2010 Nominees List
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Background & Criteria
2010 Nominees List
Gates Award Winner
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The Gates Award for Global Health - 2010 Nominees |
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The following is a complete list of the qualified organizations nominated for the 2010 Gates Award for Global Health. The winner for 2010 has been selected and notified. The name of the winner is embargoed until late May.
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Advanced Life Support in Obstetrics (ALSO)
Advanced Life Support in Obstetrics (ALSO) is an emergency obstetrics course administered by the American Academy of Family Practice since 1993. ALSO helps physicians and other health care providers develop and maintain the skills and knowledge they need to effectively manage potential emergencies during the perinatal period. The course additionally serves as an aid for training residents in obstetrics and family medicine. Taught in over 50 countries, ALSO utilizes a practical, hands-on approach to teaching, using mnemonics and other creative learning tools to facilitate rapid incorporation and easy memorization.
Leawood, Kansas, USA
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Aga Khan Development Network
The Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN) focuses on culture, health, education, rural development, institution-building and the promotion of economic development without regard faith, origin or gender. AKDN brings together a number of development agencies, institutions, and programmes that work primarily in the poorest parts of Asia and Africa, all operating to improve social development. Their common goal is to help the poor achieve a level of self-reliance whereby they are able to plan their own livelihoods and help those even more needy than themselves.
The AKDN agencies make a long-term commitment to the areas in which they work, guided by the philosophy that a humane, sustainable environment must be guided by the people themselves. Sustainability is, thus, a central consideration from the outset.
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. Founded in 1966 by Professor Yusuf Bedri with 23 students, 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 responsible roles in their families, communities, and in the nation. In keeping with this objective, AUW embraces a combination of well articulated academic courses, on-the-job training, individual research, and community extension activities, a combination of activities designed to prepare Sudanese women to become agents of change in their families and communities and to assume leadership positions in society. Commitment to world class education and preparation for leadership positions for women in a non-political environment have remained the basic purposes of AUW. In keeping with its philosophy of preparing women for modern, leadership positions, campus-based instruction is in English.
Khartoum, Sudan
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AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF)
AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) is a global organization providing cutting-edge medicine and advocacy to over 100,000 people in 22 countries. AHF offers low-cost or free medicine and advocacy to more than 27,000 people in the United States, Africa, Central America and Asia. Domestically, AHF operates fourteen healthcare centers, seven pharmacies, a disease management program and the first capitated Medicaid managed care program for people with AIDS. Internationally, AHF Global brings lifesaving anti-retroviral therapy to developing and resource-poor countries including: South Africa, Uganda, Zambia, India, Swaziland, China and Ukraine. AHF Pharmacies, thrift stores, health care contracts and other strategic partnerships generate funding that provides medical and advocacy services to the thousands of people it serves. Generating and defining new, innovative treatment, prevention and advocacy programs are the hallmark of AHF’s success. AHF is currently working on a mass testing initiative to identify and treat the 25 million people who don’t know they are infected. It will take 1 billion tests annually, and AHF is advocating mass testing models in hopes of eliminating older, more time consuming methods. As AHF creates and implements its unparalleled programs in new communities in the U.S. and abroad, we expand its delivery of healthcare and influence over policy with the sole aim of saving more lives.
Los Ángeles, California, USA
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American Jewish World Service (AJWS)
American Jewish World Service (AJWS) is an international development organization motivated by Judaism’s imperative to pursue justice. AJWS is dedicated to alleviating poverty, hunger and disease among the people of the developing world regardless of race, religion or nationality. Through grants to grassroots organizations, volunteer service, advocacy and education, AJWS fosters civil society, sustainable development and human rights for all people while promoting the values and responsibilities of global citizenship within the Jewish community. AJWS supports more than 400 organizations in Africa, Asia and the Americas and gives priority to populations that are isolated from humanitarian aid and basic health services
New York, NY, USA
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Anthony Nolan Trust (ANT)
The Anthony Nolan Trust pairs leukemia patients with healthy cell donors that can assist the patient’s immune system with repair. A critical factor in the success of a transplant is the accuracy of the match between the patient’s cell tissue and the donor’s. Timing is also critical: once a patient has chosen to proceed with a transplant, the donor’s tissue – in the form of bone marrow or peripheral blood stem cells – must be available as soon as the conditioning treatment has finished. ANT’s donor recruitment and management teams organise recruitment clinics, and the Trust then does its best to recruit reliable and potential donors for both current and future assistance. ANT’s pioneering role has continually placed it at the forefront of developments in tissue transplantation and bone marrow register management, ensuring that it is doing everything possible to maximize the survival chances of anyone needing a bone marrow transplant.
London, United Kingdom
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Asia Pacific Academic Consortium for Public Health (APACPH)
Asia Pacific Academic Consortium for Public Health (APACPH) APACPH is an international non-profit organisation registered in Australia, comprising many of the largest and most influential schools of Public Health in the Asia-Pacific region and dedicated to improving professional education for public health. Launched in 1984 with just five members, APACPH now has over 55 members throughout the Asia-Pacific region with Regional Offices in Bangkok, Beijing, Brisbane, Hawaii and Tokyo. Through its activities, the members aim to tackle the unique public health challenges of the Asia-Pacific region. The Mission of the Consortium is to enhance Regional capacity to improve the quality of life and to address major public health challenges through the delivery of education, research and population health services by member institutions.
Honolulu, HI, USA
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Asian Liver Center of Stanford University (ALC)
The Asian Liver Center (ALC) at Stanford University is a U.S.-based, non-profit organization that addresses the high incidence of hepatitis B and liver cancer in Asians and Asian Americans. ALC uses a three-pronged approach towards fighting hepatitis B through outreach, education, advocacy, and research. By reducing stigma, ALC’s efforts have contributed to saving lives and increasing economic productivity among some of the world’s poorest people. Specifically, they spearhead educational outreach and advocacy efforts in the areas of hepatitis B and liver cancer prevention and treatment; serve as a resource for both the general public and health practitioners; and implement clinical and research programs. ALC regularly participates in community events throughout the Bay Area – providing screenings and low-cost vaccinations, hosting educational games and booths, speaking to health care providers and developing workshops to spread awareness about hepatitis B and liver cancer.
Stanford, CA, USA
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Asociacion Proteccion a la Salud (PROSALUD)
Asociacion Proteccion a la Salud (PROSALUD) contributes to the health needs of low-income populations in Bolivia. PROSALUD has evolved over two decades into a three-tier organization operating at the national, regional, and local levels. PROSALUD is involved in the areas of training, social marketing, health care delivery, operational research, resource management, and technical assistance. PROSALUD has created a primary health care delivery model with coverage in six of Bolivia’s nine departments, including 27 clinics, one child development center, and five hospitals, representing the largest private provider of health services in the country. PROSALUD is an innovative network of high quality and low cost services that is fully compatible with the national health system.
Santa Cruz, Bolivia
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Associação Saúde Criança (ASC)
Associação Saúde Criança (ASCR) was founded in 1991 by Dr. Vera Cordeiro. It is a non-governmental, non-profit, non-political and non-religious organization that is dedicated to improving the lives of children and families living in the low-income neighborhoods of Rio de Janeiro. Grounded in the principle that illness is not caused by biological factors alone, ASC aims at breaking a vicious cycle of poverty and suffering that, in many cases, results in the death of a patient because families don’t have the resources or structure to continue a child’s treatment at home. Through the development of a Family Action Plan, the organization focuses on five critical areas: housing, education, health care, citizenship, and family income. ASC works with the support of 140 volunteers and over 38 employees who care for 250 families and 850 children and adolescents. ASC’s main objective is to restructure the families of those children, giving them means to achieve self-sustainability.
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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Association for Reproductive and Family Health (ARFH)
Association for Reproductive and Family Health (ARFH) is a non-profit, NGO committed to improving the quality of the life in Nigeria and sub-Sahara Africa. ARFH was established in 1989 in response to the health and social needs of the disadvantaged groups in rural and urban communities. ARFH consistently responded to the challenges posed by HIV/AIDS; adolescent social, sexual and reproductive health problems; and maternal mortality rate in Nigeria. The transformation of ARFH into a viable and innovative national NGO is the result of the involvement of its founders complemented by skilled and dedicated staff in community-based reproductive health and family planning centers. ARFH’s mission is to initiate, promote and implement sustainable sexual and reproductive health and family planning services for youth and adults through training, technical assistance, evaluation and operations research, improving the quality of life in Nigeria and other African countries.
Ibadan, Oyo, Nigeria
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Bahrat Integrated Social Welfare Agency (BISWA)
Bharat Integrated Social Welfare Agency (BISWA) was established to alleviate the needs of the impoverished in India. BISWA supports: ensuring social justice for the disabled; the promotion of self help groups (SHGs); socio-economic rehabilitation of leprosy-cured persons; extending micro-finance and encouraging micro-enterprise; and creating an overall improved standard of living and alleviating widespread poverty. BISWA’s mission is to make a real and lasting social, financial, psychological and spiritual impact on individuals by helping build strong, cohesive communities and generating substantial employment opportunities by increasing the range of services.
Sambalpur, India
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Baobab Health Trust
Baobab Health Trust is a Malawian NGO providing eHealth solutions to the Ministry of Health to resolve the healthcare crises in Malawi with technological solutions to the presented healthcare challenges. It has developed software that is used in hospitals and clinics around the country that help healthcare workers register patients and aggregate essential treatment-related data more efficiently, allowing effective and efficient treatment for patients throughout the country. Baobab Health believes strongly in the ability of Malawians to solve their own challenges, and it is committed to hiring, training and developing local staff.
Lilongwe, Malawi
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BasicNeeds
BasicNeeds is an NGO working to bring about lasting change in the lives of mentally ill people around the world. The BasicNeeds approach is focused upon the eradication of poverty, the growth of sustainable futures and making the most of scarce resources to help the largest number of people possible. BasicNeeds works to help people by giving them access to community-based treatment to stabilize their illnesses. By building the capacity of communities, partner organizations and primary health care workers, BasicNeeds reduces stigma surrounding mental illnesses. Providing opportunities for sustainable livelihoods, BasicNeeds gives mentally ill people a chance to work therefore contribute to their family income.
Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, UK
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Baylor International Pediatric AIDS Initiative at Texas Children's Hospital (BIPAI-TCH)
Baylor International Pediatric AIDS Initiative at Texas Children’s Hospital (BIPAI-TCH) currently provides comprehensive primary and specialty care to HIV-infected and HIV-affected infants and children, ranging in age from 3 months to 19 years. Their mission is to conduct a program of high quality, high impact, highly ethical pediatric and family care, treatment, clinical research, and health professional training. Partner countries include Romania, Mexico, Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia, South Africa, and Swaziland.
Houston, Texas, USA
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Benevolent Healthcare Foundation - dba Project C.U.R.E.
Benevolent Healthcare Foundation (Project C.U.R.E.) was founded in 1987 to help meet the need for medical supplies, equipment and services around the world. PROJECT C.U.R.E. builds sustainable healthcare infrastructure by providing the medical supplies and equipment that medical personnel need to deliver healthcare to their communities. PROJECT C.U.R.E. has delivered medical relief to needy people in more than 120 countries, working with recipient partner organizations by donating the supplies and equipment necessary to provide healthcare to the people in local communities. PROJECT C.U.R.E. focuses on the sustainable development of the medical infrastructure through the operation of a national collection system that is able to draw from medical resources in many U.S. cities which are then distributed through a carefully constructed network of medical service providers in recipient countries
Centennial, Colorado, USA
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Bickford - Land Clinic for Mothers and Children
The Bickford Land Clinic for Mothers and Children is a U.S.-based non-profit organized to provide education, support and holistic clinical care to HIV-infected Vietnamese children and their families. The Clinic provides support so that these children and their families can live together with improved quality of life, knowing that they are accepted, understood, loved and cared with integrity. The Clinic ensures access to testing, treatment, medical care, social services, and integrated education programs.
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
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Botswana Preventing Mother-to-Child Transmission (PMTCT) HIV/AIDS Program
The goal of the Botswana PMTCT Programme is to improve child survival and development through the reduction of HIV related morbidity and mortality. Through a social mobilization strategy, communities are empowered to take responsibility for their health, leading to increased HIV testing and program uptake. Communities are also actively involved in identifying problems and coming up with practical solutions, communicating solutions in a language that they are familiar with. The program design includes a multisectoral approach to cultivate sustainability, acceptability, accessibility, efficiency and effectiveness which includes: training, social mobilization, routine HIV testing, antiretroviral intervention, infant feeding practices, and monitoring and evaluation
Gaborone, Botswan
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Botswana-Harvard School of Public Health AIDS Initiative Partnership (BHP)
The Botswana-Harvard School of Public Health AIDS Initiative Partnership (BHP) is a collaborative research and training initiative between the Government of the Republic of Botswana and the Harvard AIDS Institute (HAI). The BHP HIV Reference Laboratory houses epidemiological and laboratory research facilities for projects such as the prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) and the genomic analysis of the viral sub-type of HIV predominant in southern Africa. Research is conducted on the design and development of an HIV-1C vaccine and on resistance and adherence to anti-retroviral drugs. In addition, the Reference Laboratory plays a role as a training facility, building and expanding the professional infrastructure in Botswana by training the nation’s future researchers and laboratory technicians. BHP is also home to the KITSO AIDS Training Program, which provides health care professionals in Botswana the opportunity to enrich their clinical knowledge and practice. The research and training initiatives of BHP focus on questions of genetics, virology, epidemiology, immunology, clinical treatment, molecular biology, and social and behavioral medicine issues relevant to the epidemic in Botswana and southern Africa. The culmination of this research and training will be put into practice to develop interventions appropriate to stemming the epidemic and its societal and economic effects within those populations most affected by the crisis.
Gaborone, Botswan
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Burnet Institute (Burnet)
The Burnet Institute (Burnet) is a leading Australian medical research and public health organisation focused on improving the health of disadvantaged and marginalised groups. The medical research programs conducted encompass three areas: (1) infectious diseases – hepatitis, HIV, influenza, malaria and tuberculosis; (2) cancers – breast, ovarian, prostate and blood cancers; (3) and autoimmune diseases: rheumatoid arthritis and lupus. Burnet undertakes innovative, epidemiological research, including surveillance and modeling complemented by participatory social research. They also work regionally and internationally with governments, civil societies and communities in more than 15 countries. Burnet supports vigorous, productive and high quality programs, which continually strive to maintain excellence in medical and public health research and development and to translate this work into tangible health outcomes. Burnet will support and grow the programs in their delivery of the Institute’s research priorities and health agenda, by building capacity and strengthening health services, reducing the impact of major health problems
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Bwafwano Community Home Based Care Organization (Bwafwano)
The Bwafwano Community Home Based Care Organization (Bwafwano) was established in response to the increasing numbers of TB and HIV/AIDS patients and orphans and vulnerable children (OVC) in the Chipata catchment area. The high HIV prevalence rate, combined with high rates of poverty and unemployment, limited public services and rapid population growth, make the need for care and support services a priority. Bwafwano established a community health center to supplement the government clinic efforts to provide medical care and preventive and curative health services to OVC, TB patients, and people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA). Through its dedicated volunteers, the program has managed to bring care and support services as close to their patient’s homes as possible. The caregivers identify, register, and conduct home visits to provide counseling for the patients and their families, provide basic medical care to the patients, and identify cases that need additional attention, conduct food demonstrations, and assist families with household chores.
