2009 Nominees List
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Background & Criteria
2009 Nominees List
Past Award Recipients
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The Gates Award for Global Health - 2009 Nominees |
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The following is a complete list of the qualified organizations that have been nominated for the 2009 Gates Award for Global Health.
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African Population and Health Research Center
The African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC) is a non-profit, non-governmental international organization committed to conducting high quality and policy-relevant research on population and health issues facing sub-Saharan Africa. The Center was established in 1995 as a Population Policy Research Fellowship program of the Population Council, with funding from the Rockefeller Foundation. In 2001, it became an autonomous institution with headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya. APHRC's research focuses on improving understanding of population and health issues through development and implementation of innovative, policy-oriented research programs to address the region's key population and health challenges.
Nairobi, Kenya
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Africare
Africare is a leader among private, charitable U.S. organizations assisting Africa. Established in Niger in 1971, Africare's programs address needs in three principal areas: health and HIV/AIDS, food security and agriculture and emergency response. Complementing and extending its work in those focus areas, Africare supports programs in water resource development, environmental management, literacy and vocational training, microenterprise development, civil-society development and governance. Africare reaches families and communities in some 25 countries in every major region of Sub-Saharan Africa, from Senegal to South Africa and from Chad to Mozambique. Since its founding, Africare has delivered more than $710 million in assistance - over 2,000 projects - to 36 countries Africa-wide.
Washington, D.C., USA
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Aga Khan Development Network
The Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN) focuses on health, education, culture, rural development, institution-building and the promotion of economic development. It is dedicated to improving living conditions and opportunities for the poor, without regard to their faith, origin or gender. The Aga Khan Foundation (AKF) including the Aga Khan Rural Support Programmes and the Mountain Societies Development Support Programme, the Aga Khan University (AKU), Aga Khan Heath Services (AKHS), Aga Khan Education Services (AKES), and the Aga Khan Planning and Building Services (AKPBS) operate in social development. While each agency pursues its own mandate, all of them work together within the overarching framework of the Aga Khan Development Network so that their different pursuits can interact and reinforce one another.
Aiglemont, France
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Ahfad University for Women (AUW)
The Ahfad University for Women (AUW) is a private, non-sectarian university for women located in Omdurman, Sudan. Founded in 1966 by Professor Yusuf Bedri with 23 students in the department of Family Sciences, AUW now has over 5,000 students and offers a five-year Bachelor's Degree (B.S. or B.A.) in six undergraduate schools and a Master's Degree in two areas. The goal of AUW is to prepare women to assume informed leadership roles in their families, communities and the nation. AUW works to achieve this goal by offering high quality instruction with emphasis on strengthening women's roles in national and rural development and achieving equity for women in Sudanese society.
Khartoum, Sudan
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AIDS Law Project
The AIDS Law Project (ALP) is a human rights organization that seeks to influence, develop and use the law to address the human rights implications of HIV/AIDS in South Africa both regionally and internationally. In particular, ALP uses legal and policy processes and litigation to protect, promote and advance the rights of people living with HIV/AIDS, as well as to change the socio-economic and other conditions that lead to the spread of infectious diseases and their disproportionate impact on the poor. In addition, it conducts and publishes research in order to assist with policy formulation and the development of appropriate legal and regulatory frameworks needed to respect, protect, promote and fulfill human rights.
Johannesburg, South Africa
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AmericaShare
AmericaShare, the nonprofit arm of Micato Safaris, is committed to helping the impoverished of Africa. For the past 20 years, AmericaShare has been working to help children and adults affected by poverty and the HIV/AIDS pandemic in Nairobi, Kenya. Funded entirely by Micato Safaris, AmericaShare channels donations made by its safari travelers, corporate donors, industry friends, and staff to the poor and vulnerable of Mukuru, one of Nairobi's most notorious slums.
New York, NY USA
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Anandjibhai Tibhai Patel Charitable Trust
Anandjibhai Tibhai Patel Chartitable Trust engages in a variety of efforts including earthquake relief campaigns, providing meals for the impoverished, women's welfare, and tiffin (free food) services to elderly and neglected elders. The trust also helps fund a clinic that serves over five hundred people per day with medication and surgical provisions. The trust organizes mass marriage ceremonies for impoverished couples including provision to start their own homes. Finally, the Trust organizes frequent medical campaigns and invites specialists in the fields of ENT, cardiac surgery, general health and educational counseling for HIV/AIDS patients and their families.
Gujarat, India
Asian Forum of Parliamentarians on Population & Development
Through an initiative from the United Nations Population Fund, AFPPD was formed in 1981 at the Asian Conference of Parliamentarians on Population and Development held in Beijing. AFPPD conducts regional and national seminars, conferences, and study visits as a means to help parliamentarians increase their level of knowledge, obtain more information on population and development, and enhance their involvement and motivation in the areas surrounding ICPD issues. AFPPD currently has twenty-two National Committees and has full-time office support in Australia, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, New Zealand, the Philippines, Republic of Korea, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Viet Nam.
Bangkok, Thailand
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Association RAMA
The Association RAMA was created to provide support to orphans and people who are HIV positive in Burundi. RAMA was created in 1996 and received ministerial approval in March 2002. Rama woks to bring greater awareness of HIV/AIDS to the community, provide medical care for those who are HIV positive, lend support to people living with HIV/AIDS and orphans, organize home medical care for infected persons and support work programs for those living with HIV/AIDS. RAMA distributes condoms, administers testing for STDs, and provides counselling and food supplies to those housing and schooling orphans. Today, RAMA takes care of 1,125 people of which 117 are orphans.
Bujumbura, Burundi
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Bharat Integrated Social Welfare Agency (BISWA)
Bharat Integrated Social Welfare Agency (BISWA) was established as a philanthropic organization in 1994 to alleviate the needs of the impoverished in India. BISWA supports the promotion of self help groups (SHGs), extending Micro-finance, encouraging Micro-enterprise, ensuring social justice for the disabled, socio-economic rehabilitation of leprosy-cured persons, and creating an improved standard of living for the impoverished. BISWA's mission is to make a real and lasting social, financial, psychological and spiritual impact on individuals, help build strong cohesive communities and generate substantial employment opportunities by increasing the availability of a wide range of services. At present, BISWA is actively engaged in different developmental activities in 30 districts of Orissa and 16 districts of Chattisgarh. It also works for the Nodal Agency of Rastriya Mahila Kosh for the State of Chhatisgarh. It has more then 61 Outreach offices in total.
Sambalpur, India
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BioVision Foundation
BioVision is a nonprofit, non-political and non-denominational Swiss foundation for sustainable development. BioVision works for the dissemination, implementation and application of scientifically founded methods for the improvement and sustainable development of living conditions in Africa as well as in the fight against poverty. BioVision was founded in 1998 by Dr. Hans Rudolf Herren, with the aim to improve the living conditions of people in Africa and conserve nature as the basis of all life. BioVision encourages ecological thinking, action, and "Help for Self-Help". BioVision maintains that sustainable development takes place through an integrated approach which takes into account ecological, economic and social factors.
Zurich, Switzerland
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BOSS & CIPCA
The Blood donor Organization for Social Service was opened by Dr. Rayapu Ramesh Babu in 1987 in Pakala, India and was inaugurated by Her Holiness Mother Teresa that same year. Today, BOSS is comprised of 475 doctors and 8900 member blood donors. In 1991, upon the success of BOSS the Centre for Information, Prevention and Counselling on AIDS (CIPCA) was opened. BOSS and CIPCA work to bring greater awareness to HIV/AIDS, prevention, containment and education on HIV/AIDS and other STDs, and testing and treatment. BOSS and CIPCA also engage in seminars and campaigns throughout India.
Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh State, India
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CAARE, Inc.
CAARE, Inc. is a nonprofit community-based organization, whose purpose is to support, educate and empower the HIV/AIDS infected and high risk population in Durham, North Carolina. Today CAARE's Outreach and Prevention program has helped decrease the spreading of HIV and STDs, by educating much of Durham's high risk population about the causes and effects of HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases. CAARE's Case Management and Transitional Housing programs have helped hundreds of HIV infected and affected clients lead healthier and more fulfilling lives, by providing them access to a wide range of psycho-social, educational and healthcare services.
