitions, Inc.

Global Transitions, Inc.(GTI) is and has been engaged in: donations of food, clothing, and medical supplies to beneficiaries in more than 50 countries for the US Departments of State and Defense, and the US Agency for International Development(USAID); food supplements for vulnerable elderly and...