Lusaka, Zambia
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California Safe Schools (CSS)
California Safe Schools (CSS) is a project of Community Partners working to bring greater awareness to the pesticides that pose risks to human health and the environment, with special attention to children. CSS recognizes that pesticides cause adverse health effects in humans, such as cancer, neurological disruption, birth defects, genetic alteration, reproductive harm, immune system dysfunction, and acute poisoning. CSS provides alternatives for pest control in the form of Integrated Pest Management Systems (IPMs) to protect the health and safety of students and staff, maintaining a productive learning environment and the integrity of school buildings and grounds.
Toluca Lake, California, USA
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Canadian Anesthesiologists' Society International Education Foundation (CASIEF)
Canadian Anesthesiologists’ Society International Education Foundation (CASIEF) works to make modern anesthesia available to millions of people living in underdeveloped regions of the world. CASEIF supports Canadian anesthetists’ participation in the establishment of teaching centers in developing countries, with a special interest in Nigeria. CASEIF also enables oversea trainees to attend Canadian programs. CASIEF’s philosophy is to help anesthesia providers in developing countries to develop a self-sustaining program appropriate to the country's needs.
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA)
Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) is Canada's lead agency for development assistance. CIDA's aim is to manage Canada's support and resources effectively and accountably to achieve meaningful, sustainable results and engage in policy development locally and internationally. CIDA works to achieve its goals with development partners, fragile states, countries in crisis, selected countries and regions, and the Canadian population. The measure of its success lies in its contribution to the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and Canada's broader international policy objectives. CIDA's aim is to manage Canada's support and resources effectively and accountably to achieve meaningful, sustainable results and engage in policy development in Canada and internationally, enabling Canada's effort to realize its development objectives.
Gatineau, Québec, Canada
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Canadian Network for International Surgery (CNIS)
Canadian Network for International Surgery (CNIS) is a non-profit that provides surgical and obstetrical training to African practitioners. CNIS sends volunteer Canadian surgeons and obstetricians to share their skills with colleagues in Africa, who then pass the knowledge on to African medical students. This unique train-the-trainer approach provides cost-effective, hands-on techniques to maximize impact. Currently the CNIS runs an Essential Surgical Skills Course (ESS), a Structured Operative Obstetrical skills course, a Structured Hernia Repair course, a Trauma Team Training course (for nurses, physicians and other health care team members) and Injury Control Activities which includes the development of an injury data set and injury control centers.
Montréal, Québec, Canada
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Canadian Public Health Association (CPHA)
Canadian Public Health Association (CPHA) is a national, independent, non-profit, voluntary public health association in Canada. CPHA's members believe in universal and equitable access to the basic conditions which are necessary to achieve health for all Canadians. CPHA's mission is to constitute a special national resource in Canada that advocates for the improvement and maintenance of personal and community health according to the public health principles of disease prevention, health promotion and protection and healthy public policy. CPHA stresses its role by working with federal and provincial government departments and international agencies, NGOs and the private sector in conducting research and health services programs.
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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Cancer Aid Society
The Cancer Aid Society is a non-profit NGO working within the guidelines of the National Cancer Control Program of the WHO to generate awareness among children and adults throughout the country. Their emphasis is on exercise, carcinogens, tobacco abuse, personal hygiene healthy life styles, good dietary habits, and the early symptoms and detection of cancer. They aim to decrease morbidity by targeting primary prevention and early detection, as well as to improve the quality of life through palliative care.
Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India
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CARE
CARE is an NGO dedicated to ending poverty and providing relief in times of crisis, working in 72 countries around the world. The significance of CARE’s contribution to global health lies not only in its size and scope, but also in its ability to mobilize communities to tackle their specific health challenges. CARE places special focus on working alongside poor and underprivileged women because, equipped with the proper resources, women have the power to help whole families and entire communities escape poverty. Women are at the heart of CARE's community-based efforts to improve basic education, prevent the spread of HIV, increase access to clean water and sanitation, expand economic opportunity and protect natural resources. CARE’s mission is to serve individuals and families in the poorest communities in the world, drawing strength from global diversity, resources and experience, and promoting innovative solutions and advocating for global responsibility. CARE facilitates change by delivering relief in emergencies, providing economic opportunities, strengthening the capacity for self-help, addressing discrimination in all forms, and influencing policy decisions at all levels.
Atlanta, Georgia, USA
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CEMOPLAF
CEMOPLAF is a non-profit offering sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services and products to communities and contributing to quality of life improvements. CEMOPLAF has twenty-eight multi-service centers that include medical treatment, clinical laboratories, medicine kits, diagnosis and treatment equipment, and integral programs of community development specifically directed to high-priority groups, such as adolescents, mothers, children and families. CEMOPLAF has worked hard to reach rural and indigenous communities that have little or no access to basic health services through the establishment of mobile clinics. CEMOPLAF was founded and is currently directed by professional women who saw the need to move beyond a family planning program to an organization that places the family unit at the center of health services.
Quito, Pichincha, Ecuador
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Centro Civico of Amsterdam, Inc.
Centro Civico of Amsterdam, Inc. is a non-profit, community based organization primarily serving the Hispanic Community in Amsterdam and surrounding areas, regardless of age, race, color, creed, gender, disability, national origin, or sexual orientation. Centro Civico is dedicated to the comprehensive development of the community through the creation and implementation of small business development, employment and job training, culturally-relevant health and educational programs, housing initiatives, physical and mental health services, and other essential programs which promote self-sufficiency and greater participation in the mainstream of society.
Amsterdam, New York, USA
Child in Need Institute (CINI)
Child in Need Institute (CINI) is an NGO operating primarily in West Bengal and Jharkhand. CINI wants to help people help themselves. CINI has evolved over time and now tackles a range of the challenges facing India’s poorest families, realizing quickly that one of the main reasons why children were trapped in poverty was due to their lack of education. As a result, projects were established which focused on getting poor children into education and continuing to support them through to adulthood. CINI has developed a multi-layered approach, working to empower women by giving them an active role in its programmes and empowering them by communicating their rights and entitlements to them. CINI also reaches out to every level of government from community leaders to policy makers to ensure that as much as possible is being done to help.
Daulatpur, West Bengal, India
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Children's Cancer Hospital Egypt Foundation 57357
The mission of the Children's Cancer Hospital Egypt Foundation 57357 (CCHF) is to cure and improve the quality of life for all children with cancer regardless of race, creed or ability to pay. They hope to achieve this by improving the quality of life and providing hope for a cure and relief from cancer. CCHF strongly supports the National Cancer Institute of Egypt in the areas of patient care, equipment and facility upgrade, and education. Building a world class hospital, CCHF has propelled health care at Hospital 57357 to international levels, hoping to ultimately raise the cancer survival rate in Egypt significantly.
Cairo, Egypt
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Child-to-Child Trust (CtC)
Child-to-Child Trust (CtC) an international network promoting children’s participation in health and development based at the University of London’s Institute of Education. CtC enables children and young people worldwide to reach their full potential and achieve their rights by promoting the holistic health, well-being and development of themselves, their families and their communities. Children then spread their learning to other children, their families and their wider communities through participatory activities. CtC approaches have contributed greatly to health activities in hygiene, water, sanitation and disease prevention. Currently, particular areas have also been identified where the approach is seen to have a lasting impact, such as early childhood development, health education and promotion in schools, children living with difficult circumstances, children living with difficult circumstances, children in communities affected by HIV/AIDS, and adolescent reproductive and sexual health education.
London, United Kingdom
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China Population Welfare Foundation (CPWF)
The China Population Welfare Foundation (CPWF) actively participates in poverty reduction with an emphasis on improving the situation of women. CPWF uses a module in which the individuals support themselves through work programs, assisting each other for further development. CPWF’s mission is to focus on the risks to families and individuals as a result of China’s social problems, such as poverty, quality of life, urbanization and the growing aging population; CWPF strives to improve the general health and welfare and family happiness while contributing to the establishment of a harmonious society.
Beijing, China
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Clínica de Especialidades Médicas (ASEMBIS)
Clínica de Especialidades Médicas (ASEMBIS) is a non-profit NGO which offers the Costa Rican community quality and professional eye-care services. ASEMBIS has developed a participatory system of eye-care that enables Costa Ricans of all classes to access a wide range of affordable medical services. ASEMBIS has developed a range of programs that aim to ensure the accessibility of affordable vision care, such as training a corps of health promoters, mostly graduate students, to travel to schools, senior citizen centers, and social security clinics throughout Costa Rica to detect vision problems, prescribe treatment, and send the most severe cases for surgery at the low-cost clinic she set up in the outskirts of San José.
Guadalupe, Costa Rica
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Comforting Hearts, NGO
Comforting Hearts is an NGO dedicated to increasing the prevention, care and support for persons living with and affected by HIV/AIDS. Guyana is experiencing a steady increase in the incidence of HIV infection and in the number of persons diagnosed with AIDS. Given this pattern, an increasing number of individuals will require education on the prevention and transmission of HIV infection to adequately protect themselves and others. Comforting Hearts plays a major role in addressing these needs, especially needs for STIs and HIV/AIDS. Comforting Hearts offers care, support, and counseling and promotes specific educational programs for targeted groups. Comforting Hearts strives to meet the needs by providing the following services: workshops and information sessions; annual participation in World AIDS campaign activities; and regular outreach programs, distribution of condoms and relevant literature.
New Amsterdam, Berbice, Guyana
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Community Health and Micro Credit (CHAM) Program - Proyecto Aldea Global
The Community Health and Micro Credit (CHAM) Program is a non-profit Christian NGO committed to empowering families to enable poverty reduction and build just, peaceful and productive communities based on Christian values. CHAM uses an integral development strategy that includes many different programs: general education, infrastructure development, health & HIV/ AIDS prevention, domestic violence awareness, agro-industrial development, and environment and tourism opportunities.
Tegucigalpa, Francisco Morazán, Honduras
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Concern America
Concern America is a nonprofit, nonsectarian NGO development and refugee aid organization whose philosophy emphasizes the transference of skills and the creation of opportunity – not just the placement of resources – into impoverished regions. Concern America trains local populations in health, education, agriculture, and environmental health, and then accompanies these populations for eight to ten years to build local, functional social systems that meet their basic needs. Eventually, the Concern America team can be withdrawn, leaving in place trained local people who are able to continue working and training neighboring communities.
Santa Ana, California, USA
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Consolidated Care Services, Inc.
Consolidated Care Services, Inc. is a non-profit dedicated to lowering the infant, child and mother death rates in Nigeria through education programs and welfare assistance. With the Red Cross, Consolidated Care Services provides food items, beds and mattresses, and clothing to assist families and orphans. Their mission includes providing free medical services for cataracts, hernias, fibroid surgeries, and health education on diabetes, cancer awareness and circulatory diseases, as well as the importance of monthly self-breast examinations, mammograms and the importance of early diagnosis and treatment. They are also heavily invested in STI and HIV/AIDS awareness programs and prevention.
Sugar Land, Texas, USA
CORAL, Hearing and Language Rehabilitation Center of Oaxaca, Mexico
CORAL, Hearing and Language Rehabilitation Center of Oaxaca, Mexico, is an NGO offering hearing-impaired adults and children a full range of hearing rehabilitative services and programs. CORAL offers early detection, alternative education and treatment for hearing loss and deafness in Mexico and Latin America, providing opportunities to people with hearing loss regardless of their economic status. CORAL expanded to meet the community's needs by developing a formal hearing clinic and rural social work and outreach program and instituted an oral education school in 1999 to enable deaf children to communicate within the greater community. CORAL teachers receive top-notch training from education professionals in the United States and Mexico.
Oaxaca, Mexico
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Direct Relief International (DRI)
Direct Relief International is a nonsectarian NGO and apolitical organization providing medical assistance to improve the quality of life for people affected by poverty, disaster, and civil unrest throughout the world. DRI provides health services to people in rural areas that are poor, lack health infrastructure, and in which severe health challenges exist. DRI works to strengthen the in-country health efforts of its partners by providing essential material resources – medicines, supplies and equipment. DRI focuses on strengthening existing fragile health systems in poor areas with resources that enable the trained health workers already there to address the community’s specific needs. Since its inception, DRI has provided aid in response to emergencies and refugee populations, beginning with postwar refugee assistance in Eastern Europe and Greece. DRI has also provided support for more than 40 years to Tibetan refugees and has consistently responded with targeted medical aid following major emergencies since the 1970 Peru earthquake. Today, Direct Relief provides appropriate and specifically requested medical resources to community-based institutions and organizations in 59 countries, including the United States.
Santa Barbara, California, USA
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East Meets West Foundation (EMW)
The 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 dental program, support for children with disabilities, a surgery program to heal heart defects in children, a scholarship program to improve educational outcomes, and an innovative Clean Water Program that brings potable piped water to over a hundred thousand people in Vietnam. EMW’s programs reflect a commitment to removing the barriers that prevent people from enjoying life's fullest opportunities.
Oakland, California, USA
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Elbrus, the Medical-improving Center
Elbrus uses the method of normobaric hypo-oxytherapy (breathing mixture with low atmospheric oxygen concentrations) with hyper oxygen interval to provide treatment mainly (98%) for invalids, underprivileged, and children affected by Chernobyl. More than 3 million people in Ukraine were affected by the Chernobyl catastrophe; more than 1.5 million of them were children. 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. Elbrus’ methods include prevention of a wide range of healthy subjects to improve the physical and operational efficiency and resistance to psycho-emotional stress; treatment for diseases of the blood, the digestive and the cardiovascular systems; and rehabilitation once treatment is complete.
Zhitomir, Ukraine
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Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation (EGPAF)
The Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation (EGPAF) creates a future of hope for children and families worldwide by working to eradicate 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 through research, advocacy, prevention and treatment programs. The Foundation has become a worldwide leader in the fight against pediatric AIDS by using three main strategies: (1) advocating for children's health; (2) funding critical research and training; and (3) launching and supporting global health initiatives to prevent mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) of HIV with care and treatment. Whether working to attract top researchers to the field of pediatric AIDS, creating programs that provide a full continuum of care in developing countries, or collaborating to accelerate clinical discoveries, EGPAF’s programs offer hope for all children and families living with HIV/AIDS.
Washington, D.C., USA
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EngenderHealth
EngenderHealth is a leading international reproductive health organization working to improve the quality of health care in the world’s poorest communities. EngenderHealth promotes gender equality, advocates for positive policy change, enhances the quality of HIV and AIDS services, trains health providers to make motherhood safer, and empowers people to make informed choices about contraception. EngenderHealth works in partnership with governments, institutions, communities, and health care professionals in more than 25 countries around the world. For over 65 years, EngenderHealth has reached more than 100 million people to provide a better life.
Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa
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Equinet
Equinet is a network of professionals, civil society members, policy makers, state officials and others within the region that have come together to promote and realize shared values of equity and social justice in health, allowing people to overcome isolation by giving them a voice. EQUINET is governed by a steering committee involving academic, government and civic and international institutions, as well as the South African Development Community (SADC). EQUINET activities are coordinated and managed through Training and Research Support Centre, a non profit institution headquartered in Zimbabwe that carries out health and social policy work at national, regional and international level. Human rights are gaining increasing attention in development discourse internationally, but may pose potential contradictions to policies that seek to promote health equity. EQUINET has begun to explore what kinds of rights approaches are best suited to an equity agenda, and aims to deepen these frameworks through participatory action research in selected projects. Capacity building to engage rights frameworks will also be developed through EQUINET’s participating institutions.