Durham, North Carolina, USA
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California Safe Schools
California Safe Schools is a project of Community Partners and works to bring greater awareness to pesticides that pose risks to human health and the environment, with special risks to children. California Safe Schools recognizes that pesticides cause adverse health effects in humans such as cancer, neurological disruption, birth defects, genetic alteration, reproductive harm, immune system dysfunction, endocrine disruption and acute poisoning. California Safe Schools provides alternatives for pest control to protect the health and safety of students and staff, to maintain a productive learning environment and to maintain the integrity of school buildings and grounds.
Toluca Lake, California, USA
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Cancer Aid Society
The Cancer Aid Society is a non-profit, Indian NGO working in tune with the guidelines of National Cancer Control Program of the World Health Organization to generate awareness amongst children and adults on cancer related matters. The Cancer Aid Society has earned a reputation among cancer societies for its work across the country on the control of cancer by emphasizing tobacco abuse (active and passive smoking), carcinogens, good dietary habits, exercise, healthy lifestyle, genital and personal hygiene and recognizing early symptoms of cancer. The Cancer Aid Society aims to decrease the mortality rate of cancer by two-thirds through primary prevention and early detection.
Uttar Pradesh, India
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Centre de Recherche pour le Développement
The Centre de Recherche pour la Développement is engaged in researching and promoting health issues that are crucial for individuals who lack access to conventional health care and resources in impoverish settings such as the rural and urban areas of Haiti.
Peguyville, Haiti
Centres pour le Développement et la Santé (CDS)
Founded in 1974 by a former minister of health and local small-business owners, CDS is Haiti's largest nonprofit group. CDS partners with international and national donors; with leaders in public and private sectors at national, regional, and local levels; with local decision-makers and influencers; and with individual community members and service beneficiaries to bring vital public health and development practices to more than 700,000 Haitians. By viewing community members and other stakeholders as critical collaborators rather than rivals or passive recipients, CDS has survived, sustained, and even expanded programs in spite of almost inconceivable conditions. For most of its 34-year existence, CDS has operated in a country plagued by natural disasters, brutal dictators, coups d'états, international occupations, staggering levels of crime (including drug trafficking) and violence, and repeated absences of a functional central government. CDS has made a tremendous and positive impact in Haiti and beyond through interrelated interventions including its community health model; local alliances with decision-makers and influencers like midwives and voudoun leaders; infrastructure improvements including a 100-bed hospital, schools, and a fresh water pipeline system; and publication and dissemination of research, lessons learned, and best practices.
Port-au-Prince, Haiti
Community Action for Rural Development- CARD
The Community Action for Rural Development (CARD) is a non-governmental organization established in 1982 by Mr. P.Vedachalam, a social worker at Pudukkottai in Tamilnadu, India. CARD works with rural and urban women, adolescent girls, village youths, school children, school drop-outs, elders, disabled persons and socially and economically disadvantages members of society to provide comprehensive development activities such as health programs, water, sanitation, hygiene education, non-formal education and skill training, creating employment opportunities, formation of co-operatives and people's organizations, organizing women, youth and elders. CARD also constructs low-income houses and provides the provision for accessible drinking water supplies and other related facilities. It also creates awareness among the rural population on various aspects of development for improving their standard of living.
Tamil Nadu, India
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Concern America
Concern America is a unique nonprofit, nonsectarian, nongovernmental development and refugee aid organization - unique in that its philosophy emphasizes the transference of skills and thus the creation of opportunity (seen as a more permanent solution), not just the placement of resources into impoverished regions. Concern America trains local populations in health, education, agriculture, and/or environmental health (appropriate technology), and accompanies these populations from eight to ten years, working with them to build locally functioning social systems that meet their basic needs. Eventually, the Concern America team can be withdrawn; leaving in place trained local people who are "capacitated" to continue the work and to bring it to neighboring communities. Concern America is currently engaged in development projects in Mexico, El Salvador, Guatemala, Bolivia, Colombia, Guinea, and Mozambique.
Santa Ana, California
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CURE International
CURE International is a Christian nonprofit organization committed to the physical and spiritual healing of disabled children in developing countries. CURE International transforms the lives of these children and their families, serving all by establishing specialty teaching hospitals, building partnerships and advocating for these children. To date CURE International has seen 700,000 patients, performed 48,000 life-changing surgeries, given 1,100 children new smiles, healed 2,000 children of club foot and provided 2,500 Afghan mothers with quality OB/GYN care. CURE has established a presence in 11 developing countries, and currently is planning to build hospitals in four more - Egypt, Ethiopia, Niger and Palestine. 100 percent of all financial donations go directly to supporting the needs of disabled children around the world - one donor covers the fundraising and administrative costs of the organization.
Lemoyne, PA, USA
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Daima Widows and Orphans and The Aged
The mission of Daima is to establish the Daima Centre as a home to orphans and vulnerable children (OVCs) and youths; to construct and equip a school to cater to pre-primary, primary and secondary school requirements for about 300 OVCs; to administer programs for the widows and the aged such as would cater to their psychological and material needs and to sponsor vulnerable youths for post-secondary professional training in colleges and universities.
Kisumu, Kenya
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East Meets West Foundation (EMW)
The mission of East Meets West Foundation (EMW) partners with the people of Vietnam to improve their health, education, and economic conditions in an effort to eradicate poverty and to help them achieve self-sufficiency. EMW's core programs focus on providing low-income children with a good education, clean water and vital medical care. Key interventions include a surgery program to heal heart defects in children (Operation Healthy Heart), a scholarship program to improve educational outcomes (SPELL), a dental program, support for children with disabilities and an innovative Clean Water Program that brings potable piped water to over a hundred thousand people in Vietnam.
Oakland, California, USA
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Edhi Foundation
Edhi Foundation is the largest and most organized social welfare system in Pakistan. The Foundation works around the clock, without discriminating on the basis of color, race, language, religion or politics. The Foundation modifies the phrase "live and let live" to "live and help live". The dynamic nature and the range of social services provided by Edhi Foundation makes it different from other similar organizations. The Foundation's activities include 24-hour emergency service across the country through 250 Edhi Centers, which provide free shrouding and burial of unclaimed bodies, shelter for the destitute, orphans and handicapped persons, free hospitals and dispensaries, rehabilitation of drug addicts, free wheel chairs, crutches and other services for the handicapped, family planning counseling and maternity services, national and international relief efforts for the victims of natural disasters.
New York, NY, USA
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"Elbrus", The Medical-Improving Center
The Medical-Improving Center "Elbrus" uses the method of normobaric hypooxytherapy with hyperoxygen interval to provide treatment mainly (98%) for children affected by Chernobyl, invalids and people with low income. More than 3 million people in Ukraine were affected by the Chernobyl catastrophe, among them more than 1.5 million children. They live in 12 regions of the country. These are the poorest citizens of the population, mainly unemployed, who receive very poor wages which is almost two times lower than the living wage.
Zhitomir, Ukraine
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Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation
The Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation creates a future of hope for children and families worldwide by eradicating pediatric AIDS, providing care and treatment to people with HIV/AIDS, and accelerating the discovery of new treatments for other serious and life-threatening pediatric illnesses.
Washington, D.C., USA
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Eminent Charitable and Humanitarian Foundation
The Eminent Council for Charitable & Humanitarian Affairs is an establishment by the elderly and eminent scholars in Nigeria. An accredited Council, registered and approved under The Federal Government of Nigeria, the Council was established in 1992 for charity and guidance to humanity. The aim of the council is to create a standard welfare system in Nigeria. The Council works to enhance quality of life for those who are suffering either through natural disaster or otherwise disadvantaged. The Council invests in today's children... the leaders of tomorrow - through knowledge and character - building education and guidance for them, their parents and their communities.
Osun, Nigeria
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EMPOWER Foundation
EMPOWER is a network established to promote opportunity, education and support for sex workers. Active since the onset of the AIDS epidemic in Thailand in 1984, Empower Foundation works to prevent HIV and protect the rights of sex workers. The Foundation's activities are designed, managed, and implemented by the sex workers themselves. Through nine centers in four locations, the Foundation actively serves 50,000 sex workers. Members at the centers teach safe sex skills and provide quality information and access to condoms. Empower Foundation uses street theater, t-shirts, posters, cartoons, and an innovative public education game to fight discrimination and increase the dignity and respect with which the government, the media, non-governmental organizations and the general public treat sex workers. Through these programs, Empower Foundation and its partners strive to empower people living with HIV to play a positive role in their health and lives.