Harare, Central Province, Zimbabwe
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Family Health International (FHI)
Family Health International (FHI) is a public health and development organization working to improve the lives of the world's most vulnerable people through research, education and services in family health. Working with NGOs, schools, hospitals, universities, governments, health centers, and faith-based programs in more than seventy countries, FHI aims to stop the spread of HIV, care for those infected and affected by HIV/AIDS, improve reproductive health, strengthen family planning services and prevent the spread of malaria, tuberculosis and other infectious diseases. FHI improves lives worldwide through the synergistic strengths of research and programs in public health.
Durham, North Carolina, USA
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Family Health Strategy
The Family Health Strategy works to reorient the health care model by putting teams of professional health care workers into working health centers. The health teams are responsible for supervising a set number of families in a specific geographical area. The teams then work toward maintaining the health of the community by following and treating common illnesses and injuries and education the public about disease prevention, recovery methods and rehabilitation. The responsibility for a territory and a specific family creates the need to go beyond the traditional care methods for an illness normally provided by the professionals of family health teams in the clinic or at home. Working within the community, a bond of co-responsibility is created which facilitates the efficient identification, treatment and monitoring of health risks to individuals and families in the community.
Brasilia, DF, Brazil
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Firelight Foundation
The Firelight Foundation is a private family foundation whose mission is to support and advocate for the needs and rights of children who are orphaned or affected by HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa. Firelight strives to increase the resources available to grassroots organizations that are strengthening the capacity of families and communities to care for children made vulnerable by HIV/AIDS. In the last decade, Firelight has given 1,082 grants, totaling more than $11 million, reaching more than 300 community-based organizations in 10 sub-Saharan African countries; almost all of the grants were under $10,000. It has approved roughly 20 percent of the requests for funding, and its ``loss rate’’ has been about 1 percent – meaning that 99 percent of its grants were used for the purposes for which they were intended. Although local communities are the greatest source of support to children and families affected by HIV/AIDS and poverty, far too little donor funding is directed to the grassroots level. Firelight seeks to address this gap by providing small grants directly to community-based organizations (CBOs) that are effectively responding to the needs of vulnerable children.
Santa Cruz, California, USA
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Fondation pour la Santé Reproductrice et l'Education Familiale (FOSREF)
Fondation pour la Santé Reproductrice et l'Education Familiale (FOSREF) is a Haitian NGO whose mission is to promote reproductive health education for Haitians and their families, particularly young people. FOSREF aims to: increase the safe sex practices among youth, reduce the incidence of STIs/HIV/AIDS among youth and adolescents, make family education and SRH services to youths more accessible, offer sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services to vulnerable groups, and reduce the incidence of early and unwanted pregnancy among youth and adolescents. FOSREF is the only organization in Haiti that has a direct mandate from the Ministry of Education to give reproductive health services, including HIV/AIDS testing and counseling, to youth aged 15 to 24. FOSREF's youth voluntary counseling and testing (VCT) centers are funded through a three-year grant from the U.S. Agency for International Development's (USAID) Community REACH HIV/AIDS Grants program. FOSREF's VCT project is the first of its kind in Haiti, targeting 350,000 youth. The program provides access to a full range of VCT-related services, including youth-friendly VCT/HIV special services, stigma reduction, training for health care providers, development of post-test clubs, psychosocial support to HIV-positive youth and their families, and the creation of a referral system to link HIV-positive young people to clinical care. VCT services have been integrated into existing FOSREF youth-friendly centers in the metropolitan area of Port-au-Prince, and are being replicated to every province in Haiti.
Port-au-Prince, West Department, Haiti
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Foundation for Professional Development (FPD)
Foundation for Professional Development (FPD) is a South African Private Institution of Higher Education established in October 1997 by the South African Medical Association. The mission of FPD is to ensure the availability of skilled professionals and managers who will be able to deliver a service to the public that is affordable, evidence-based and congruent with international best practice. The FPD focuses on providing health sector specific management and leadership development, expanding 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 that 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, Gauteng, South Africa
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Framework Convention Alliance (FCA)
The Framework Convention Alliance (FCA) is an alliance of NGOs set up to ensure the collaboration of all civil society groups working toward the negotiation, adoption and implementation of the WHO’s international treaty – the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC). The FCTC is the world’s first global public health treaty, and requires parties to adopt a comprehensive range of measures designed to reduce the devastating health and economic impacts of tobacco. The FCA’s mission is to perform the watchdog function for the WHO, and to develop tobacco control capacity - particularly in developing countries. There are two parts to tobacco control at the global level that are critical to the FCTC: trans-boundary issues, such as adequate controls to prevent cigarette smuggling and a ban on all direct and indirect tobacco advertising; and domestic issues such as the creation of nationally-mandated smoke-free areas, the use of tax policy to discourage tobacco use, and effective regulation of the tobacco product. The Framework Convention Alliance, a heterogeneous alliance of more than 170 NGOs from around the world working jointly and separately to support the development of a strong Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, has identified 10 key issues it believes require the most urgent attention of negotiating governments, the majority of which require little capital investment, but a firm political commitment from governments.
Geneva, Switzerland
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Friends Association for Rural Reconstruction (FARR)
The Friends Association for Rural Reconstruction (FARR) empowers women and the poor. FARR initiates and strengthens value-based training programmes that encourage people-centered participatory development. FARR presents awareness workshops in communities on the issues of human rights, tribal and legal rights, environmental issues and women's empowerment. FARR encourages the use of new and improved methods of agriculture, agro-based industries, and poverty alleviation programs, including the promotion of minimum health services, immunization, better sanitation and education for children. FARR documents human rights abuses committed against these groups and is also involved in training paralegals to defend their rights.
Bhawanipatna, Orissa, India
Fundación Canguro (Kangaroo Foundation)
Fundación Canguro (Kangaroo Foundation) is a non-profit organization created by a group of health professionals with a mission to humanize the care of newborn infants, particularly premature births and those with low birth weight. (KMC) is an evidence-based technology, centered on the mother as the main provider of heat and stimulation (skin-to-skin contact, i.e. the "kangaroo" position), nutrition (maternal milk) and close monitoring at home. Devised by a pediatrician in Colombia more than 20 years ago, KMC has emerged as a unique, readily available tool to enhance the health care of low birth weight children around the world. Major components of the method include the kangaroo position, feeding, and early discharge and follow-up practices. KMC is an efficacious and safe option, particularly in developing countries with limited human and technical resources. It is a powerful, easy-to-use method that relies on human resources that are, at least theoretically, always available to mothers, families and basic skilled health-care providers. Fundación Canguro aims to implement a program of research that includes greater involvement of clinicians and different KMC partners around the world. This is the fastest and most effective way to achieve results for treating premature infants.
Bogota D.C., Cundinamarca, Colombia
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Fundación Mexicana para la Planeación Familiar, A.C. (MEXFAM)
Fundación Mexicana para la Planeación Familiar, A.C. (MEXFAM) is a nonprofit partnership governed by volunteers and headed by a group of professionals actively involved in family planning programs throughout Mexico. MEXFAM’s mission is to provide quality and avant-guard services in family planning, sexual health and education, principally targeting the most vulnerable population in Mexico: the young and the poor. Together with volunteers and staff, MEXFAM works towards gender equality, freedom and responsibility in decisions about sexuality and reproduction. Their aim is to: help its youth develop in an environment free of social prejudice; have access to quality information and services; freely exercise their rights and responsibilities; and inhabit a world free of sexually transmitted infections, including HIV / AIDS. MEXFAM also strives to prevent mother’s deaths from complications of pregnancy, childbirth or abortions performed in unsafe conditions, as well as from cervical and breast cancers. MEXFAM’s strategic plan establishes objectives and main action lines to direct its work toward promoting a new culture on sexual health based on gender equity, the defense of sexual and reproductive rights, and a greater participation on the part of men towards health in the family while contributing to diminish the fact that poor Mexican populations have been left behind in a significant way in matters of basic health and sexual and reproductive health.
Mexico D.F., Mexico
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Grameen Bank (GB)
Grameen Bank (GB) is reversing conventional banking practice by removing the need for collateral and creating a system based on mutual trust, accountability, participation and creativity. GB provides credit to the poorest of the poor in rural Bangladesh without any collateral. At GB, credit is a cost-effective weapon to fight poverty, plus it serves as a catalyst in the overall development of socio-economic conditions of the poor who have been kept outside the banking orbit simple because they are poor and not traditionally bankable. As of October, 2009, GB had 7.94 million borrowers, 97% of whom are women. With 2,560 branches, GB provides services in 84,787 villages, covering close to 100% of the total villages in Bangladesh.
Mirpur 2, Dhaka, Bangladesh
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Grameen Bank (GB), Grameen Kaylan (GK)
Grameen Kaylan is a non-profit whose primary goal is to provide a series of improvement and cost-effective welfare and healthcare services to Grameen Bank (GB) members, employees, and other villagers. GK is committed to providing basic curative and preventive health services in centers that are usually attached to a GB branch, which then act as insurers, providers of primary health care services, and as markets for selected health products, such as: pathology; family planning; school programs; mother and child care; cataract blindness prevention; emergency, referral, and laboratory services; domiciliary community health service; static & satellite clinic outdoor service; training and human resource development workshops. Since it's inception in 1996 as an non-profit entity, GK has been expanding its health services in rural Bangladesh, which include an affordable micro-health insurance scheme, a network of community- based health centers and satellite clinics, a functional system of referrals for secondary and tertiary health care, and outreach health services by community- based female health workers. Every health center of GK uses modern equipment to ensure accuracy and quality health service, which shows the commitment of GK to extend modern technology to everyone.
Mirpur 2, Dhaka, Bangladesh
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Grass-Root Organization for Human Development (GODH)
The Grass-Root Organization for Human Development (GODH) is an NGO working towards changing attitudes toward Gypsies with regards to peace, democracy, human rights, social justice and social and political development. GODH provides basic educational and health facilities to Gypsy children in different areas of Lahore and within Gypsy settlements. GODH has carried out an advocacy campaign to cope with the issue of Gypsy marginalization and has mobilized the state departments to draw up a comprehensive strategy for the recognition of the Gypsy’s citizenship rights and their inclusion in the developmental dialogue. GODH is also dedicated to preserving the dying culture of indigenous Gypsies and eliminating prevailing social prejudices.
Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan
Green Hope Organisation
The Green Hope Organisation is a non-profit NGO without religious or political affiliations working to promote sound socio-economic development for youth, women and children in Tanzania. The entity is operational countrywide and focuses on empowering local communities and equitably ensuring maximum utilization of limited resources in a sustainable way so as to bring about cultural and socio-economic development. Green Hope is focused on improving primary health in rural and urban poor households in Tanzania by the year 2025, per MDGs.
Arusha, Tanzania
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Groupe Haïtien pour l'Etude de Sarcome de Kaposi et des Infections Opportunistes (GHESKIO) (Haitian Group for the Study of Kaposi's Sarcoma and Opportunistic Infections)
Groupe Haïtien pour l'Etude de Sarcome de Kaposi et des Infections Opportunistes (GHESKIO) is a Haitian NGO dedicated to clinical service, research, and training in HIV/AIDS and related diseases. GHESKIO’s commitment has led to the expansion of many similar GHESKIO models on the national level. Working in partnership with the Haitian Government, GHESKIO provides integrated primary care services, including HIV counseling, AIDS care and treatment, prenatal care, and management of tuberculosis and sexually transmitted infections, care for diarrheal diseases, blood safety, and the prevention of congenital syphilis. Through the development of national programs to address major health issues, GHESKIO has played a catalytic role in improving public health in Haiti. Through the conduct of research, GHESKIO defines HIV/AIDS treatment and prevention models for Haiti. GHESKIO was the first research group on HIV formed after the CDC formally recognized AIDS in 1982, and since its inception, GHESKIO has been a model of integration 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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Hadassah Medical Organization
Hadassah Medical Organization builds bridges to nations through the universal language of medicine. Even in times of turmoil within Israel’s own borders, the Hadassah Medical Organization reaches out to countries worldwide with emergency relief and cutting-edge clinical training. Whether it is teaching physicians from developing nations an innovative medical procedure or training pubic health officials to prevent epidemics of HIV/AIDS, the Hadassah Medical Organization is glad to share its expertise. One of the Hadassah Medical Organization’s most important humanitarian contributions has been treating and preventing HIV/AIDS. Globally renowned for its humanitarian policy of treating and reaching out to all people with high-quality compassionate care regardless of ethnicity or religion, the Hadassah Medical Organization was nominated in 2005 for the Nobel Peace Prize. The Hadassah Medical Organization, together with the Peres Center for Peace, has trained Palestinian physicians to create their own pediatric oncology unit.
Jerusalem, Israel
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Heartbeat International Organization
Heartbeat International Organization 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 (HKI)
Helen Keller International (HKI) is among the oldest international non-profit 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 providing 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, 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, cataracts, 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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HELPS International
HELPS International is a non-profit that partners with individuals, businesses, corporations, local and national governments to alleviate poverty in Latin America. HELPS' volunteers help all, regardless of ethnicity, social, political, or religious beliefs. HELPS integrates its programs into the areas of healthcare, education, economic development, and environmental protection, working with other NGOs and private enterprises to promote sustainability of its programs. HELPS strives for permanent change in communities through its programs, and promotes mutual respect, responsibility, and partnership with local infrastructure, which ensures cohesiveness in cultural, medical, spiritual and economic affairs of the rural population.
Addison, Texas, USA
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Human Infections Foundation (HIF)
Human Infections Foundation (HIF) is a non-profit dedicated to the health and welfare of all working against the spread of infectious diseases. At the grass-roots level, HIF has brought changes to economically deprived societies in India by working with PERSON, a health awareness NGO that focuses on HIV/AIDS, H1N1, malaria, and TB.
New Delhi, Delhi, India
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Humanitarian Action for Relief and Development Organization (HARDO)
Humanitarian Action for Relief and Development Organization (HARDO) is a non-profit NGO that is non-religious and non-political based. HARDO has been able to implement many successful projects in a concerted effort with the local communities and the international donors, ranging from emergency relief interventions to developmental projects. In its campaigns, HARDO has trained internally displaced peoples (IDPs) and members of the host community in water management, waste management, and personal and domestic hygiene. HARDO’s greatest emphasis however is placed on the importance of child health and behavior change among the youth who are being lured into sexual practices and recruited into the wars to make badly needed money. HARDO always involves all project stakeholders in all stages of the project implementation processes, enabling them to build widespread networks and trust within local communities.
Nairobi, Kenya
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Ifakara Health Institute (IHI)
Ifakara Health Institute (IHI) is an autonomous, non-profit, district-based health research and resource institute. The mission statement of IHI is to develop and sustain a health research and resource centre capable of generating new knowledge and relevant information for public health policy and actions. IHI is committed to adhere to the concept of Essential National Health Research (ENHR), whose aim is to achieve equity in health and development. Basic tenets and core values of the centre are to respect equity, partnership, transparency, human dignity, accountability, and scientific excellence. The Institute aims at providing affordable solutions for national health problems, advising resource allocations leading to maximum health gain and supporting primary health care implementation within the context of a changing healthcare sector.
Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania
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Indian Institute of Health Management Research (IIHMR)
Indian Institute of Health Management Research (IIHMR) is the first of its kind in India, with attention solely focused on health systems management. IIHMR is an institution dedicated to the improvement in standards of health through better management of health care and related programmes. IIHMR seeks to accomplish their goals through management research, training, consultation and institutional networking in a national and global perspective.
Jaipur, Rajasthan, India
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Indonesian Red Cross (PMI)
The Indonesian Red Cross (PMI) began its operations by giving assistance to victims of the Indonesian Independence War, facilitating repatriation of the Allied forces and Japanese prisoners of war. Since its inception, PMI has reduced the number of deaths and illnesses and alleviated the impact of disease and public health emergencies all across Indonesia. PMI has managed to dot this by improving local capacity to respond to disasters such as tsunamis and earthquakes; promoting healthy practices and preventing disease at the community level, as with the H5N1 virus (bird flu); and engaging civil society and community volunteers in preventing pandemics, as in the recent outbreak of the H1N1 novo virus (swine flu). PMI motivates its community members to reach out beyond the confines of paid employment and everyday responsibilities and contribute in various ways to benefit their community, without expectation of any profit or reward other than the satisfaction of helping others.
Jakarta, Jakarta DKI, Indonesia
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Intelligent Insect Control (IIC)
Intelligent Insect Control (IIC) is an approach to insect control that integrates technology and understanding of insect behaviour to achieve lasting results while improving human and environmental aspects. IIC was founded on the idea that insect control in human health and agricultural context should always be carried out to achieve maximum, sustainable effects while having minimal negative impact on the environment. According to this maxim, IIC aims to create solutions that may be based on biological agents, low toxic synthetic chemicals applied intelligently, and non-toxic means such as specially designed barriers. While working to ensure that insect control in agriculture and human health can be done effectively in a manner that does not compromise the environment, IIC is aware that any project should be feasible from economic and socio-economic perspectives.
Castelnau le Lez, France
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Inter-African Committee on Traditional Practices (IAC)
Inter-African Committee (IAC) on Traditional Practices is an NGO which seeks to change social values and raise consciousness towards eliminating female genital mutilation (FGM) and other traditional practices which affect the health of women and children in Africa. The IAC began at a seminar in Dakar in 1984 with a focus on fighting harmful practices relating to FGM, childbirth, nutrition and food, and early marriage, and promoting traditional practices considered beneficial, such as breastfeeding and baby massage. However, fighting FGM is the main focus of their work. Based in Addis Ababa, the IAC also has 32 national branches in 28 countries in Africa. IAC pioneered the only African NGO and NGO network to address the problems of harmful traditional practices. The main target groups for the IAC activities include grass roots women and men in rural areas, community leaders, health and social workers, traditional birth attendants and healers, students and youth organizations as well as policy makers.
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
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International Clinical Epidemiology Network (INCLEN)
International Clinical Epidemiology Network (INCLEN) is comprised of health specialists dedicated to improving the health of disadvantaged populations in low- and middle-income countries by promoting equitable health care based on the efficient use of resources. INCLEN has helped clinicians and other scientists obtain the knowledge and tools to improve the health of people in the developing world through carefully designed training and other support. INCLEN also supports young researchers and provides network members opportunities to participate in collaborative clinical studies. INCLEN provides a forum for researchers to discuss critical health issues through educational programs, global meetings, and an international communications network. As a partnership of clinicians and health scientists who are trained to use and produce the best possible evidence in their medical decision making, INCLEN can have a profound impact on health care practices globally.
New Delhi, India
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International Company of the Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul
The International Company of the Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul is the largest community of consecrated women recognized by the Catholic Church. Its mission is to serve those who are poor, without regard for religion, race, and sex, or socio-economic, national and political circumstances. One of the principal goals of the Daughters of Charity has been systemic change. This entails helping those who are poor to find ways to emerge from poverty, tackling root causes and working to change systems that marginalize the impoverished, often leading to ill health and, sometimes, death. Drawn to remote and neglected populations in developing countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East, the Daughters initiate cost-effective programs in places where access to health care information and services are limited or nonexistent.
Paris Cedex 07, France
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International Council for Control of Iodine Deficiency Disorders (ICCIDD)
International Council for Control of Iodine Deficiency Disorders (ICCIDD) is a nonprofit NGO, a founding member of the Network for Sustained Elimination of Iodine Deficiency Disorders (IDD), and an official participant in the annual World Health Assembly. ICCIDD is the only international organization specifically constituted to promote optimal iodine nutrition and the elimination of IDD. ICCIDD has economists, technologists, salt producers, public health workers, development managers, scientists in the medical and nutrition fields, and many others involved in fields related to iodine nutrition, all committed to assisting governments and international agencies in developing national programs for the virtual elimination of IDD as a public health problem. ICCIDD consultants participate in public policy development and advocacy, program development, implementation and training, by assisting countries with significant IDD problems to develop national IDD control programs, in cooperation with national governments, institutions, individuals, private industries, welfare agencies, major international agencies, and key bilateral aid-giving agencies.
Greensboro, North Carolina, USA
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International Council of Nurses (ICN)
The International Council of Nurses (ICN) is a federation of national nurses’ associations (NNAs) operated by nurses, for nurses. ICN works to ensure quality nursing care for all, sound health policies globally, the advancement of nursing knowledge, and the presence worldwide of a respected nursing profession and a competent and satisfied nursing workforce. ICN’s main focus is on training nurses in TB and MDR-TB (multi-drug resistant TB) detection, and the subsequent prevention, care and treatment. ICN’s Training of Trainers (TOT) Project is developing a critical mass of nurse trainers in countries burdened with high TB rates, and also supports a stream of inter-professional collaboration in infection control and online education. ICN not only serves as an information base for nursing world wide, but is also a vocal leader on numerous humanitarian and human rights issues while providing health care in the most remote and desolate places in the world.
Geneva, Switzerland
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International Education for Peace Institute (EFP)
International Education for Peace Institute (EFP) is an independent, non-profit association without any religious or political affiliation. EFP-International creates a civilization of peace by assisting individuals, families, schools, communities and groups to prevent conflict, strengthen inter-group cooperation and apply the principles of unity-in-diversity, equality and justice. EFP draws upon the expertise of international faculty specialized in the fields of law, sociology, psychology, peace education, political science, religious studies, conflict resolution, and curriculum development who work closely with local educators, pedagogues, counselors, psychologists, and administrators to develop and implement context-appropriate programs in their respective schools and institutions.
Victoria, British Colombia, Canada
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International Eye Foundation (IEF)
International Eye Foundation’s (IEF) mission has been to prevent blindness and restore vision in the developing world. For over four decades, the IEF has helped millions of people in more than 60 developing nations worldwide. 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 fighting the major causes of sight loss, including Vitamin A deficiency, trachoma, and "river blindness," many of which attack young children. IEF is dedicated to preventing blindness and restoring sight worldwide by eliminating the causes of avoidable blindness, reducing the cost of eye care, and creating a network of highly efficient, productive and self-sustaining eye hospitals that treat all.
Kensington, Maryland, USA
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International Medical Corps (IMC)
International Medical Corps (IMC) is a global, humanitarian, non-profit organization dedicated to saving lives and relieving suffering through health-care training 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. Over the years, International Medical Corps has responded to the world’s most devastating man-made and natural disasters, including famine in Somalia, ethnic cleansing in Bosnia, the Rwandan genocide, and atrocities against children in Sierra Leone. More recently, International Medical Corps was a first responder after the 2004 tsunami in southeast Asia, the 2005 earthquake in Pakistan, responded domestically following Hurricane Katrina, and is among the dwindling number of humanitarian agencies still working in Darfur and Iraq.
Santa Monica, California, USA
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International Medical Equipment Collaborative (IMEC)
International Medical Equipment Collaborative (IMEC) is a non-profit, volunteer-based organization whose mission is to provide doctors in developing countries with quality medical equipment to improve health care for the poor. IMEC fulfills its mission by working with other humanitarian organizations to revitalize existing, impoverished hospitals in the developing world with donated medical equipment and supplies that are acquired, repaired and packaged by dedicated volunteers. IMEC assembles and ships donated medical equipment and supplies with the intention of providing all the equipment needed to turn an empty room into a fully functional department of a working hospital. IMEC’s Complete Medical Suites —nursery, exam room, delivery room, operating room, radiology, laboratory, etc.— include furniture and linens as well as medical equipment and tools, all cleaned, repaired and ready to use.
North Andover, Massachusetts, USA
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International Society for Infectious Diseases (ISID)
The International Society for Infectious Diseases (ISID) is committed to improving the care of patients with infectious diseases, the training of clinicians and researchers in infectious diseases and microbiology, and the control of infectious diseases around the world. The goals of ISID are to: increase the knowledge base of infectious diseases through research and enhance the professional development of individuals in this discipline; extend and transfer technical expertise in infectious diseases and microbiology; and create and foster partnerships for the control and cost-effective management of infectious diseases around the world. Through its International Journal of Infectious Diseases, the Society provides a forum for scientific papers on the diseases that are most prevalent in low-income nations.
Brookline, Massachusetts, USA
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International Women's Health Coalition (IWHC)
The International Women's Health Coalition (IWHC) promotes and protects the sexual and reproductive rights and health (SRRH) of all women and young people by helping to develop effective health and population policies, programs, and funding. Social and economic justice, the foundations of global well-being, can only be achieved by ensuring women's human rights, health, and equality. Accordingly, IWHC envisions a world in which women are equally and effectively engaged in decisions that concern their sexual and reproductive rights and health and can experience a healthy and satisfying sexual life free from discrimination, coercion, and violence, free to make informed choices about childbearing with access to the information and services they need to enhance and protect their health. IWHC advocates and motivates social, political and corporate leaders to enact policy and provide funding for women’s rights and health. They provide grants and forge professional partnerships with local leaders to secure women’s rights and health, mobilizing women and young people, enabling them to take action to secure their rights, health and well-being. IWHC analyzes and communicates facts and path breaking ideas for policy improvement to powerbrokers, health professionals, influentials and other advocates. IWHC’s impact is local and global – IWHC has helped build over 75 organizations in 10 countries that model effective programs, advocate for supportive policies and hold governments accountable. IWHC has also produced and published ideas and strategies to make public health policies work for women and girls worldwide. 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, New York, USA
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Interplast
Interplast is a non-profit that has provided free, life-changing surgery for children and adults with clefts, hand injuries, and disabling burns. 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. Interplast's programs provide corrective surgery and related care for the world’s poor. Over time, Interplast refined its mission to better empower people around the world. While continuing to provide direct patient care by sending medical volunteers overseas, the practice of bringing patients to the United States was eventually phased out as medical infrastructures in developing countries improved. Surgical Outreach Centers are the most efficient, sustainable and cost-effective way to provide life-changing surgery. And, in just the last five years, they have enabled Interplast to double the number of surgeries performed annually with only a 26 percent increase in spending. Interplast is now able to reach more patients than ever before and provide them the safe, high-quality care they need to restore their lives to their greatest potential.
Mountain View, California, USA
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Israel AIDS Task Force (IATF)
Israel AIDS Task Force (IATF) is the leading organization working to halt the spread of HIV/AIDS in Israel. IATF aims to combat the spread of HIV/AIDS with prevention and awareness programs targeting the general public as well as specific social groups, providing social, health, and psychological services for those already living with HIV and AIDS. The IATF educates people about proper protection, encourages testing, provides treatment and support for those already living with HIV, and combats the stigma and stereotypes associated with HIV/AIDS in an attempt to change national and public policy.
Tel-Aviv, Israel
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IVUmed
IVUmed is a non-profit education and membership organization collaborating with Asian, African and Latin American medical professionals and organizations to provide the training necessary for physicians and nurses to meet their communities’ surgical needs. IVUmed is committed to making quality urological care available to people worldwide with medical and surgical training.
IVUmed originally partnered with Interplast for pediatric urological reconstructive surgery, however many of the urological conditions addressed by IVUmed fell outside the scope of Interplast's mission. Therefore, IVUmed was founded to address the urological reconstructive needs of children. Over the years, IVUmed has refined its approach to address complications and problems stemming from the difficulties of doing complex urogenital reconstruction in resource-limited settings where nurses have limited education and pain management is poorly understood.
Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
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Jamkhed Comprehensive Rural Health Project (CRHP)
Jamkhed Comprehensive Rural Health Project (CRHP) is a non-profit that provides health care to rural communities with a comprehensive, community-based primary health care (CBPHC) approach. CRHP was developed on a three-tier approach: (1) community, during which a village agrees to participate and receive a CRHP training centre; (2) CRHP’s Mobile Health Team (MHT) will act as a liaison between the village and CRHP; and (3) a hospital and training centre is located in the compound. The training center is where local, national and international training in community-based health and development takes place, and where trainees and village health workers (VHW) are housed. These non-profit hospitals provide many medical and surgical referral care services for the population of the project villages, even drawing in patients from miles outside of the Jamkhed Blocks.
Jamkhed, Maharashtra, India
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Joint Clinical Research Centre (JCRC)
The Joint Clinical Research Centre (JCRC) serves as a national AIDS research center as a partnership between Makerere University's School of Medicine and Uganda's Ministries of Health and Defense. The Center pioneered the use of antiretroviral drugs (ARVs) in Uganda in 1996, and has cumulatively provided ARVs to more than 10,000 clients, making JCRC the largest provider of ARVs in sub-Saharan Africa. With USG, JCRC supports a full package of quality ARV treatment in 14 sites around Uganda. This JCRC-USAID collaboration is being implemented under the "Timetable for Regional Scale up of ARV Therapy" or "TREAT" program. The program is designed to provide high quality, low cost ARV services to over 60,000 Ugandans living with AIDS over the next three years.
Kampala, Buganda, Uganda
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Kenya Network of Women with AIDS (KENWA)
Kenya Network of Women with AIDS (KENWA) is an NGO membership organization founded by women to enable other women living with HIV/AIDS to share their experiences. KENWA realizes that women are marginalized and therefore more vulnerable to HIV and AIDS, so they focus their work on women living with HIV/AIDS and infected and affected children in Kenya. The organization ultimately aims at empowering people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWH) by challenging stigmas and confronting discrimination and isolation. KENWA plays an active role in spearheading and influencing development of policies that address stigma and discrimination by educating members on their rights and empowering them with skills to lobby policy makers.
Nairobi, Kenya
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Kiwanis International and UNICEF
Kiwanis International is a global non-profit organization of volunteers dedicated to changing the world, one child and one community at a time. Kiwanis clubs and members have contributed more than $80 million toward the global elimination of iodine deficiency disorders (IDD), the leading preventable cause of mental retardation. Kiwanis, partnered with UNICEF, is working to raise funds to help eliminate the problem of iodine deficiency by supporting salt iodization, testing and monitoring, and community outreach and education. Kiwanis’ volunteers are changing the world through service to children and communities, and members help shelter the homeless, feed the hungry, mentor the disadvantaged, and care for the sick. They develop youth leaders, build playgrounds, raise funds for pediatric research, and much more.
Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
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Kohsar Welfare and Educational Society (KWES)
The Kohsar Welfare and Educational Society (KWES) is a volunteer-driven, non-political national organization working at the grass-roots level with a participatory approach to community-based organizations. KWES has implemented a number of projects on different levels and fields with the financial assistance of both national and international donor organizations. KWES focuses its work on rehabilitation, skill development, poverty alleviation, building infrastructure, child care and protection, human resource development, sanitation and clean water supplies, and health and environmental education. KWES’ mission is to strengthen the power of the people and enable them to participate in all decision making processes for the justified distribution of resources.