Nontaburi, Thailand
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Ethiopian North American Health Professionals Association
The Ethiopian North American Health Professionals Association (ENAHPA) strives to improve healthcare standards, quality, access and delivery to Ethiopia. ENAHPA's was founded in November 1999 by 28 members in Detroit, Michigan who agreed to improve opportunities for medical education in Ethiopia by volunteering one to two weeks each year working in Ethiopian hospitals and clinics. The ENAHPA works to improve health care in Ethiopia through the transference of knowledge, skills and state-of-the-art technology, including the support of traveling international scholars' fellowship programs at overseas universities and institutions; building capacity for developing centers of excellence, human resources, procurement of equipment, medical supplies, pharmaceuticals products, books, journals and distance learning; creating new and expanding the existing infrastructure; providing a wide range of medical and surgical services, including public health and preventive initiatives; expanding scientific research and new developments and supporting orphan outreach and socio-economic development programs.
Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, United States
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Faculty of Medicine/College of Health Sciences, Makerere
The School of Medicine is a newly reconstituted program of the College of Health Sciences. Located at Mulago Hill and home to the Mulago National teaching and referral Hospital, the School has been a medical college since 1924. The Vision of the college is to be a center for excellence in academic and health service dedicated to improving the health of the people of Uganda. The school promotes health equity by providing quality education, research and health services. The school is able to achieve this by enhancing capacity and participation of stakeholders; strengthening systems and partnerships; and harnessing the power of new sciences and technology so as to build and sustain excellence and relevance. The school's approach to teaching and learning includes the Problem Based Learning (PBL), Community Based Education and Services (COBES), as well as models like SPICE.
Kampala, Uganda
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Family Care International
Family Care International (FCI) was established in 1987. Its founding vision was a strong commitment to improving maternal health - and that commitment remains central to the organization's mission. With eight field offices, FCI now spends over two-thirds of its budget on strengthening reproductive health programs in Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean. FCI creates tools and resources to strengthen services in more than 100 countries.
New York, NY, USA
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FDI World Dental Federation
FDI World Dental Federation is one of the oldest international professional organizations in the world. It was originally founded as the Federation Dentaire Internationale by Dr. Charles Godon from the École Dentaire de Paris and five other dentists in 1900 in Paris, France. The FDI currently has a membership of more than 190 member associations from more than 130 countries representing more than one million dentists globally. Five standing committees are responsible for addressing the issues of communications and member support, dental practice, education, science, world dental development and health promotion. Through its registered charity FDI World Dental Education, the FDI advances education in the science and practice of dentistry and in the provision of the best possible care in order to achieve and maintain oral health amongst the public throughout the world. The FDI is a non-governmental organization in official relation with the United Nations and the World Health Organization.
Ferney-Voltaire, France
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Female Community Health Volunteers of the Female Community Health Volunteer Program of Nepal
Recognizing the importance of public participation, especially women's participation in promoting health, HMG initiated the Female Community Health Volunteer (FCHV) Program. The Female Community Health Volunteers work to alleviate the majority of the health problems prevailing in the country particularly in the rural communities that are related to the health of women and children. High maternal mortality, high infant and child mortality, and low coverage of maternal and child health services are some of the examples that indicate the poor health status of women and children. The Female Community Health Volunteers was first started in 27 districts of Nepal including all 19 districts of the Central Development Region and eight districts of the Mid-Western Development Region. Today, it has been expanded to all 75 districts of the country. At present there are in total 48,164 reported FCHVs actively working all over the country.
Kathmandu, Nepal
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Fondation Pour la Santé Reproductrice et l'Education Familiale (FOSREF)
FOSREF is a Haitian non-governmental organization whose mission is to promote Reproductive Health Education for Haitians and their families, particularly young people. FOSREF aims to make Sexual Reproductive Health (SRH) services as well as family education to youths more accessible; reduce the incidence of early and unwanted pregnancy among youth and adolescents; reduce the incidence of STDs/HIV/AIDS among youth and adolescents; increase the safe sex practices among youth and offer SRH services to vulnerable groups-youth sex workers, street children, children living in domesticity, etc.
Port-au-Prince, Haiti
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The Foundation for Professional Development (FPD)
The Foundation for Professional Development (FPD) was established in October 1997 by the South African Medical Association and commenced its first course in 1998. In 2000 the FPD was registered as a separate legal entity. The FPD focuses on providing health sector specific management and leadership development, developing the clinical skills of health professionals, organizing conferences on health related subjects, conducting research and capacity development. The FPD is based on a virtual business model and uses strategic alliances with established academic and health development institutions including Yale School of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Pretoria, JHPIEGO (John Hopkins USA) and where appropriate, FPD also works closely with professional associations and special interest groups.
Pretoria, South Africa
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Fundación del Empresariado Chihuahuense, A.C.
FECHAC is a fund established by business owners with the support of the Mexican government and the State Congress of Chihuahua to benefit those most need in Chihuahua. FECHAC is an independent, non-partisan, private non-profit organization. FECHAC's main endeavors are education, health and well-being, sustainability, and development of social responsibility. Over the last ten years, it has invested over US $51 million in some 1,700 activities and programs throughout the state of Chihuahua, such as building, rebuilding and refurbishing healthcare institutions and schools, providing care for the elderly, and training for micro-enterprise owners. Its annual income is currently around $8 million. It has an endowment of some $4.5 million, which it is working to increase.
Chihuahua, Mexico
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Fundacíon Exito (The Success Foundation)
The Fundacíon Exito (The Success Foundation) is the philanthropic arm of the Columbian grocery store chain, Alamacenes Exito, S.A. The program has a focus on nutrition for babies, children, and pregnant and lactating mothers. The Success Foundation does not execute the programs it supports; its role is essentially to create partnerships with nonprofit organizations and public agencies with the skills, strengths, and resources to advance programs and projects for child nutrition. In 2007, in a joint effort with 756 social institutions in 126 municipalities in Colombia the success foundation invested $ 11,099 million. These resources enabled The Success Foundation to benefit 199,821 children, 39,793 youths and 1,365 pregnant and lactating mothers.
Cundinamarca, Colombia
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Fundacion Huesped
Since 1989, Fundacion Huesped has been on the frontlines in the fight against HIV/AIDS in Argentina. Fundacion Huesped believes HIV/AIDS is not simply an infectious pandemic but a pervasive social challenge, the nature of which requires community-wide support for those living with the disease. Fundacion Huesped goals are to increase access to prevention information and education in order raise public awareness; to facilitate research opportunities for health professionals; to improve infrastructure for greater availability of social services, and provide protection from social or legislative stigma and discrimination. Fundacion Huesped envisions a society in which HIV/AIDS is not a leading cause of discrimination, illness, and death. Fundacion Huesped aspires towards a society where all people share equal access to information, prevention, and treatment.
Buenos Aires, Argentina
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Fundación Mexicana para la Planeación Familiar, A.C. (MEXFAM)
MEXFAM is a nonprofit partnership, governed by volunteers and headed by a select group of professionals that, for over 40 years, has been actively involved in family planning programs throughout Mexico. Together as volunteers and staff, MEXFAM works together towards gender equality, freedom and responsibility in decisions about sexuality and reproduction. MEXFAM aims to help its youth develop in an environment free of social prejudice to have access to quality information and services, to freely exercise their rights and responsibilities, to inhabit a world free of sexually transmitted infections, including HIV/AIDS and to continue to prevent mother's death from complications of pregnancy, childbirth or abortions performed in unsafe conditions. Finally, MEXFAM strives to prevent the deaths of women from cervical and breast cancers.
Mexico City, Mexico
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Fundamental Human Rights & Rural Development Association (FHRRDA)
FHRRDA runs a comprehensive community health program for mother and children throughout villages in the Union Ahmed Rajo District Badin sindh, India. The program includes traditional Birth Attendants (Dai) and Community Organizers staffed at each village, a Public Health supervisor and Nutritionist-cum-Health Educator and a supervisory technical staff providing support to field staff. The focus of the program is on health service family planning, mother and child health, immunization, low-cost nutrition and food preparation, and oral rehydration.
Mexico City, Mexico
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Gonoshasthaya Kendra (People's Health Care Center)
The Gonoshasthaya Kendra (GK) was founded at end of the Bangladeshi indpenedence war from Pakistan in 1972 with the assistance of 22 volunteers and doctors. They resided in tents at Bishmail, Savar working to provide better health care services, particularly for women and children. Today, Gonoshasthaya Kendra has continued to develop a program primarily focused on people-oriented health care service delivery, integrating programs in women's development, education, agriculture extension, poverty alleviation, and conservation of the environment in each of its operational areas. Gonoshasthaya Kendra has established 10 health clinics throughout Bangladesh.
Dhaka, Bangladesh
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GHESKIO: Groupe Haitien d'Étude du Sarcome de Kaposi et des Infections Opportunistes
The Haitian Study Group on Kaposi's Sarcoma and Opportunistic Infections is the first research group on human immunodeficiency virus infections (HIV) formed after the Centers for Disease Control in recognized AIDS in 1982. GHESKIO was founded by thirteen Haitian health professionals and through its services and research activities, has emerged as a national and international leader in the fight against diarrheal and mycobacterial diseases as well as AIDS and prevention of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). From its inception, GHESKIO has been a model of integration and in cooperation with the private, public, national, international, university, and humanitarian sectors. Much of what is known about clinical presentation, epidemiology, and transmission of AIDS in Haiti comes from studies carried out by GHESKIO.
Port-au-Prince, Haiti
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Handicap International
Handicap International is an international organization specializing in the field of disability. Non-governmental, non-religious, non-political and non-profit making, it works alongside people with disabilities, whatever the context, offering them assistance and supporting them in their efforts to become self-reliant. Since its creation, the organization has set up programs in approximately 60 countries and intervened in many emergency situations. It has a network of eight national associations (Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Luxembourg, Switzerland, United Kingdom, and the USA), which provide human and financial resources, manage projects and raise awareness of Handicap International's actions and campaigns.
Lyon, France
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Health All Development International (HADI) Foundation
The Health All Development International (HADI) Mission is an international extension of the HADI Foundation, Inc. (HADI-F), which is a humanitarian, non-profit, non-governmental organization registered in the Philippines. Its purpose is to permanently stop the violence and destruction of living conditions, to quickly reduce the suffering of the communities, and to adequately and sustainably improve the wellbeing of the peoples.
Makati City, Philippines
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Heartbeat International
Heartbeat International is about life. Each year more than one million people die or live a compromised life because they cannot afford a cardiac pacemaker. Heartbeat International provides these devices through approved distribution centers referred to as Pacemaker Banks. Heartbeat International also provides state-of-the-art educational programs to participating volunteer physicians, assuring competence with rapidly evolving pacemaker and defibrillator technology and clinical indications. Pacemaker Banks also provide free follow-up care to carefully monitor the pacemaker or defibrillator performance, make adjustments as needed, and recommend replacement as the battery nears depletion. More importantly, Heartbeat International looks upon its pacemakers as peacemakers. By uniting physicians and their patients in a common crusade against heart disease, goodwill, friendships and understanding are fostered; thereby making the world a more peaceful place.
Tampa, Florida, USA
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Helen Keller International
Founded in 1915, Helen Keller International (HKI) is among the oldest international nonprofit organizations devoted to fighting and treating preventable blindness and malnutrition. HKI is headquartered in New York City, and has programs in 22 countries in Africa and Asia as well as in the United States. HKI builds local capacity by establishing sustainable programs, and provides scientific and technical assistance and data to governments and international, regional, national and local organizations around the world. HKI works shoulder-to-shoulder with the medical community and with governmental and non-governmental agencies around the globe, towards its mission to help save the sight and lives of the most vulnerable and disadvantaged. HKI programs combat malnutrition, cataract, trachoma, onchocerciasis (river blindness) and refractive error. The goal of all HKI programs is to reduce suffering of those without access to needed health or vision care and ultimately, to help lift people from poverty.
New York, New York, USA
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Instituto Austral de Salud Mental
The Austral Institute of Mental Health is a health care institution dedicated to the treatment of severe mental health problems. Its focus is on the implementation of appropriate treatments within each strategic part of a patient's disorder: psychopharmacological, psychotherapy, psychosocial. The Austral Institute has gained recognition over its fifteen year history to be an extremely innovative and effective program for the delivery of mental health care in a relatively remote and underserved area, servicing as a training center for primary care physicians, among other professionals, who deliver care in the remote regions of the Province. The Austral Institute is also embarking on the development of similar services for children.
Neuquén, Aregntina
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International Aid Network (IAN)
IAN is a local non governmental organization established in 1997, during the war in the former Yugoslavia. The long term consequences on mental health has been severe, especially of refugees and internally displaced people who were under great stress after decades of civil wars. IAN has undertaken activities including protection and promotion of mental health of those people through establishing a Trauma centre, free of charge for psychological support. As an organization IAN has established a comprehensive approach to helping those in need. IAN first established a centre for comprehensive approach (medical, psychological, legal and psychiatric help) to victims of torture, especially war torture. The IAN Centre for Rehabilitation of Torture Victims (CRTV) opened its doors in September 2000. At the present moment, the merged services of the Trauma Centre and CRTV receive approximately 800 clients per year. As an organization that strives to improve the quality of people's lives in society, in 2003 IAN started a program to combat HIV and AIDS. Jointly with government institutions and international agencies, IAN has developed the first Voluntary Counseling and Testing centre in Serbia and began advocating for the spread of the VCT model throughout the whole country.
Belgrade, Serbia
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International Eye Foundation
Since its founding in 1961, the International Eye Foundation's (IEF) mission has been to prevent blindness and restore vision in the developing world. Over four decades, the IEF has helped millions of people in more than 60 developing nations. Worldwide, 161 million people are affected by blindness and preventable eye disease. Some 1.4 million of these people are under the age of 15. In the new millennium, the IEF is forging ahead with new goals and aims, such as improved staffing and administrative support in eye hospitals and clinics in the developing world. IEF is also on the frontlines fighting major causes of sight loss, including vitamin A deficiency, trachoma, and "river blindness," many of which attack young children.
Kensington, Maryland, USA
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International Medical Corps
International Medical Corps is a global, humanitarian, nonprofit organization dedicated to saving lives and relieving suffering through health care training, and relief and development programs. Established in 1984 by volunteer doctors and nurses, IMC is a private, voluntary, nonpolitical, nonsectarian organization. Its mission is to improve the quality of life through health interventions and related activities that build local capacity in underserved communities worldwide. By offering training and health care to local populations and medical assistance to people at highest risk, and with the flexibility to respond rapidly to emergency situations, IMC rehabilitates devastated health care systems and helps bring them back to self-reliance.
Santa Monica, CA
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International Planned Parenthood Federation
The International Planned Parenthood Federation is a global service provider and a leading advocate of sexual and reproductive health and rights for all. The IPPF has six regional offices in Kenya, Tunisia, Belgium, India, Malaysia and the United States. As a global network of Member Associations, the IPPF works in around 180 countries- providing and campaigning for sexual and reproductive health care and rights. Approximately 32 million visits a year are made to over 58,000 IPPF facilities worldwide. The services its facilities provide for these users include counseling, gynecological care, HIV-related services, diagnosis and treatment of sexually transmitted infections, infertility services, mother and child health, emergency contraception and abortion-related services. The IPPF works in partnership with like-minded organizations, galvanizing support to confront those who want to take away these rights.
London, United Kingdom
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International Women's Health Coalition
For 23 years, the International Women's Health Coalition (IWHC) has uniquely positioned itself to bridge global movements for women's and young people's health and human rights, and governments and global institutions that control health policies and budgets. IWHC invests in women and youth leaders as they develop vision, skills, and organizations. With IWHC's professional assistance and financial support, local organizations in Africa, Asia, and Latin America make their communities and countries safer and healthier for women of all ages, empowering them to advocate for themselves. IWHC partners with these leaders to build consensus among multiple stakeholders and constituencies, documenting and exposing where current policies are off track, where women and girls are missing, and where the solutions are. IWHC advocates with governments and influential institutions-the United Nations Population Fund, the World Health Organization (WHO), the World Bank, UNAIDS, and other international agencies-to generate essential policies and resource flows that directly benefit women and their families. Today, IWHC supports work in Argentina, Bangladesh, Brazil, Cameroun, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Nigeria, Pakistan, Peru, Sri Lanka, Turkey, and Uruguay, as well as regional networks in Asia, Africa, Latin America, the Middle East, and Eastern and Central Europe.