Muzaffarabad, Azad Kashmir, Pakistan
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Kripa Foundation
The Kripa Foundation is the largest NGO in India, affiliated with the Union Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, working among people afflicted with chemical dependency and HIV Infection. Kripa Foundation has evolved as a module of non-discriminating, supportive community living that empowers people to bring about a lifestyle change. KRIPA lays emphasis on the need to study risk perception, effectively assisting in minimizing harm and providing the training necessary to succeed. Today, Kripa is at the forefront in facilitating training in chemical dependency, rehabilitation and HIV/AIDS, offering a broad spectrum of services to the community, law enforcement agencies, educational institutions and other academic institutions that are involved in human services. Kripa empowers those afflicted by offering such services: care, treatment and support; interface within communities through intervention modules; development and implementation of successful training modules; research in all aspects of service; and maintaining international standards of service. Kripa’s strength lies in the eastern disciplines and facilitating lifestyle change, which it propagates in all its centers as Basic Therapy to cope with life’s stresses including addiction, which is an outward manifestation of the turmoil within an individual. It is this inner healing which is enabling Kripa to realize its dream of becoming a global presence.
Bandra (W), Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
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LAPO Development Foundation (LDF)
The LAPO Development Foundation (LDF) is an NGO and community development microfinance institution that focuses on the empowerment of the poor and vulnerable. LDF works to provide access to health care facilities, conduct training and research, and provide advocacy services to enhance the educational quality and health among women and youth in target communities. LDF implements programs geared towards enabling LAPO members and communities to fully understand the processes and structures that cause and sustain poverty and gender inequality. By awarding credit and implementing social and health intervention programmes across the county, LDF is gradually addressing deep-rooted issues that address the intensity of poverty. LDF also implements diverse intervention programs to promote good health among community members, especially those battling HIV/AIDS.
Benin City, Edo, Nigeria
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L’Association de Recherché, de Communication et d’Accompagnement à domicile des personnes vivant avec le VIH/SIDA (ARCAD / SIDA)
ARCAD /SIDA is one of the first HIV control associations established in Mali. Its objective has been to develop comprehensive care and treatment of HIV infections by enhancing access to both through research and communication. The organization’s approach is community-based, working on the ground with HIV/AIDS infected people and their relatives to improve their medical, psychological and socio-economic care and support. This approach places the person living with HIV and AIDS at the centre of all care and treatment.
Bamako, Mali
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Layton Rahmatulla Benevolent Trust (LRBT)
Layton Rahmatulla Benevolent Trust (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 for all. Through its purpose-built and appropriately-equipped hospitals, LRBT provides comprehensive eye-care, ranging from simple refraction to the most advanced retinal surgery and corneal transplants. LRBT has highly skilled doctors complemented with cutting edge technology. Every patient is treated with compassion and dignity, and every day, thousands of patients visit our 16 hospitals for treatments.
Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan
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Lutheran Aid to Medicine in Bangladesh (LAMB)
Lutheran Aid to Medicine in Bangladesh (LAMB) is an NGO providing health services to local communities. The mission of LAMB is to serve God by serving the poor and under-privileged, especially women and children, of Bangladesh. LAMB has now extended its services to include high quality training for third parties in the health area, and because of its access to a large archive of health and socio-economic data, LAMB is increasingly called upon to assist in research programs, as well.
Parbatipur, Dinajpur, Bangladesh
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Maharogi Sew Samiti (MSS)
Maharogi Sew Samiti (MSS) is a nonprofit organisation in Central India helping people to enhance their livelihood capabilities through self-discovery, empowering them to give back to the society. MSS has a firm belief in providing assistance and education, not just charity, to ‘social outcasts’ who have lost a sense of self-respect. MSS gives opportunities to people so that they may discover their worth and hidden abilities, thus eliminating their dependence on others. MSS works on a wide spectrum of activities, such as provision of basic healthcare and rehabilitation, development of land and water resources, enhancement of incomes and sustainable livelihoods, imparting formal and vocational education, and sensitization of youth on environmental and socioeconomic issues.
Anandwan-Warora, Maharashtra, India
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Malaria Consortium Africa (MCA)
Malaria Consortium Africa (MCA) is a non-profit working in partnership with communities, health systems, government and non-government agencies, academic institutions and local and international organizations to ensure safe delivery of effective health services. MCA works to secure access to care, prevention, and treatment of malaria and other communicable diseases for groups who are most at risk. MCA has caused a difference in reducing both morbidity and mortality rates of malaria throughout a number of interventions that interrupt the malaria transmission cycle. Beyond malaria, MCA works to control various childhood illnesses, with a new focus on treating and preventing neglected tropical diseases. MCA is continuously innovative, increasing the impact of malaria and disease control programs so that they benefit all communities, including delivery in the most challenging environments, and setting the standards that others now follow.
Kampala, Uganda
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Mangalore Medical Relief Society (MMRS)
The Mangalore Medical Relief Society (MMRS) thrives to deliver WHO standard of healthcare services to the less fortunate in the Dakshina Kannada (Karnataka, India) and surrounding districts. MMRS’ propelling principle aims to reduce wasteful expenditures, enhance the efficacy of hospital systems, increase the effectiveness of budget utilization, and reach advances in the field of medicine to be able to adequately provide the poor in the west coast of Karnataka state in India. Over the years, MMRS has worked closely with all the stakeholders and has facilitated the establishment of the cardiology, cardiothoracic, neurology, urology, neurosurgery, pediatric surgery in the District Wenlock Hospital in Mangalore (DWH). The vision of MMRS is to promote and facilitate various specialties in the medical field with the objective of bringing affordable medical relief to the poor and the needy without discrimination.
Mangalore, Karnataka, India
Mano a Mano International Partners
Mano a Mano International Partners work to create partnerships with impoverished Bolivian communities to improve health and increase economic well-being. Mano a Mano seeks to address the lack of access to medical care and extreme poverty in rural Bolivia. 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. The organization's accomplishments include building an infrastructure for health care and education and economic development in Bolivia that is constructed, supported, and ultimately run by Bolivians.
Mendota Heights, Minnesota, USA
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MAP International
MAP International is a non-profit Christian organization working to save lives by partnering with over 300 organizations, agencies and medical missions around the world. MAP maintains a commitment to diversity and equal opportunity in the fulfillment of its global mission. MAP promotes the total health - physical, economic, social, emotional and spiritual - of 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 distributing knowledge about health threats like HIV/AIDS and establishing community directed health education and training. MAP ultimately envisions a world in which individuals, families and communities have the hope and capacity to build conditions that promote Total Health.
Brunswick, Georgia, USA
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Médecins sans Frontières (MSF)
Médecins sans Frontières (MSF) is an international humanitarian aid organization that provides emergency medical assistance to populations in more than 70 countries. MSF works in rehabilitation of hospitals and dispensaries, and provides vaccination programs and water sanitation projects. MSF also works in remote health care centers, providing training to local personnel with the objective of rebuilding health structures to acceptable levels utilizing the local community members. MSF also addresses issues of basic human rights that arise in their fieldwork by confronting those responsible and pressuring them through mobilization of the internal communities and informing the public, all the while remaining neutral and independent of local governments to prevent compromise or manipulation of MSF’s relief activities.
Geneva, Switzerland
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Medical Knowledge Institute (MKI)
The Medical Knowledge Institute (MKI) is a non-profit healthcare education and healthcare information organization dedicated to the premise that healthcare is a basic human right. MKI 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. The MKI’s Health Information Centres offer a variety of training courses which impart different life skills and provide contacts with relevant support and information, creating a critical mass of trainers who will continue to empower their local communities.
Oostvoome, Netherlands
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MediSend International
MediSend International is a nonprofit, humanitarian organization supporting under-resourced hospitals in developing countries with a multi-dimensional approach to improving community health. Medisend’s mission includes education, training, technical support and management technologies for Biomedical Equipment Repair, as well as the distribution of life-saving medical supplies and biomedical equipment in long-term partnership and emergency relief programs. MediSend develops and manages long-term medical aid programs and emergency-disaster relief campaigns. It is essential to remember that training healthcare professionals is not like providing medical supplies that are used once and gone. Rather, individuals are being given a set of skills they will use for a professional lifetime for the benefit of their communities.
Dallas, Texas, USA
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Mexican Institute of Family and Population Research (IMIFAP)
The Mexican Institute of Family and Population Research (IMIFAP) is a non-profit that has developed more than 40 programs which have improved the lives of people in Mexico, Latin America, the Caribbean, USA, Greece and Uzbekistan. IMIFAP believes that combating poverty is necessary to expand freedoms and individual capacities, and by developing personal skills, social and psychological barriers can be overcome and eliminated. IMIFAP teaches individuals to express their opinions, think independently, and make informed decisions. IMIFAP’s programs facilitate personal development and help create successful schools, law-abiding communities, accessible health services, and more cost-effective and democratic participation. IMIFAP’s mission has been to create and implement programs which contribute to sustainable human development in order to allow individuals to take control of their own health, productivity, and livelihood.
Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
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Middle East Cancer Consortium (MECC)
Middle East Cancer Consortium’s (MECC) objective as an NGO is to reduce the incidence and impact of cancer in the Middle East through the support and solicitation of collaborative research. One of MECC’s major activities has been the Cancer Registry Project (CRP), with aims to support population-based cancer registries within MECC members and develop linkages among them. The CRP has emphasized from its inception the importance of high-quality data and data standardization and accuracy, and coverage that enables international comparisons of cancer incidence. Another program is the Small Grants Programme, which enables clinicians and scientists within MECC signatories to submit research proposals for funding, which are then peer-reviewed for their scientific merit; proposals must then involve collaboration between participating MECC member. MECC also has a Palliative Care Project (PCP) that strives for effective management of pain and other distressing disease-related problems. Palliative care practitioners strive to enhance all aspects of the patient's quality of life, including physical, psychosocial and spiritual. Palliative care employs a team-driven multidisciplinary approach that incorporates community resources and addresses the needs of the patient's family, offering an emotional support system intended to ease the tremendous difficulties involved with end-of-life care.
Haifa, Israel
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Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, Liberia
The Ministry of Health and Social Welfare’s mission in Liberia is to reform the health sector to efficiently deliver quality health and social welfare services. The Ministry is dedicated to equitable, accessible and sustainable health promotion and the provision of comprehensive and affordable health care. The Ministry’s vision is improved health and social welfare status and equity in health, therefore becoming a model of post-conflict recovery. Enlightened leadership, sustained efforts, coherent prioritization and generous external support are needed to materialize this vision. The Ministry plans to do this by taking stock of the experience earned in other countries, striking productive partnerships with committed stakeholders, giving priority to Primary Health Care in the allocation of available resources, continuously studying events so that appropriate measures can be taken, giving attention to equity, particularly concerning persons in difficult circumstances, and adopting realistic and sustainable approaches in order to make effective use of available resources.
Monrovia, Montserrado, Liberia
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Naandi Foundation
The Naandi Foundation is one of the largest and fastest growing social sector organizations in India working to make poverty history. Naandi’s work has 3 broad sectors: child rights, safe drinking water and sustainable livelihoods. Naandi takes up action researches and other field based trials to check out innovations and their potential to positively influence public health policies. Naandi’s ideology revolves around building sustainable models within the social sector that deliver critical services efficiently and equitably to underserved communities. Naandi’s mission is to be a credible organization that upholds the values in every activity it undertakes, facilitating public-private partnerships in all development interventions so that state governments, the corporate sector and civil society can work together. Naandi strives to be a leading non-profit creating replicable, sustainable, outcome-driven innovation that works to eradicate poverty and enhance the quality of life of the marginalized and less-privileged by addressing issues of hunger, quality education, and drinking water and livelihood opportunities.
Banjara Hills, Hyderabad, India
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National Institute of Hygiene and Environment – Vietnam
The National Institute of Hygiene and Environment in Vietnam, along with the Integrated Management of Childhood Illness Strategy (IMCI), integrates active young patients and combines multiple elements of several prevention programs. Some of these programs are for: nutrition; malaria control programs, diarrhea and respiratory tract infections; and other diseases common in children. The implementation of IMCI is a combination of technical guidance and problem resolutions at district and grassroots levels. This implementation requires the participation of medical staff at all levels of health workers and grassroots members of the community it serves.
Hanoi, Vietnam
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National Rural Support Programme (NRSP)
The National Rural Support Programme (NRSP) is a non-profit working as an advocate for the poor and bringing the concerns of marginalized men and women to public consciousness and affecting policies that bring the poor into mainstream economy. NRSP's mandate is to alleviate poverty by harnessing people's potential, undertaking development activities in Pakistan. NRSP's vision is manifested in expanding opportunities for income-generation, community schools that provide quality education, community-owned and managed infrastructure schemes, improved agricultural productivity, and higher returns for labor. From the widest perspective the vision is manifested as the first stages of a transformation of civil society. The main objective of NRSP is to foster a countrywide network of grassroots level organizations, enabling rural communities to plan, implement and manage developmental activities and programmes for the purpose of ensuring productive employment, alleviation of poverty and improvement in the quality of life.
Islamabad, Punjab, Pakistan
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Oddisi Research Laboratory
Oddisi Research Laboratory is an Indian organization working to cure and prevent malaria and malaria-related illnesses with herbal remedies.
Bhubaneswar, Orissa, India
Operation Smile, Inc.
Operation Smile, Inc. is an international NGO whose medical volunteers repair childhood facial deformities while building public and private partnerships that advocate for sustainable healthcare systems. Operation Smile brings together the latest, most effective practices and training to deliver safe surgery to remote places where it is typically not available in developing countries. Since 1982, more than 100,000 children have been treated by thousands of volunteers in Central and South America, Africa, Middle East, Eastern Europe and Asia, with thousands of healthcare professionals trained globally. Operation Smile will commemorate its 25th Anniversary with a year-long, multi-faceted series of initiatives to promote sustainability and capacity-building among its twenty-five partner countries.
Norfolk, Virginia, USA
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Our Bodies Ourselves (OBOS)
Our Bodies Ourselves (OBOS), also known as the Boston Women’s Health Book Collective (BWHBC), is a nonprofit, public interest women’s health group focused on education and advocacy. OBOS has inspired the women’s health movement by inspiring and empowering women to become engaged in the political aspects of sustaining good health for themselves and their communities. OBOS provides clear, truthful information about health, sexuality and reproduction from a feminist and consumer perspective, vigorously advocating for women's health by challenging the institutions and systems that block women from full control over their own bodies and devalue their lives.
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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Pakistan National Forum on Women's Health (PNFWH)
Pakistan National Forum on Women's Health (PNFWH) is an NGO dedicated to improving the quality of life for women regardless of race, creed or economic status. PNFWH employs a holistic approach to women’s health whose basic objective is to provide equal opportunities and rights for women so that they may attain their full potential in society. In order to achieve this, healthy minds, bodies and spirits must be a priority. PNFWH’s objectives are generating political commitment and support for reducing maternal mortality and increasing awareness in communities. PNFWH’s activities include advocacy to create cross-sector sensitization on maternal mortality issues, motivating communities to value women's lives and regard them as equal human beings, and targeting education programs centered on major causes of maternal mortality.
Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan
Palestine Children's Relief Fund (PCRF)
The Palestine Children's Relief Fund (PCRF) is a registered non-profit established in 1991 to address the medical and humanitarian crisis facing Palestinians in the Middle East. Since then, it has expanded to help suffering children from other Middle Eastern nations based on their medical needs. PCRF locates, sponsors and runs volunteer medical missions to the Middle East in adult and pediatric cardiac surgery, pediatric cardiology, plastic and reconstructive surgery, maxillofacial surgery, pediatric urology, ophthalmology, vascular surgery, pediatric orthopedic surgery, occupational therapy, and other specialties. The PCRF also helps to improve the quality of medical care in the Middle East by sending medical equipment and supplies to the West Bank and Gaza Strip. The PCRF has also trained Palestinian surgeons and sent American medical personnel to the region to treat difficult cases and train medical personnel in country.