New York, NY, USA
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Interplast
Since 1969, Interplast has provided free life-changing surgery for children and adults with clefts, disabling burns and hand injuries. In Africa, Asia and Latin America, Interplast empowers and trains local doctors - and creates free access to surgical care where none previously existed. Children with congenital deformities, like cleft lips or palates, are often ostracized from their communities and denied an education simply because they look or speak differently. Accident victims, many burn-related, also endure a lifetime of suffering and disability for the simple reason that they have no access to the surgeries that would give them back the use of their hands or the freedom to move their limbs or improve their physical appearance. The sad and startling fact is that only three percent of disabled children in the developing world attend school. Interplast's programs provide corrective surgery and related care for the world's poor. By doing so Interplast not only heals bodies, it helps children gain access to the most basic of needs such as attending school and gaining a livelihood.
Mountain View, CA, USA
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Jamkhed Comprehensive Rural Health Project (CRHP)
The Comprehensive Rural Health Project, in Jamkhed, India has been working among the rural poor and marginalized for over 37 years. By partnering with village communities and expanding upon local knowledge and resources, the project aims to effectively meet the immediate and long-term needs of these groups, especially women. With values of compassion, justice, respect and trust, CRHP works to empower people, families and communities, regardless of caste, race or religion, through integrated efforts in health and development.
Jamkhed, India
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Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health is dedicated to the education of a diverse group of research scientists and public health professionals, a process inseparably linked to the discovery and application of new knowledge, and through these activities, to the improvement of health and prevention of disease and disability around the world. Founded in 1916 by William H. Welch and John D. Rockefeller, the JHSPH has approximately 2,000 students from over 84 nations world-wide. It is the first institution of its kind and the largest school of public health in the world. As a leading international authority on public health, the HJSPH is dedicated to protecting health and saving lives. Every day, the School works to keep millions around the world safe from illness and injury by pioneering new research, deploying its knowledge and expertise in the field and educating tomorrow's scientists and practitioners in the global defense of human life.
Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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Kimara Peer Educators and Health Promoters Trust
Kimara Peer Educators implement an integrated program of prevention, care, support and referrals at the grassroots level. The core activities of the organization has a track record in the area of preventive education using non-formal education modules that are based on peer-to-peer learning, a model that entails training of peer trainers, information giving/dissemination with a focus on HIV, AIDS, STDs, stigma & discrimination and gender. It has also developed and distributed EC/BCC literature materials as a component within the model. Through its vision - a community that is knowledgeable and responsible in HIV and AIDS issues - Kimara aims to respond effectively to HIV /STDs.
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
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Layton Rahmatulla Benevolent Trust (LRBT)
LRBT is committed to creating a better Pakistan by preventing the suffering caused by blindness and other eye ailments. To this end, LRBT provides state of the art comprehensive free eye-care in keeping with its tradition of excellence, efficiency and compassion for all. In December 1984 the late Graham Layton and Zaka Rahmatulla' established the Layton Rahmatulla Benevolent Trust. This was used to build and run a mobile eye hospital in Tando Bago a small town 250 kilometers east of Karachi. They envisioned an organization which would grow to provide free eye treatment to the poor and underprivileged citizens across Pakistan so that no Pakistani would go blind just because one could not afford the treatment. 22 years later the vision of Graham Layton & Zaka Rahmatulla is a reality and their legacy is a nationwide network of 15 hospitals with state of the art equipment and 36 primary eye-care centers and outreach clinics in all four provinces.
Karachi, Pakistan
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Le Kinkeliba
Le Kinkeliba provides professional health care and education to a very vulnerable population in a region where the effects of malaria, tuberculosis, cholera, HIV/AIDS and other diseases have devastated communities because of a lack of access to modern medical resources. Le Kinkeliba also promotes mutual health insurance in all of the communities it serves and actively engages in the creation and operation of schools for young children. In addition, Le Kinkeliba is dedicated to building a medical and educational infrastructure, working to improve public health practices, and encouraging the development of farms to benefit the local economy.
Paris, France
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Life Safety Alliance Initiative
The Life Safety Alliance Initiative works with those infected with HIV/AIDS in Nigeria to provide a better standard of living.
Inisa, Nigeria
The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine is Britain's national school of public health and a leading postgraduate institution in Europe for public health and tropical medicine. Part of the University of London, the London School is an internationally recognized center of excellence in public health, international health and tropical medicine with a remarkable depth and breadth of expertise. It is one of the highest-rated research institutions in the UK. They collaborate in research with over 115 countries throughout the world, utilizing their critical mass of multidisciplinary expertise which includes clinicians, epidemiologists, statisticians, social scientists, molecular biologists and immunologists.
London, United Kingdom
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Macro International
Macro International delivers research-based solutions to complex problems. Macro International helps governments and businesses increase their impact on the world-enhancing performance and improving lives. Macro International, Inc. is headquartered in the Washington, DC area and maintains offices across the United States. It has conducted projects for private and public sector clients in more than 125 countries. Macro's mission is to deliver high-quality, research-based solutions to complex problems, integrating objective information with the advisory and implementation tasks needed to improve real world performance. This goal has shaped the firm's history since its founding in 1966. In its pursuit, Macro International has nurtured core competencies in research and evaluation, management consulting, marketing and communications, and information technology.
Calverton, MD, USA
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Malaria Research and Training Center
The Malaria Research and Training Center (MRTC) was initiated in 1989 as part of a collaborative effort between the staff of the Faculty of Medicine, Pharmacy and Odonto-stomatology (FMPOS) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) USA with support from the partnership program of the Rockefeller Foundation and the WHO. The MRTC is involved in all aspects of research on malaria. All work at the MRTC is directed at the development and testing of appropriate strategies for the eventual control of malaria and the reduction of the burden of disease in the people of Mali, the region, and all of Africa. The MRTC program is based on the clear understanding that not enough is known today to control malaria in Africa, and most current programs are failing because of a lack of adequate tools and techniques. The MRTC seeks to bring to bear the best available methodologies and cutting edge technologies for understanding and attacking this difficult problem.
Bamako, Mali
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Mano a Mano International Partners
Mano a Mano (Hand to Hand) works to create partnerships with impoverished Bolivian communities to improve health and increase economic well-being. Mano a Mano began when Segundo Velasquez annually transported small medical donations to his native Bolivia. His contacts with Minnesota hospitals and clinics made it clear that many of them stored and then ultimately discarded usable supplies, instruments and equipment because they could not afford to pay staff to sort it for use or resale. Over the years other interested persons began to assist in this effort to redistribute medical surplus. In October 1994, that group of volunteers incorporated Mano a Mano as a non-profit organization and dramatically increased the scope of its activity. The organization's accomplishments have since grown to include building an infrastructure for health care, education and economic development in Bolivia that is constructed, supported, and ultimately run by Bolivians. Mano a Mano operates through a uniquely effective, largely volunteer network. Its administrative and fundraising costs remain at less than 5 percent.
Mendota Heights, Minnesota, USA
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MAP (Medical Assistance Programs) International
A Christian organization working to save lives, MAP maintains an affirmed commitment to diversity and equal opportunity in the fulfillment of its global mission. Founded in 1954 as the Medical Assistance Programs, today MAP International, a top 100 non-profit, promotes the total health - physical, economic, social, emotional and spiritual health - of impoverished people in over 115 countries through provision of essential medicines, promotion of community health development and prevention and mitigation of disease, disaster and other health threats. MAP offers its services to all people, regardless of their religion, gender, race, nationality or ethnic background. MAP's international programs help eliminate the causes of sickness and disease by providing free medicines, improving water supplies and knowledge about health threats like HIV/AIDS and establishing community directed health education and training. To maximize the number of lives it reaches, MAP International works in partnership programs with over 300 organizations, agencies and medical missions around the world.
Brunswick, Georgia, USA
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Medical Knowledge Institute Netherlands
The goal of the Medical Knowledge Institute (MKI) is to offer a platform for the delivery of and easy access to high quality healthcare education and information while supporting the development and humanitarian goals of healthcare programs in developing and transitional countries. MKI also serves as the hub of the MKI Global Network, a group of autonomous foundations and organizations around the world, implementing a range of initiatives which aim to promote and improve the quality of healthcare as a human right. MKI is based in the Netherlands, and founded by Dr. Harold E. Robles, Founder and President Emeritus of the Albert Schweitzer Institute for the Humanities, and Dr. Peter J. Bittel, Chairman and CEO of The Futures Health Group. MKI depends on funds raised from governments, business corporations, foundations and individuals.
Oostvoome, the Netherlands
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Mercy Ships
Mercy Ships is a global charity that has operated hospital ships in developing nations since 1978. Mercy Ships brings hope and healing to the forgotten poor by mobilizing people and resources worldwide, and serving all people without regard for race, gender, or religion. Its crew of both professional medical and non-medical volunteers has chosen a very powerful way to share their blessings. Mercy Ships follows the 2,000 year-old model of Jesus: the blind see; the lame walk; the mute speak; and the Good News (the nature and character of a loving God) is proclaimed and demonstrated among the poor. Mercy Ships welcomes individuals that seek to engage in their mission of hope either by volunteering with their crew or in the sharing of personal relationships and resources.
Garden Valley, Texas, USA
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Middle East Cancer Consortium
The objective of the Middle East Cancer Consortium (MECC) is to reduce the incidence and impact of cancer in the Middle East through the solicitation and support of collaborative research. Since its inception, MECC's major activities have been the Cancer Registry Project (CRP) and the Small Grants Program. The CRP aims to support population-based cancer registries within MECC members and develop linkages among them. The Small Grants Program enables clinicians and scientists within MECC signatories to submit research proposals for funding. All proposals are peer-reviewed for their scientific merit and must involve collaboration between more than one participating MECC member. The MECC was established through an official agreement of the Ministries of Health of Cyprus, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, and the Palestinian Authority. The agreement was signed in Geneva in May 1996. Turkey officially joined the Consortium in June 2004.
Haifa, Israel
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One H.E.A.R.T. (Health, Education and Research in Tibet)
The Mission of One H.E.A.R.T. is to save the lives of Tibetan women and children, one birth at a time. One H.E.A.R.T. is a nonprofit organization, established in 1998 under the umbrella of the University of Utah Health Sciences Center, after Maternal-Fetal Medicine division members returned from a visit to the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) of the People's Republic of China (PRC). This visit sought to address the very high maternal and infant morbidity and mortality rates and took place at the invitation of the Lhasa City Municipal Hospital and the TAR Health Department. One H.E.A.R.T. began with the Skilled Birth Attendant (SBA) program after finding that Tibet had little tradition of skilled birth attendants. One H.E.A.R.T. began developing the PAVOT program, or Pregnancy and Village Outreach in Tibet, to pass safe birthing messages to rural areas. Today, One H.E.A.R.T. continues to save lives with the original models of SBA and PAVOT, as well as a Physician Training Program (PTP). The PTP trains local physicians on emergency OB/GYN practices like cesarean deliveries, newborn resuscitation, and birth defects. One H.E.A.R.T. is also building the first International Center for Maternal and Child Health and will renew its contract with the PRC in 2009. One H.E.A.R.T. will also expand its life-saving programs into three additional counties of the Lhasa Prefecture: Daktse, Nyimo, and Damshung.
Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
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One World Trust
The One World Trust is an independent think tank that conducts research, develops recommendations and advocates for reform to make policy and decision-making processes in global governance more accountable to the people they affect now and in the future, and to ensure that international laws are strengthened and applied equally to all. The One World Trust promotes education and research into the changes required within global organizations in order to achieve the eradication of poverty, injustice and war. It conducts research on practical ways to make global organizations more responsive to the people they affect, and on how the rule of law can be applied equally to all. It educates political leaders and opinion-formers about the findings of its research. Its guiding vision is a world where all peoples live in peace and security and have equal access to opportunity and participation. The Trust focuses its work on three international issues: accountability, peace and security, and sustainable development.
London, United Kingdom
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ONG Bethesda
The ONG Bethesda is the first multi-denominational hospital and health center in Benin. The hospital has 73 in-patient beds including 22 beds for internal medicine, 20 beds for the maternity ward, 6 beds for the surgical wing, 4 beds for ophthalmology, 17 beds in the pediatric unit and 4 additional beds for overflow. The department of Community Development and Economic Stabilization works to promote preventative health care and sustainable development against poverty. The ONG Bethesda is the first African NGO to receive the Japanese Award for the Most Innovative Development in 2006.
Cotonou, Benin
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ORBIS International
ORBIS International, a nonprofit humanitarian organization, strives to eliminate avoidable blindness and restore sight in developing countries. ORBIS has permanent offices dedicated to preventing blindness in Africa, blindness in China, blindness in India, blindness in Bangladesh and blindness in Vietnam. ORBIS also conducts regional work on blindness prevention in Latin America and the Caribbean. ORBIS sponsors short-term, hospital-based projects in developing countries around the world and delivers ophthalmic training and patient care through its one-of-a-kind Flying Eye Hospital. ORBIS operates the world's only Flying Eye Hospital, a DC-10 wide-body aircraft converted into an innovative teaching facility and ophthalmic surgical center. By bringing specialized training programs in both adult and pediatric ophthalmology directly to eye doctors and nurses in developing countries, the ORBIS Flying Eye Hospital offers a unique solution to the difficulties medical professionals in these countries encounter in securing tuition, airfare and accommodations for overseas ophthalmic training.
New York, New York, USA
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Organization for International Development
The organization is dedicated to delivering high-quality free healthcare and social services to needy people in underserved communities locally and internationally (inclusive of the Caribbean, Africa and India) as a means to improve their physical, mental and social well-being. The group consists of professionals in the field of healthcare (doctors, nurses, dentists, medical students and emergency care personnel), education, engineering, computer science and technology whose tireless efforts make their annual one-week health missions possible. They provide free services in, among other things, dental care, medical treatment, nursing care, physical therapy education and health education. Their health education workshops cover topics such as teenage pregnancy, healthy lifestyle options and nutritional wellness. They also provide computer science, electrical engineering and technology information as well as hold science fairs at host schools.
Bronx, New York, USA
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OSSA, Organization for Social Services for AIDS
OSSA provides HIV/AIDS prevention care and support. It also works in Kala Azar endemic areas and rehabilitates those in need, especially in Kafta Humera Woreda of Tigray in Ethiopia. Both areas of its work are in areas that are in dire need and hard to reach.
Mekelle, Ethiopia
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Palestinian Medical Relief Society (PMRS)
PMRS seeks to improve the overall physical, mental, and social well being of all Palestinians, regardless of racial, political, social, economic status, religion or gender. Their quality health services focus on the needs of the most vulnerable members of Palestinian society: women, children, disabled and the poor in rural villages, refugee camps, and urban centers. PMRS works for the attainment of physical, mental and social well being of Palestinians. Health is viewed as an entry point for social change and community development. PMRS works to support the building of a viable Palestinian civil society that contributes to the achievement of national goals based on social equity, democracy, respect for human rights, and a society that is free from discrimination and aggression of any form.
Ramallah, Palestine
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Partners In Health
Partners In Health coordinates innovative programs to combat AIDS and women's health problems in rural Haiti and urban Massachusetts, groundbreaking tuberculosis treatment projects in the prisons of Siberia and the shantytowns of Lima, and health policy initiatives on a global scale. At its root, though, its mission is both medical and moral. It is based on solidarity, rather than charity alone. When a person in Peru, or Siberia, or rural Haiti falls ill, PIH uses all of the means at its disposal to make them well - from pressuring drug manufacturers, to lobbying policy-makers, to providing medical care and social services: whatever it takes. Just as they would do if a member of their own families - or they themselves - were ill.
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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PATH (Program for Appropriate Technology in Health)
The mission of PATH is to improve the health of people around the world by advancing technologies, strengthening systems, and encouraging healthy behaviors. PATH's work improves global health and well-being. Some achievements include nearly a half-million individuals at high risk for HIV received one-on-one information and counseling from 4,300 trained community workers in the Philippines, where the infection rate for the general population remains below one percent and thousands of girls in Kenya have participated in a PATH-sponsored rite-of-passage program that provides an alternative to female genital cutting.