Kent, Ohio, USA
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Panzi Hospital
The Panzi Hospital was established in 1999 in response to the atrocities being committed on Bukavu populations during the "war of liberation" in 1996. Access to medical care was severely compromised and the death rate among the population – specifically the maternal death rate – rose sharply. For women who lives have been traumatized and brutalized by some of the most inhumane, degrading and painful acts of gender-based violence, Panzi Hospital is a refuge. Following the war, a lot of land was given by the Congo to the 8th CEPAC, a portion of which contained two old buildings that were rehabilitated to start the Panzi center. Subsequent buildings followed, giving rise to the present campus, providing services in obstetrics, gynecology, pediatrics, internal medicine, general and specialized surgery, ophthalmology, dental and nutritional counseling and services, and provides care, counseling and a safe haven for victims of sexual violence. Panzi hospital has its own pharmacy and laboratory, with radiology, ultrasonography and endoscopy units.
Bukavu, South Kivu Provence, Democratic Republic of Congo
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Partners in Health (PIH)
Partners in Health (PIH) is an NGO dedicated to providing the highest level of clinical care possible while alleviating the social and economic burdens of poverty that create obstacles to health. PIH coordinates innovative programs to combat AIDS and women's health problems, providing tuberculosis treatment projects and global health policy initiatives. PIH’s mission is based on solidarity, not just charity alone. PIH is developing a model of community-based care that has been successfully used to treat multi-drug resistant TB (MDR/TB) in the slums of Lima, Peru, and has delivered anti-retroviral treatment (ART) for AIDS in rural settlements. The five fundamental principles of PIH’s work are: access to primary health care; free health care and education for the poor; community partnerships; addressing basic social and economic needs; and serving the poor through the public sector. Through service, training, advocacy, and research, PIH seeks to raise the standard of care for everyone.
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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PATH
PATH is an international nonprofit organization that creates sustainable, culturally relevant solutions enabling communities worldwide to break longstanding cycles of poor health. PATH collaborates with diverse public- and private-sector partners to provide appropriate health technologies and vital strategies that change the way people think. The mission of PATH is to improve the health of people around the world by advancing technologies, strengthening health systems, and encouraging healthy behaviors by developing solutions with the communities who will use them, then working with a spectrum of partners toward impact that is widespread and lasting. PATH envisions a world where health is within reach for everyone. To do this, PATH focuses on solutions for emerging and epidemic diseases, health technologies for low-resource settings designed by the people who will use them, safer childbirth and healthier children, health equity for women, and the basic security of vaccines for women and children around the world.
Seattle, Washington, USA
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Peace Child Liberia
Peace Child Liberia is a children’s rights group which has worked successfully with UNICEF Liberia in setting up the Liberian Children’s Parliament. It aims to get young people involved – going door-to-door – talking to youth on the danger of HIV/AIDS, which is prevalent among Liberian youth. This project was not donor funded. It was sponsored by Liberia’s former first Lady, Madam Jewel H. Taylor and donations from school children.
Monrovia, Montserrado, Liberia
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People to People (P2P)
People to People (P2P) is a non-profit NGO with no political, ethnic or religious affiliations. It is comprised of people armed with compassion to bring hope to those who find themselves in hopeless situations brought about by various determinants. P2P is globally emerging as a bridge to the Ethiopian Diaspora, developing strategies to provide support not just in health and education, but in other sectors of social and economic development as well. P2P is dedicated to developing potential through creative programmes; expediting human resource improvement, welding theory and practice by creating highly qualified and effective professionals; coordinating and facilitating a massive infusion of needed resources, knowledge and skills for institutional transformation; establishing and maintaining a network forum that facilitates the sharing of best practices and information as well as transferring skills and technology to Ethiopians; promoting indigenous and authentic solutions to our challenges; partnering with local and international institutions to garner support for local programs and economic development; and promoting awareness on the benefits of preventive health care services.
Morehead, Kentucky, USA
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Philani Child Health and Nutrition Project (Philani)
The Philani Child Health and Nutrition Project (Philani) is a community-based NGO operating in South Africa. Philani was established in 1979 to provide basic child health and nutrition services to a community ignored and neglected by the health authorities of the Apartheid government. Philani has responded to the needs expressed by its communities by offering education and training to women; developing income-generating projects; providing outreach and home-based nutrition and child health programmes; instituting a mothers-to-be programme; supporting an OVC programme; developing a dental project; and starting a support programme for HIV positive mothers and children. Philani's philosophy is very simple – help mothers to help themselves. By working with mothers to educate them in the basics of nutrition and health, Philani empowers them to take initiative and help ensure not only the health and well-being of their children and themselves, but also of their community.
Khayelitsha, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
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Plan International in Tanzania
Plan International is an independent NGO dedicated to children’s development, operating with no religious, political or governmental affiliations. Plan's vision is a world in which all children can realize their full potential and live in a society that respects people's rights and dignity. Plan aims to achieve lasting improvements in the quality of children in developing countries through a process that unites people across cultures. Plan hopes to add meaning and value to their lives by enabling deprived children, their families and their communities to meet their basic needs, increasing their ability to participate in and benefit from society; building relationships to increase understanding and unity among peoples of different cultures and countries; and promoting the rights and interests of the world's children.
Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania
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Planet Care Global Health Access Program (GHAP)
Planet Care Global Health Access Program (GHAP) is a non-profit organization working to improve the well-being of communities in crisis through the provision of public health services, capacity building, and resource enhancement. GHAP is a consortium of students, activists, public health professionals, university faculty, and technical specialists from various fields who volunteer their time to support local indigenous organizations. GHAP’s primary focus is on ethnic minority areas within Burma and along Burma's borders, but their volunteers have worked all over the world. GHAP assists communities not adequately served by large-scale traditional NGOs, who are often limited by bureaucratic and political constraints. GHAP emphasize the development of skills, knowledge, and local resources that are essential to build capacity and self-sufficiency. GHAP is primarily a volunteer organization, with no office, vehicles, or other infrastructure to support, so 100% of donations can be used to directly fund program costs.
Berkeley, California, USA
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Population Media Center (PMC)
The Population Media Center (PMC) strives to improve the health and well-being of people around the world through the use of entertainment-education strategies in which characters evolve into positive role models and influence positive behavior changes. PMC’s mission is to collaborate with the mass media and other organizations worldwide to bring about stabilization of human population numbers at a level that can be sustained by the world’s natural resources, lessening the harmful impact of humanity on the earth’s natural environment. The emphasis of the organization’s work is to educate people about the benefits of small families, encourage the use of effective family planning methods, elevate women’s status and promote gender equity. PMC uses a specialized methodology for creating serialized dramas that are effective in changing attitudes and behavior related to people’s health and well-being. PMC’s long-running serialized dramas are written and produced locally to be country specific and culturally sensitive.
Shelburne, Vermont, USA
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Population Services International
Population Services International is a leading global health non-profit organization with programs that target HIV, malaria, child survival, and reproductive health. PSI works in partnership within the public and private sectors, harnessing the power of the markets and providing life-saving products, clinical services and behavioral changes that empower the world's most vulnerable populations to lead healthier lives. The mission of PSI is to improve the health of poor and vulnerable people in the developing world, principally through social marketing of family planning, health products and services, and health communications. PSI’s products and services are sold at subsidized prices rather than given away in order to encourage commercial sector involvement.
Washington, DC, USA
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Project Concern International (PCI)
Project Concern International (PCI) is a non-profit, global health organization working to bring better health and hope to children and families living in poverty in Asia, Africa, and the Americas. PCI’s mission is preventing disease, improving community health, and promoting sustainable development. Today, PCI works in vulnerable communities creating long-term change by helping people help themselves. PCI is committed to community-based health and development programs by empowering local communities, organizations, and networks and equipping them with the tools and resources they need to deliver and sustain effective programs, PCI forms partnerships with local organizations that emphasize mutual respect, two-way and innovative learning methods, and the application of new knowledge and skills.
San Diego, California, USA
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Project HOPE
Project HOPE’s mission is to achieve 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, with a focus on children. Their 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. Over the past five decades, Project HOPE has demonstrated its ability to develop and permanently institute long-term solutions to pressing health problems, the true essence of helping people help themselves. Project HOPE remains as committed as ever to addressing the world’s new health threats by playing a leadership role forging new alliances among those on the frontlines of health and together seek new solutions.
Millwood, Virginia, USA
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Proyecto Victoria
Proyecto Victoria is a therapeutic community providing treatment to drug and alcohol addicts with a view to restoring their physical, social psychological and spiritual health. Proyecto Victoria currently has two centers, one in Tegucigalpa and one in San Pedro Sula, where it cares for 150 young people in voluntary residential treatment lasting 6-9 months. Proyecto Victoria gives poor, young Honduran men who have addictions or are involved in gangs a second chance to rebuild their lives. Proyecto Victoria has established an innovative rehabilitation center within a therapeutic community that addresses every aspect of its patients’ well-being, from treatment and training followed by transition into a productive life. The program is unique in its integration of a chemical decontamination clinic and a permanent and constant system of qualification and training courses. The clinics provide recreational equipment and a gymnasium and actively involve the family in the rehabilitation process through playful activities, constant guidance in matters of health, peace, and coexistence, and education in values, and the opportunity for continuation of studies through distance learning.
Tegucigalpa, Francisco Morazán, Honduras
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Rape Crisis Heidelberg
Rape Crisis Heidelberg is a non-profit committed to helping survivors of rape and abuses overcome their trauma through counseling. Their vision is to provide an effective community services by raising awareness among schools, tertiary institutions, churches and the community at large of the consequences of rape, incest and domestic violence. Rape Crisis Heidelberg’s overall objectives are to provide immediate support after trauma so that the healing process can start immediately, helping survivors overcome trauma and become healthy, whole, functional people again. Facilitating a sharing of experiences provides healing and support, which empowers survivors of rape and abuse to break the cycle of violence and prevent re-occurrence. So that they may raise awareness in the community on the consequences of sexual violence, Rape Crisis Heidelberg equips volunteers with knowledge and effective capacity building skills. The Centre provides follow-up emergency care, universal access to PEP’s and treatment for pregnancy and STI’s, as well as long-term care, such as counselling, support and help with navigating the police and judicial system at an already stressful time for the survivor.
Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
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Red Cross Society of Uganda (URCS)
The Red Cross Society of Uganda (URCS) is a voluntary relief society pursuing the goal of improving the health status of vulnerable and affected communities by reducing morbidity and mortality arising from common diseases and health emergencies. URCS implements five programs of: first aid; water and sanitation; blood donor recruitment; road safety and emergency health; and social mobilization for routine immunization of and for malaria control as well as HIV/AIDS programs. URCS is a leading humanitarian organization in Uganda, working with a number of partners in the execution of its mission. To improve the quality of life of the most vulnerable people in Uganda, URCS is an effective and efficient humanitarian organization.
Kampala, Uganda
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Right to Care
Right to Care is a non-profit that builds public- and private-sector capacity for the provision of antiretroviral therapy to HIV-positive individuals. Right to Care supports over 100 clinics and funds the care or treatment of over 100,000 HIV-positive individuals. Right to Care has a multi-pronged approach to the HIV epidemic: supporting the government’s HIV & AIDS programme through human resources, training, data management, and infrastructure; forming partnerships with the private sector and other NGOs to ensure the delivery of safe, effective, and affordable antiretroviral therapy; facilitating access to voluntary counseling and testing services; and training and supporting of private-sector doctors in the management of HIV & AIDS. Right to care believes that every individual should have access to quality medical services that prevent, treat, and manage HIV infection and associated diseases with access to quality clinical services.
Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa
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Ronald McDonald House Charities, Inc. (RMHC)
Ronald McDonald House Charities, Inc. (RMHC) has been creating, finding and supporting programs that directly improve the health and well being of children worldwide every year. RMHC’s core values include: focusing on the critical needs of children; staying true to 35 years of responsible stewardship; and operating with accountability and transparency. RMHC can help eliminate many of the barriers that prevent families of ill and injured children from getting the care their children need. RHMC is continually working to improve and expand core programs, developing new services to address the unique needs of the communities we serve.
Oak Brook, Illinois, USA
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Rosalynn Carter Institute for Caregiving (RCI)
The Rosalynn Carter Institute for Caregiving (RCI) was established in 1987 to enhance long-standing commitments to human development and mental health. RCI establishes local, state and national partnerships committed to building quality long-term, home and community- based services. RCI provides caregivers with effective supports, making investments that promote caregiver health, skills and resilience. The Carter Center has turned conventional wisdom on its head, and reminded the world that seemingly impossible obstacles can be overcome with the right combination of innovation, dedication and community involvement. The Carter Center has demonstrated the great strides that can be made despite seemingly insurmountable odds.
Americus, Georgia, USA
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Salvadoran Foundation for Health and Human Development (FUSAL)
Salvadoran Foundation for Health and Human Development (FUSAL) is a private, non-profit NGO channeling the experience and social responsibility to improve human development in solidarity with disadvantaged societies, making health and education programs more readily available. In the field, FUSAL executes a comprehensive program that addresses not only primary health and nutrition, but also sanitation, education on healthy lifestyles and access to food. Using innovative group and individual techniques that do not require reading or writing, their teams teach mothers and caregivers.
Antiguo Cuscatlán, Antiguo Cuscatlán, El Salvador
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Save the Children
Save the Children is a UK based charity organization for children. Their mission is to guarantee that the rights of every child are met - the right to health care, food, education, protection from all forms of abuse, neglect, exploitation and cruelty. Save the Children saves lives by expanding access to health care for children and mothers. The organization also works in partnership with governments and other organizations across the world to tackle the HIV/AIDS pandemic and to improve basic community health services. Save the Children’s vision is a world in which every child is ensured the right to survival, protection, development and participation. They provide a wide range of programs, including: training new mothers with prenatal care; supplying life-saving immunizations for young children; and improving literacy and nutrition for children living in rural poverty in the U.S.
Islington, London, United Kingdom
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School of Social Development and Public Policy, Beijing Normal University, China (SSDPP)
The School of Social Development and Public Policy, Beijing Normal University, China (SSDPP) works closely with the government in developing and improving the Medical Financial Assistance (MFA) program in China, which assists poor households in participating medical insurance programs and reimburses them for out-of-pocket medical expenses. In the past 10 years, SSDPP has proven its leading role in research, graduate studies, social and health program designs and policy development in China. They employ research tools such as policy assessment, cross-sectional and longitudinal surveys, randomized experimentations, and analyzation of administrative databases to conduct numerous empirical studies and produce publications as well as build comprehensive databases. SSDPP has established a strong network in China and has successful strategies to reach out to policy makers and public health practitioners and also to collaborate with Chinese governments in relevant fields such as health, education, finance, and civil affairs.