Seattle, Washington, USA
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Population Media Center
Population Media Center works worldwide using entertainment-education for social change. PCM's programs encourage positive behavior change among the audience. PMC works worldwide from its headquarters in Shelburne, Vermont. It has representatives in California and Oregon, as well as overseas offices in Brazil, Ethiopia, India, Jamaica, Kenya, Malawi, Mali, Mexico, Niger, Nigeria, the Philippines, Rwanda, Saint Lucia, Senegal and Sudan. PCM employs a Whole Society Strategy and sophisticated audience research methods; uses a multiplicity of media to target the message exactly to local and regional audiences; focuses its efforts in countries and regions with the highest need; supports local producers and writers to create indigenous programs and works with national and local broadcasters to air locally-produced programs. Population Media Center was founded in 1998 by William Ryerson, with the intention of using the extensive experience of experts in entertainment-education to spread the application of the Sabido methodology in addressing population and reproductive health issues. In the ten years since PMC's inception, the organization has been a pioneer in the use of new methodologies for informing people about reproductive health issues and promoting behavior change.
Shelburne, Vermont, USA
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Project HOPE
With the mission of achieving sustainable advances in healthcare around the world by implementing health education programs and providing humanitarian assistance in areas of need, Project HOPE works to make healthcare available for people around the globe- especially children. Project Hope's work includes educating health professionals and volunteers, providing medicines and supplies, strengthening health facilities, training community health workers, and fighting communicable diseases such as TB and AIDS.
Millwood, Virginia, USA
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Projecto Victoria
Projecto Victoria gives poor, young Honduran men who have addictions to drugs or alcoholism, or are involved in violent/outlaw gangs, a second chance to rebuild their lives. Projecto Victoria has established an innovative program within a therapeutic community of a rehabilitation center that addresses every aspect of its patients' well-being, from treatment to training to the release to a productive life. The program is unique in its integration of a chemical decontamination clinic; a permanent and constant system of qualification and training courses; recreational equipment and a gymnasium; involvement of the family in the process of rehabilitation through playful activities; constant guidance in matters of health, peace, and coexistence, and education in values; and the opportunity for continuity of studies through methods like distance learning, including education by radio.
Tegucigalpla, Honduras
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Rakai Health Sciences Program (RHSP), Uganda
When scientists at Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda hatched the idea of conducting an investigation into the then-mysterious "slim disease" in Rakai district, little did they know that their work would grow into the Rakai Health Sciences Program (RHSP). Nelson Sewankambo, MBChB, MMed, David Serwadda, MBChB, MSc, MMed, MPH, and Maria Wawer, MD, MSc, senior principal investigators of the Program, first met in 1987 when they initiated a small community cohort study. They worked from a tiny rented room at the Milano South-View Inn in Kyotera, Uganda. As Ronald Gray, MD, MSc, Tom Lutalo, MSc, and Fred Wabwire-Mangen, MBChB, MPH, PhD, joined the team of senior investigators, the Program moved into a few rented rooms in a local tin-roofed shop in Kalisizo and initiated a number of much larger community prevention trials and studies. Today, the Program staff includes just under 400 highly dedicated and energetic principal investigators, multidisciplinary professionals, and support staff who conduct a wide range of reproductive health research and service activities. With a newly-built facility in Kalisizo, Rakai District, the principal investigators and staff have the resources they need to conduct cutting-edge research.
Kampala, Uganda
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Riverside General Hospital
Riverside General Hospital was established in 1924 to provide medical care to the community. Riverside General Hospital has extensive experience in providing Level I (Medical Detoxification), Level II, (Residential) and Level III (Outpatient) substance abuse treatment programs for adults, adolescents and women with their children. Clients are introduced to models of recovery and are involved in 12-Step Support Groups. Beginning in 1972, Riverside was a pioneer in treating chemical dependency as a medical component addressing both addiction and mental health disorders. The mission of Riverside General Hospital is to provide an environment which promotes excellence in patient care in which physicians, with the support of other well trained health care personnel and specialized equipment, can deliver superior medical care.
Houston, Texas
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Society for Education, Action, and Research in Community Health (SEARCH)
The mission of SEARCH is to work with marginalized communities to identify their health needs, develop community empowering models of health care to meet these health needs, to test these models by way of research studies, and then to make this knowledge available to others by way of training and publications. In search of health care for rural and tribal people they identify the unattended health problems of the populations by living among them, listening to them, and conducting epidemiological studies and provide community-based health care by developing the human potential in the villages. SEARCH also designs new ways of health care delivery for the unattended priority problems and conduct population-based research trials of these interventions and influences national and global health policies based on the new knowledge and solutions developed in the laboratory of 100 villages in Gadchiroli District.
Gadchiroli,India
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Self Employed Women's Association (SEWA)
SEWA is a trade union first registered in 1972. It is an organization of poor, self-employed women workers. These are women who earn a living through their own labor or small businesses. SEWA's main goals are to organize women workers for full-time employment. Full time-employment means employment whereby workers obtain work security, income security, food security and social security (at least health care, child care and shelter). SEWA organizes women to ensure that every family obtains full-time employment. By self-reliance, women should be autonomous and self-reliant, individually and collectively, both economically and in terms of their decision-making ability.
Ahmedabad, India
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Serve Train Educate People's Society (STEPS)
Serve Train Educate People's Society (STEPS) was established in 1993 as a non-profit, non-governmental, voluntary organization at Srikalahasti a famous Pilgrim town in Chittoor District, Andhra Pradesh state, India. STEPS supports preventive and curative health related programs with a special focus on children, adolescent girls and boys, and women. STEPS also works to strengthen and expand HIV/AIDS & malaria clinical awareness and advocacy services, integrated child health and education to the needy. STEPS creates organizations of women and promotes grass root level initiation for their empowerment. STEPS aims to safe guard human rights in the form of equal rights for children, women, and adolescents along with the right to live with dignity and universal right of common resources.
Srikalahasti, India
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Shangilia Mtoto Wa Africa- Rejoice, Child of Africa!
Founded and registered in 1994, Shangilia has proven the performing arts to be a unique means to change the attitudes and practices of 220 street children. Twenty-three children gave their first public performance before an audience in Nairobi's National Theatre on July 12, 1994. Shangilia's children went on to perform in schools and churches all over Kenya under the tutelage of the late actress Anne Wanjugu. Shangilia has since taken its show to Germany, Thailand, China, Zanzibar, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Mayote, and Greece. The show is designed to expose and sensitize society to the rising predicament of those young lives lost on the street, sniffing glue, picking pockets and exposed to prostitution. Besides raising funds for a children's fund, the performances have proved that the performing arts are effective to both rehabilitate the children's self-confidence and worth, as well as demonstrate the potential of all children.
Nairobi, Kenya
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Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital & Research Centre
Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital and Research Centre (SKMCH & RC) is a state-of-the-art cancer centre located in Lahore, Pakistan. It is a project of the Shaukat Khanum Memorial Trust, which is a charitable organization established under the Societies Registration Act of Pakistan. The institution is the brainchild of Pakistani cricket superstar, Imran Khan. The inspiration came after the death of his mother, Mrs. Shaukat Khanum, from cancer. SKMCH & RC acts as a model institution to alleviate the suffering of patients with cancer through the application of modern methods of curative and palliative therapy irrespective of their ability to pay.
Lahore, Pakistan
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Sri Venkateswara Institute of Medical Sciences (SVIMS)
The Sri Venkateswara Institute of Medical Sciences (SVIMS), set up by TTD, is a sophisticated, super-specialty centre, which provides the most advanced medical technology to the needy. Apart from offering services, training and education in medical sciences, it also encourages research and development. To bring state-of-the-art medical services to the poor and needy, SVIMS has introduced the Balaji Arogyavaraprasadini Scheme.
Tirupati, India
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Stop TB Partnership
The Stop TB Partnership, called the Stop TB Initiative at the time of its inception, was established in 1998. It aims to realize the goal of eliminating TB as a public health problem and, ultimately, to obtain a world free of TB. It comprises a network of international organizations, countries, donors from the public and private sectors, governmental and nongovernmental organizations and individuals that have expressed an interest in working together to achieve this goal. From humble beginnings, the original Stop TB Initiative has evolved into a broad Global Partnership to Stop TB. The Partnership involves all those organizations and individuals committed to short- and long-term measures required to control and eventually eliminate TB as a global public health problem. Partners have coalesced into Working Groups to accelerate progress in seven specific areas: DOTS Expansion, TB/HIV, MDR-TB, New TB Drugs, New TB Vaccines, New TB Diagnostics, and Advocacy, Communications and Social Mobilization. These mechanisms have enabled the Global Partnership to Stop TB to expand, carry forward work plans, and support countries in their efforts to accelerate action against TB, as called for in the Amsterdam Declaration to Stop TB.
Geneva, Switzerland
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Sulabh International Social Service Organisation
Sulabh International Social Service Organisation aims to bring about environmental improvement by implementing an eco-friendly technology, upgradating improvement of health and hygiene, establishing sanitation facilities, lending dignity to women, producing human waste based fertilizer and effecting economy in use of water. Sulabh International Social Service Organisation, founded by Dr Bindeshwar Pathak, an Action Sociologist and a Social Reformer, has played a defining role in changing the mindset of the people of India towards sanitation.
New Delhi, India
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Surgical Eye Expeditions (SEE) International
Surgical Eye Expeditions (SEE) International, Inc. is a non-profit humanitarian organization that provides medical, surgical and educational services by volunteer ophthalmic surgeons with the primary objective of restoring sight to disadvantaged blind individuals worldwide. At the invitation of eye surgeons in developing countries and with the approval of local health and civic authorities, SEE International recruits, organizes and deploys numerous small surgical teams worldwide. Since being founded in 1974, SEE's eye surgeons have examined more than one-million patients and performed over a third of a million sight-restoring operations.
Goleta, California, USA
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Swinfen Charitable Trust
The Swinfen Charitable Trust was founded by Lord and Lady Swinfen in 1998 with the aim of assisting poor, sick and disabled people in the developing world. The Trust's policy is to establish telemedicine links between hospital-based practitioners in the developing world and expert medical and surgical specialists who generously give free advice via the Internet. Local doctors can send clinical photos, a patient's history and any other relevant material (such as X-rays) to the Trust. A secure web-based messaging system is used, which allows referring practitioners' access to a panel of nearly 400 specialists in a wide range of disciplines. The median length of time between receipt of original message and first reply by a specialist consultant is currently 1.8 days.
Canterbury, United Kingdom
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Tamakoshi Service Society
The integrated model of community development facilitated by TSS combines women's empowerment initiatives through savings and credits cooperatives with a wide range of other development activities from the provision of clinical services to the construction of domestic water supply systems. The model is innovative because much of the work is self-sustaining through the management of community funds, rather than constantly requiring a source of external funding, as is the dominant model for most development programs in the region. The model prioritizes learning processes which encourage communities to question their current social structures and the way they relate to each other and their environment in order to achieve their development goals. In doing so communities are able to identify changes they can make that improve their livelihoods while fostering equity and justice.
Kathmandu, Nepal
The AIDS Support Organization (TASO)
TASO exists to contribute to a process of restoring hope and improving the quality of life of persons, families and communities affected by HIV infection and disease. TASO is the largest indigenous non-governmental organization providing HIV/AIDS services in Uganda and Africa, having supported over 150,000 directly since its inception. The organization has eleven service centers throughout Uganda and thirteen "mini-TASOs" in other parts of the country. TASO has given 10,000 clients ARVs including 500 children since beginning Antiretroviral Therapy in June 2004.
Kampala, Uganda
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The Hunger Project
The Hunger Project is a global, non-profit, strategic organization committed to the sustainable end of world hunger. In Africa, Asia and Latin America, The Hunger Project seeks to end hunger and poverty by empowering people to lead lives of self-reliance, meet their own basic needs and build better futures for their children. The Hunger Project carries out its mission through three essential activities: mobilizing village clusters at the grassroots level to build self-reliance, empowering women as key change agents, and forging effective partnerships with local government.
New York, New York, USA
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The Institute for Palliative Medicine at San Diego Hospice
San Diego Hospice helps people who are dying find comfort and relief from suffering, and has been a leader in this work since 1977. Today, San Diego Hospice is one of the 10 largest not-for-profit hospices in the nation. It has more palliative medicine specialists than any other hospice in the United States, and, with The Institute for Palliative Medicine it is the largest resource in the world for training palliative medicine physicians and other specialists. The San Diego hospice cares for almost 1,000 patients each day in their own homes or in other facilities throughout San Diego County.
San Diego, California, United States
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The Leon Eisenbud Dental Center at N.S. Long Island Jewish Medical Center
The North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the current and future generations of health care professionals; searching for new advances in medicine through the conduct of bio-medical research; promoting health education; and caring for the entire community regardless of the ability to pay.
New Hyde Park, NY, USA
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The Network: Towards Unity For Health
The Network: TUFH is a global association that includes institutions which offer training to health professions who wish to contribute to improving and maintaining health of the communities they serve through education, research and services. In order to improve health care services and training of health care professionals in the community, member institutions of Network: TUFH collaborate with their respective health care systems. Network members also explore innovative teaching methods, training in community settings and problem-solving to fulfill this mission. The Network focuses on educational research, research on priority health needs and efficiency of health services. To carry out these tasks, The Network invites the collaboration of many similar organizations.
Maastricht, the Netherlands
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Treatment Action Campaign
The Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) was founded on December 10, 1998 in Cape Town, South Africa. It campaigns for treatment for people with HIV and to reduce new HIV infections. TAC's efforts have resulted in many life-saving interventions, including the implementation of country-wide mother-to-child transmission prevention and antiretroviral treatment programs. The TAC also runs a treatment literacy campaign: a training program on the science of HIV treatment and prevention.
Cape Town, South Africa
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Un Kilo de Ayuda, A.C.
A Kilo of Help recognizes dignity, promotes self-sufficiency for those living in poverty, and promotes nutritional, health and educational programs to create physical, intellectual, economical and social equal opportunities. A Kilo of Help was founded as part of the efforts of New People, a nonprofit organization founded in 1982 working for the welfare of various communities in three areas: cultural, communication and social action.
Mexico City, Mexico
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United Methodist Committee on Relief-Armenia
UMCOR was formed by the United Methodist Church in 1940 to alleviate human suffering caused by World War II. In subsequent decades, it became UMCOR's mandate to assist people in need in situations resulting from natural or manmade disasters, addressing three fundamental areas: emergency response, hunger and poverty, and refugee concerns. UMCOR works in the United States and approximately 90 other countries. Nowadays UMCOR initiates programs geared towards development and capacity building, addressing the roots of hunger and poverty, and provides beneficiaries with the opportunity to become self-reliant. UMCOR is headquartered in New York City.
Yerevan, Armenia
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Women's Commission for Refugee Women and Children
Since 1989, the Women's Commission for Refugee Women and Children has focused the world's attention on the particular needs of refugee and internally displaced women, children and adolescents. The Women's Commission for Refugee Woman and Children's research and advocacy lead to life-changing improvements for this vulnerable, yet resilient, population. For 19 years, the WCRWC has identified cutting-edge issues and conducted critical on-the-ground research-investigating and proposing solutions to the seemingly intractable problems faced by women and children uprooted by war or other crises.
New York, New York, USA
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Women's Health Improvement Associations General Assembly
The Women's Health Improvement Associations General Assembly works to combat tuberculosis in Egypt and providing a package of socio-economic services for the poor affected families. The idea to establish an association to improve health was the result of a call made by the minister of health in 1936 for contributions to confront tuberculosis that had spread throughout Egypt at that time. Seven girls responded to this call by taking care of the families of the ill and isolating the children from sources of infection, in addition to raising awareness about tuberculosis and preventive measures. The General Assembly and its 27 branches have extended their activities beyond providing health care for the ill and their families to include activities related to the social, economic and cultural empowerment of women and children. This was implemented by institutions affiliated to the branches, which include nurseries, schools, training centers, technology clubs, shelter homes, health center and family planning centers.
Cairo, Egypt
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Y.R. Gaitonde Centre for AIDS Research & Education (YRG CARE)
Y.R. Gaitonde Centre for AIDS Research and Education (YRG CARE) is a non-profit organization based in Chennai, India. The activities of YRG CARE are organized around four core areas - Education, Care & Support, Research and Training. YRG CARE began its services in 1993. Over the years, it has gradually shaped and honed a comprehensive response to the HIV/AIDS challenge. Today its successful models of Prevention Programs, Laboratory Services and Care and Support programs have drawn international acclaim from UNICEF, WHO and the Red Cross.
Chennai, India
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