Haidian, Beijing, China
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Secretariat of the Pacific Community (Secretariat general de la communaute du Pacifique) (SPC)
The Secretariat of the Pacific Community (Secretariat general de la communaute du Pacifique) (SPC) is an international organisation that provides technical assistance, policy advice, training and research services to Pacific Islanders in areas such as health, human development, agriculture, forestry and fisheries. SPC’s vision for the region is to provide a secure and prosperous Pacific Community, whose people are educated and healthy and able to manage their resources in an economically, environmentally and socially sustainable way. This vision portrays an organisation that practices the principles of good governance and has the interests, needs and priorities of Pacific Island people at the heart of its programmes. SPC drives a vibrant and dynamic policy agenda based on its ability to analyze national, regional and global challenges, helping to shape a future that will benefit its member countries and territories, safeguarding their interests. This plays an important role in regional cooperation and development within the framework of collaboration with other regional and international organizations and the wider regional agenda, including the Pacific Plan. SPC’s mission is to help Pacific Island people position themselves to respond effectively to the challenges they face and make informed decisions about their future and the future they wish to leave for the generations that follow.
Noumea Cedex, Noumea, New Caledonia
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Self-Employed Women's Association (SEWA)
The Self-Employed Women’s Association (SEWA) is an organisation of poor, self-employed women who earn a living through their own labor or by starting small businesses. SEWA’s main goals are to organize women workers for full employment to obtain work security, income security, food security and social security (health care, child care and shelter). SEWA organizes women to ensure that every family obtains full employment that is autonomous and self-reliant, both individually and collectively, and also economically and intellectually satisfying. Through SEWA’s movement, women become strong and visible, and are able to contribute both socially and economically.
Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India
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Serve Train Educate People's Society (STEPS)
Serve Train Educate People's Society (STEPS) is a non-profit NGO committed to making living situations better for the rural and urban poor. STEPS supports preventive and curative health related programs with a special focus on children, adolescents, and women. STEPS is working to strengthen and expand HIV/AIDS & malaria awareness and advocacy services, integrating child health and education to the needy. STEPS creates organizations of women, promoting grass-root level initiation for their empowerment and safeguarding human rights for all, as well as the universal right to live with dignity. STEPS’s vision is to implement comprehensive health programs with special emphasis on diseases in rural and slum areas by establishing health centers, mobile clinics and conducting health and awareness camps.
Srikalahasti, Andhra Pradesh, India
Shanghai Institute of Hematology
The Shanghai Institute of Hematology consists of three basic research departments with a strong research team that centers on solving key scientific problems and integrating the latest scientific achievements of genomics into the medical practice. Over the past five years, a series of technological genomic platforms – large-scale genomic sequencing and genotyping, DNA mutation detection, biochips for transcriptome and proteome analysis, large-scale transgenics and knockout model organisms and bioinformatics – were implemented into the research. With malignant cancers such as leukemia for study, the Institute is focusing on the localization and identification of disease-related genes and the characterization of the regulatory pathways of their protein products. The Institute has also been developing molecular mechanism-based new methods of disease prevention, diagnosis, and treatment to improve health and advance the nation’s capability of prevention and cure of diseases.
Shanghai, China
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Shantou University China (STU) (and the Li Ka Shing Foundation)
Shantou University China (STU) (and the Li Ka Shing Foundation) is a key comprehensive university in the Guangdong Province. The University has widely conducted international academic exchanges and cooperatives, inviting world-class and well-known scholars to give lectures to the students, establishing close relationship with almost 20 international universities from such countries as USA, UK, France, Japan, Russia, Australia and Germany. With the implementation of the new paradigm of system-based, integrated teaching, the College offers English-immersed courses to educate students in clinical medicine, medical ethics, scientific research, and innovation to develop practical medical abilities with high overall competence and innovation. STU takes full advantage of the support from the Li Ka Shing Foundation and ties with overseas universities to strengthen academic exchange and cooperation. Distinguished scholars from first-class universities at home and abroad have been invited to present seminars or lectures to the University’s undergraduate students, so as to broaden their academic horizon.
Guangdong province, China
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Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital and Research Center (SKMCH & RC)
The Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital and Research Center (SKMCH & RC) is a state-of-the-art cancer centre and a project of the Shaukat Khanum Memorial Trust, a charitable organization established under the Societies Registration Act of Pakistan. SKMCH & RC’s mission is to act 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 and to educate health care professionals and the public and perform research into the causes and treatment of cancer. Equipped to conduct molecular, cellular and genetic studies, the lab is involved in trying to gain information about genetic and environmental risk factors for common cancers through combined epidemiological and basic science studies. Research at SKMCH&RC is focused on trying to develop a better understanding of cancer and finding the best way to treat and manage patients in a developing country. The aim is to create a bridge between the laboratory and clinic through translational studies to improve diagnosis, management and prognosis for our patients.
Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan
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Sihanouk Hospital Center of HOPE
The Sihanouk Hospital Center of HOPE is a non-profit whose mission is to provide a center for the further education and clinical training of medical professionals, delivering 24-hour, high-quality, free medical care for the poor and disadvantaged in Cambodia. By cultivating the next generation of health-sector human resources, modeling and scaling up innovative treatment approaches, promoting universal access to health care, and strengthening health systems, the Center of HOPE saves individual lives and demonstrates that through leadership and ingenuity a single institution can play an instrumental role in rebuilding a shattered national health care system and provide a foundation upon which other development goals—such as economic growth, educational advancement, and long-term empowerment—can be achieved. The Center of HOPE began HIV treatment the year it opened, forming an HIV patient support group and extending treatment to people living with HIV/AIDS in its patient cohort when PLHIV were stigmatized and treatment resources were limited. The Center of HOPE has been committed to overcoming barriers to treatment by advancing a strategy that combines outreach and awareness-building activities at the community level, with the provision of free medical treatment. Through its nation-wide training and capacity-building initiatives, the Center of HOPE has played a leading role in re-building human resources in Cambodia’s health sector. Equally significant is the Center of HOPE’s contribution to health systems through its Capacity Building Initiative, which has provided public sector hospitals throughout the country with intensive, institutional-level mentoring geared at replicating the Center of HOPE’s high quality of care.
Phnom Penh, Cambodia
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Smile Train
Smile Train is a non-profit dedicated to cleft lip and palate reconstructions. Smile Train recognized that clefts are not just a medical problem, but also a social one. Children born with clefts are shunned by societies, sometimes even by their own families. They have problems getting the proper nutrition that they need because of the physical malformation of their lips and palates. Smile Train educates local doctors, who are then funded and encouraged to do as many surgeries as possible at the highest level of safety and quality. Children and adults receive the surgery that they need, rather than having to wait for a Western doctor’s two-week vacation, for which they may not even make the list. It has also been found that the quality of surgery is higher when a local doctor performs because they are more familiar with the surgeries and perform them more often than a doctor doing it only one or two weeks a year. Smile Train is leading the way for nonprofits to empower locals to change their own community, and the ripple effects of this model are far-reaching. The procedure completely transforms the lives of children who would have never gone to school or married, all of which are now more probable. Smile Train empowers doctors and radically changes families, all of which ultimately create the foundation for completely changed communities, and of course, a better world.
New York, New York, USA
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Society for Nutrition, Education and Health Action (SNEHA)
The Society for Nutrition, Education and Health Action (SNEHA) was founded by a group of doctors and social workers who dedicate their energy, expertise and resources to ensure quality nutrition, education and the health of women and children. SNEHA impacts the quality of care and influences urban health policies through innovative solutions to problems in nutrition, education and health in urban communities. SNEHA builds sustainable and replicable models of intervention and partnerships that empower women to change their lives and those around them. SNEHA works to empower women and slum communities to be catalysts of change by working in close partnerships with existing systems. SNEHA has worked with over 30 health facilities and more than 1000 people to improve the health and survival of mothers and newborns in underprivileged communities in Mumbai through effective community action and quality, standardized health care.
Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
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Stop TB Partnership
The Stop TB Partnership is 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 the goal of eliminating TB as a public health problem. Stop TB is a global movement accelerating social and political action to stop the unnecessary spread of TB around the world. In order to achieve its mission and make the vision a reality, the Stop TB Partnership has set goals to interrupt TB transmission. By increasing access to an accurate diagnosis and, therefore, effective treatments, Stop TB can increase the availability, affordability and quality of anti-TB drugs. From humble beginnings, the Stop TB Initiative has evolved into a broad Stop TB Global Partnership, involving those organizations and individuals committed to short- and long-term measures required to control and eventually eliminate TB as a global public health problem using mechanisms that have enabled the Stop TB Partnership to expand, carry forward work plans, and support countries in their efforts to accelerate action against TB.
Geneva, Switzerland
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Surgical Implant Generation Network (SIGN)
The Surgical Implant Generation Network (SIGN) supports trauma surgeons in developing nations who have committed their lives to serving the injured poor. Despite many obstacles, SIGN surgeons often work with limited hospital resources, overcrowded wards, and at times a lack of pay and support from health administrations. Equipped with orthopedic training and instrumentation, SIGN surgeons can provide quality fracture care for those who desperately need it at little or no cost to the patient. It is SIGN’s vision that through their network of surgeons, all people will have the opportunity to receive modern surgical treatment, avoiding future disability. Currently, SIGN engineers are designing new implants to address a broader range of fractures in the femur and tibia.
Richland, Washington, USA
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Sustainable Science Institute (SSI)
The Sustainable Science Institute (SSI) is an international non-profit dedicated to developing scientific research capacity in areas with pressing health problems. SSI believes that the human condition can be improved by the appropriate use of science, knowledge, and technology. SSI’s work is based on the premise that global health relies on biomedical scientists and public health workers who can recognize and resolve infectious diseases at the local level. SSI is in a unique position to respond to the needs of these scientists and health professionals, having built their mission of developing scientific research capacity in areas with public health problems around the understanding that they have the ability - and the responsibility - to confront and manage infectious diseases in their countries, but that they lack the necessary tools.
Berkeley, California, USA
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Swargiya Dr. Yamuna Prasad Singh Sewa Nidhi
Swargiya Dr. Yamuna Prasad Singh Sewa Nidhi is a registered society (NGO) in India helping lepers and patients with cataracts, and also in charge of giving out free hepatitis B vaccines and providing health services to the rural and urban poor in the Pirpainti region of India.
Bhagalpur, Bihar, India
Swinfen Charitable Trust
The Swinfen Charitable Trust aims to assist the 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, allowing practitioners to access a panel of over 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.
Wingham, Canterbury, Kent, United Kingdom
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Tan Ux'Il
Tan Ux'Il is a bold, innovative organization that has worked for the last ten years to provide access to sexual and reproductive heath (SRH) information and services to adolescents and young people throughout the northern Petén region of Guatemala. Tan Ux’Il is organized with the objective of contributing to the reduction of unintended pregnancies among adolescents and counteracting the spread of STIs and HIV/AIDS. Their strategic objectives are: improving accessibility to services for sexual and reproductive health for adolescents; creating friendly spaces that provide guidance, advocacy, products and services specializing in sexual and reproductive health for adolescents; influencing the authorities and decision makers for the positioning of SSR and the access to sexual and reproductive health of adolescents and young adults on the basis of rights without discrimination and gender equity; and contributing to youth empowerment and leadership as builders and agents of a comprehensive development individually and collectively.
Flores, Petén, Guatemala
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The Arab Community Center for Economic and Social Services (ACCESS)
The Arab Community Center for Economic and Social Services (ACCESS) was started by a group of volunteers to assist the Arab immigrant population adapt to life in America. ACCESS is a fully integrated, community health center that is comprised of medical, research, environmental, public health, mental health, and family counseling services and programs. ACCESS’s philosophy is based on the premise that health promotion and disease prevention activities are the most humane and effective ways to ensure health and well being for the community at large. ACCESS’s pressing global issues and concerns include strengthening the primary health care systems, the achievement of the millennium development goals of the Eastern Mediterranean Region Office (EMRO Region), swine flue awareness and vaccination regional campaign, and tobacco-free initiatives. ACCESS is committed to contributing to the realization of these goals by continuing to focus and strengthen its health and educational programs.
Dearborn, Michigan, USA
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The Banyan
The Banyan is working towards a society that accepts the mentally ill for who they are, finding a constructive place for them within its folds. The Banyan is an integral part of the chain of care for people with mental illness in Chennai, ensuring effective treatment with a model that combines medication and rehabilitation. The Banyan uses psychological therapies, vocational training, occupational therapy and reintegration with communities. By offering local treatments, The Banyan encourage those with mental illness and their care givers to seek the professional help they need by making the process easy and accessible, providing for the entire family to relieve the resource burden of a mentally ill relative both physically and financially and to ensure effective care at home. The Banyan understands that there needs to be awareness for change, and that sensitizing community, schools, government bodies and other stakeholders to encourage a change within policy and civil society that allows those with mental illness to live lives of their choosing in dignity and respect.
Chennai, India
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The Center for the Rural Development of Milot (The CRUDEM Foundation)
The Center for the Rural Development of Milot (The CRUDEM Foundation) is the largest private hospital in the North of Haiti. This premier Haitian healthcare facility has been a beacon of hope for the people of Northern Haiti as it creates a healthier Haiti, one dignified life at a time. Hôpital Sacré Coeur hosts two operating rooms, outpatient clinics, an on-site full laboratory, pharmacy, labour and delivery room, paediatric wing, and blood bank, also offering full maternity services, an HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment program (with PMTCT programs), and a children’s nutrition centre for malnourished preschoolers. The mission of Hôpital Sacré Coeur is to be both a Catholic hospital and medical centre providing quality healthcare to the sick and the poor in the Haitian community, and an educational centre for all who serve healthcare in Haiti. CRUDEM emphasizes service and compassion by meeting others with an open heart and open mind and providing accessible quality health care services. Responding with faith, integrity, respect and excellence and calling forth the self-empowerment of the people & communities we serve, CRUDEM embraces all people in need regardless of their religion, economic status or medical condition, upholding the inherent dignity of every individual.
Ludlow, Massachusetts, USA
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The Centre for Infectious Disease Research in Zambia (CIDRZ)
The Centre for Infectious Disease Research in Zambia (CIDRZ) is a leader in HIV/AIDS treatment and research, maternal-child health care and studies, cervical cancer, malaria and tuberculosis practice. CIDRZ has a three-pronged approach for both short and long term solutions: (1) clinical care, which is given to patients using the highest quality services and practices; (2) research that is conducted using international standards but is always informed by local practice; and (3) ongoing training to increase the level of knowledge and understanding of African and expatriate doctors, as well as researchers and health workers. Ongoing training allows HIV prevention and treatment, and TB and cervical cancer programs continue to reach new clinics and new communities. CIDRZ trains nurses and doctors in adult and pediatric HIV management, the prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT), infant HIV testing, and cervical cancer screening and treatment. CIDRZ also trains pharmacy technicians in HIV patient management and good pharmaceutical practice, and teaches laboratory technicians to use and maintain lab equipment. Internationally acknowledged as a health leader, CIDRZ has remained rooted in local community health care while becoming a world-renown resource for infectious disease understanding and breakthroughs.
Lusaka, Zambia
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The Chinese Anti-Cancer Association (CACA)
The Chinese Anti-Cancer Association (CACA) is a non-profit NGO dedicated exclusively to cancer prevention and control in China. CACA carries out clinical cancer research, establishes on-going oncology research and education, organizes various types of cancer knowledge programs, and records new techniques, accomplishments and academic conferences held both home and abroad. CACA aims its utmost efforts at organizing scientific cooperation and conferences, promoting international non-governmental exchanges, conducting various training courses and seminars, fostering scientific, technological and medical personnel in the field of oncology, compiling and publishing academic periodicals, and mobilizing social forces to take part in popularization and dissemination of the knowledge of tumor prevention.
Tianjin, China
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The Foundation for AIDS Research (amfAR)
The Foundation for AIDS Research (amfAR) is one of the world's leading nonprofit organizations supporting HIV/AIDS research, HIV prevention, treatment education, and the advocacy of sound AIDS-related public policy, working to end the global AIDS epidemic through innovative research. amfAR plays a catalytic role in accelerating the pace of HIV/AIDS research and achieving real breakthroughs, and their research has increased our understanding of HIV and has laid the groundwork for major advances in the study and treatment of HIV/AIDS. Since 1985, amfAR has invested nearly $290 million in its mission and has awarded grants to more than 2,000 research teams worldwide. Current international initiatives are: TREAT Asia, a network of clinics, hospitals, and research institutions working with civil society to ensure the safe and effective delivery of HIV/AIDS treatments throughout Asia and the Pacific; and The MSM Initiative, which supports grassroots organizations in developing countries in their efforts to provide essential HIV/AIDS services for men who have sex with men (MSM).
New York, NY, USA
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The Healing Breath Program of the Art of Living Foundation
The Healing Breath Program of the Art of Living Foundation is a non-profit NGO that works in consultative status with the UN's Economic and Social Council, participating in a variety of committees and activities relating to health, education, sustainable development, conflict resolution, and disaster relief. The Foundation engages in a wide array of educational and humanitarian programs that uplift individuals, make a difference in local communities, and foster global change. The Foundation also offers programs for youth and teens, businesses, law and government, prison inmates and staff, trauma survivors, people with depression, and programs for people living with cancer, HIV, and other life-threatening diseases. The Foundation’s mission is to strengthen the individual and society by offering programs inspired by His Holiness Sri Sri Ravi Shankar that eliminate stress, create a sense of belonging, restore human values, develop life to its full potential, and encourage people from all backgrounds to come together in celebration, wisdom, and service.
Bangalore South Taluk, Karnataka, India
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The HealthStore Foundation
The HealthStore Foundation is a non-profit that has developed and implemented a working model to deliver healthcare to the developing world. HealthStore’s mission is to improve access to essential drugs, basic healthcare, and prevention services for children and families in the developing world using business franchise models that maintain standards and are geometrically scalable. The HealthStore Foundation developed a system to attract nurses and other community health workers and then help them set up clinics, provide them with management guidance, a brand name, and an inexpensive and consistent supply of high quality medicines. HealthStore’s ultimate vision is to ignite the use of the franchise model to increase access to high-quality essential drugs and basic healthcare throughout the developing world.
Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
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The Institute of Health and Communications Tsinghua University
The Institute of Health and Communications Tsinghua University Hepatitis B campaign aims at eliminating hepatitis B discrimination by literacy education and getting the government to formulate and implement anti-discrimination policies and regulations to protect hepatitis B patients. Some 100 million people are infected with hepatitis B in China, and there is widespread discrimination against them. The Institute of Health and Communications is China’s leading health journalism educator and the institute has also been serving as the country’s top think tank and media policy advisor in public health in the fight against HIV/AIDS, SARS, bird flu, swine flu and tobacco control.
Beijing, China
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The International Network for Cancer Treatment and Research (INCTR)
The International Network for Cancer Treatment and Research (INCTR) is a non-profit NGO that addresses cancer. The INCTR assists developing countries through a structured program of training, education and research collaboration to develop an increased understanding of the causes and predisposition to regionally important cancers, and to increase survival rates and the quality of life in patients with cancer. INCTR strives to take advantage of unique opportunities for cancer research in developing countries and build capacity for cancer treatment and research in countries with limited resources through long term, collaborative projects, coupled with training and educational programs. INCTR hopes to accomplish this by developing a series of networks and partnerships with corporate, professional, academic, governmental and non-governmental organizations which will bring their special expertise to bear upon all aspects of cancer research and cancer control.
Brussels, Belgium
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The Kenya Medical Research Institute - Wellcome Trust Research Program (KEMRI)
The Kenya Medical Research Institute - Wellcome Trust Research Program (KEMRI) conducts basic clinical and epidemiological research with results feeding directly into local and international health policy, aiming to expand the country's capacity to conduct multidisciplinary research that is strong, sustainable and internationally competitive. Strong community links are at the heart of KEMRI’s program, with an emphasis on capacity building and training to build scientific leadership. KEMRI’s key principles are to: conduct intervention research and basic research in parallel; have a direct input to local and international health policy; carry out research to the highest international, scientific and ethical standards on major causes of morbidity and mortality in Africa; to build strong and sustainable internationally competitive, national and regional research capacity; and to work in a way that facilitates integration and cross fertilization of scientific disciplines. KEMRI acts as a centre of excellence where promising African researchers can work within a strong scientific environment, forging their own links with the international scientific community. Through collaborations and partnerships within the East African region the programme seeks to support the development of a stronger regional research base.
Kilifi, Kilifi District, Kenya
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The Naz Foundation India Trust
The Naz Foundation India Trust is a New Delhi-based NGO that deals with HIV/AIDS and sexual health. Through the years, Naz India has evolved and implemented a holistic approach to combat HIV, focusing on prevention as well as treatment. Naz focuses on reaching out to marginalized populations infected and affected by HIV with aims to sensitize the community to the prevalence of HIV, as well as highlight issues related to sexuality and sexual health. Naz supports a home-based care program that provides at-home visits from counselors, nurses, and doctors for families with one or more members living with HIV. They also maintain a care home for HIV-positive orphans up to 15 years of age. Naz conducts and coordinates training and workshops on issues related to HIV/AIDS and sexual health, building the capacity of individuals and organizations by raising their awareness levels and bringing about a positive change in their attitudes on these topics.
New Delhi, India
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The Quality of Life Research Center
The Quality of Life Research Center investigates the correlations between quality of life, health and knowledge to make tools that will help people. The Quality of Life Research Center in Copenhagen was established when the physician Søren Ventegodt succeeded in getting a response to his project “Quality of life and causes of disease” from the Department of Social Medicine at the University of Copenhagen. The focus was quality of life related to socio-economic status and health, compared with the data collected during pregnancy, delivery and early childhood studies. The project continued to grow and later was organized into a group that did computer programs for use in the data entry and further analysis of the data. Recently, a number of new research projects were launched, such as: (1) a project that aims to prevent illness and social problems among the elderly in one of the municipalities by inspiring them to improve their quality of life themselves; and (2) a project about the quality of life after apoplectic attacks at one of the major hospitals in Copenhagen.
Copenhagen, Denmark
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The Rhode Foundation
The Rhode Foundation is a non-profit who sees a future for rural Africa in which it produces, invests, and mobilizes the intellectual capital and human resources required to provide medical care to all its peoples. The Rohde Foundation is dedicated to equitable and comprehensive health care in rural Africa. To accomplish this, the Foundation aims to address public health infrastructure, skilled local manpower, and the construction and fiscal management of rural health facilities, while working long-term for the creation of a self-sustaining and self-directed rural health system which can be reproduced continent-wide. The Rohde Foundation is taking steps to provide safe water, sanitation, and disease prevention facilities. Led by local leaders, community labor, and international donors, the Foundation has begun to install and fix clean water systems, modern sanitation facilities, and 100% coverage of all sleeping spaces with insecticide treated bed nets.
Solvang, California, USA
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The Task Force for Global Health
The Task Force for Global Health is a non-profit, public health organization based in Atlanta, Georgia, recognized for its expertise and experience in global health collaboration and the ability to develop and facilitate partnerships throughout the global health community. The Task Force for Global Health encompasses a strong network of programs focused on both international and domestic health and human development, including work in the areas of disease eradication and control, child well being, global health collaboration, and public health informatics. The Task Force for Global Health focuses on three areas: closing the gap in childhood immunization levels between the developed and developing nations; revolutionizing the treatment of neglected tropical diseases through their work in pharmacophilanthropy; and developing and applying a framework for effective collaboration in global health to some of the most pressing problems of our time. The magnitude of their successful programs—whether it is delivering more than a billion treatments for NTDs, or mobilizing the UN member states to address the global epidemic of road traffic injuries—speaks to their success in mobilizing effective coalitions.
Decatur, Georgia, USA
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The White Ribbon Alliance for Safe Motherhood (WRA)
The White Ribbon Alliance for Safe Motherhood (WRA) is an international coalition of individuals and organizations formed to promote increased public awareness of the need to make pregnancy and childbirth safe for all women and newborns. WRA is a grassroots movement that builds alliances, strengthens capacity, influences policies, harnesses resources and inspires action to save the lives of women and newborns around the world. WRA not only works to sustain life and hope for all women, but also mourns and honors those women who did not survive pregnancy or childbirth. Much of the work of the WRA is carried out by national alliances, each organized around its own needs to ensure local ownership. Most importantly, the WRA enables women and men in developing countries to have a voice amplified on the global stage, and this has improved their access to life-saving care.
Washington, D.C., USA
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Tostan
Tostan is a non-profit NGO based in Senegal, West Africa. Tostan is dedicated to educating and empowering Africans who have had little or no access to formal schooling, working primarily in rural regions to provide basic education and increase community engagement in projects related to the environment, health and hygiene, child welfare, human rights and democracy, and economic development. The Tostan organization relies on the collaboration of a diverse staff of donors, volunteers, and interns to run programs in Africa, Europe and the United States. Tostan's mission is to empower African communities to bring about sustainable development and positive social transformation based on respect for human rights.
Washington, D.C., USA
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Transnet Foundation (Health Portfolio)
Transnet Foundation (Health Portfolio) is part of the largest and most crucial freight logistics chain that delivers goods to South Africa. Funded by Transnet Limited, Phelophepa (translates as good, clean health) started its journey as the first and only primary healthcare train in the world the same year that South Africa took its first steps towards democracy. Most of the areas visited by the train have no access to even the most basic healthcare services, and each stop not only provides much needed healthcare, but temporary employment to local community members for translation services, data capturing of waiting patients, cleaning services and support staff in the kitchen. The train travels through 70 communities over a two-year cycle and treats an average of 45,000 patients each year in the on-board 5 clinics, while another 180,000 are reached through the oral hygiene, health education, journey and counseling workshops.
Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa
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United Nations Population Fund (UNPFA)
The United Nations Population Fund (UNPFA) is an international development agency promoting the right of every man, women and child to enjoy a life of health and equal opportunity. UNFPA supports population data for policies and programmes to reduce poverty and to ensure that every pregnancy is wanted, every birth is safe, every young person is free of HIV/AIDS, every girl and woman is treated with dignity and respect, and the choices of individuals and couples are great. UNFPA helps governments formulate policies and strategies to reduce poverty and support sustainable development. The Fund assists countries to collect and analyze population data that can help understand population trends, encouraging governments to take into account the needs of current and future generations. UNFPA promotes a holistic approach to reproductive health care that includes: universal access to safe and affordable contraceptive methods; quality obstetric and antenatal care; and prevention and management of sexually transmitted infections, including HIV. Working in partnership with UN agencies, governments, communities, NGOs, and the private sector, the Fund raises awareness and mobilizes the support and resources needed to reach the targets set forth at the International Conference on Population and Development and in the Millennium Development Goals.
New York, New York, USA
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Venice Family Clinic (VFC)
The Venice Family Clinic (VFC) is the largest free clinic in the United States, providing comprehensive primary health care and support in addition to auxiliary visits and health education management at seven locations on the west side of Los Angeles County. Some of the services VFC provides are: vision and dental care; HIV/AIDS prevention, testing and treatment; domestic violence intervention; chronic disease management; women’s health services and pediatric care; and child development services.
Venice Family Clinic is regarded as a model for health centers, community clinics and free clinics across the United States, and has the potential to act as a model on a global scale.
Venice, California, USA
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Vestergaard Frandsen S.A.
Vestergaard Frandsen S.A. is a European-based international company specializing in complex emergency response and disease control products designed to prevent waterborne and vector-borne illnesses, and neglected tropical diseases (NTDs). Strong support of the MDG to reduce child mortality and combat HIV/AIDS and malaria, and reducing the number of people without access to safe drinking water, are defining characteristics of Vestergaard Frandsen. Their passion for success begins with heavy investments made in scientific research and developments that spur the creation of new products and the refinement of current ones. Vestergaard Frandsen has committed to action by innovating technological breakthroughs for the most vulnerable people on earth, with their PermaNet®, LifeStraw®, ZeroFly® and CarePack™ products, all of which have the potential to revolutionize health management systems, fighting preventable diseases and saving lives.
Lausanne, Switzerland
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Via Libre
Via Libre works towards universal access to comprehensive health care with an emphasis on integrating sexual health and HIV prevention, care and management within the framework of ethical principles, respecting human rights, sexual diversity and gender equity, particularly in vulnerable populations. Their early involvement in the political arena included protesting a law which required persons to receive a negative HIV test in order to receive their marriage license. Via Libre’s successful leadership and negotiation skills have resulted in the creation of a National Center to control Human Immunodeficiency Virus, AIDS and other STDs. Via Libre has organized workshops and courses for the general public and health personnel, and published manuals, brochures and videos on HIV/AIDS. They have contributed significantly to the local celebration of World AIDS day and created a counseling hotline for people affected by HIV. In recent years, Via Libre developed the management skills necessary to enable its institutional growth and has had strategic collaborations with the International Alliance for HIV/AIDS and the organization of HIVOS in the Netherlands.
Lima, Peru
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VOSH International
VOSH International is a non-sectarian, a-political NGO dedicated to the provision of eye and vision care services for those below the poverty level without access to local eye care. VOSH programs provide eyeglasses, treat eye diseases and perform eye surgeries. The mission and vision of VOSH as an organization has evolved over the years and now include research, educational activities, short-term missions, establishment of permanent clinics and partnering with other NGOs in public service projects. The primary mission of VOSH/International is to facilitate the provision and the sustainability of vision care worldwide for people who can neither afford nor obtain such care.
Ipswich, Massachusetts, USA
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Wabe Children's Aid and Training (WCAT)
Wabe Children's Aid and Training (WCAT) is a non-profit NGO improving the lives of children and adults from marginalized families and community groups so they can become productive and responsible citizens free from ignorance, poverty and disease. WCAT’s mission is to work with groups in order to improve their living conditions through education and training based on integrated developments. WCAT works to improve the socio-economic conditions of the target population, creating an organization with enhanced mobilization capacity and management systems. WCAT strives to: provide schools with quality tools and resources; create awareness about mainstream health issues and harmful traditional practices (HTP's); promote the wise use of natural resources and protection of the environment; facilitate target community groups and empower them to improve their living conditions; and undertake income generating projects that improve the community’s living standards. WCAT conducts public awareness campaigns on the danger of HIV/AIDS, Malaria, Tuberculosis (TB) and other STIs, provides immunization programs for children in the area, and creates awareness about family planning, adolescent reproductive health and basic hygiene.
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
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WiRED International
WiRED International is a non-profit whose mission is to provide medical and healthcare information, education and communications in developing and war-affected regions. WiRED considers access to medical, health promotion, and prevention information a critical public health need and a universal birthright and promotes the view that where you live should not decide if you live. Providing equipment, coordination, and contacts, WiRED has helped save lives and bridge the gap between developed and developing nations by supplying information and technology tools that link underserved and war-affected regions to medical and healthcare information worldwide. Medical Information Centers (MICs) connect isolated doctors and healthcare providers to current electronic medical information and American doctors and nurses. These links allow consultations on specific cases and provide a mechanism for long-term, sustaining medical updates and training. Typically located in hospitals or clinics, MICs supply isolated doctors and other healthcare professionals with medical curricula combined with the latest technologies; computers, internet access, and other relevant technologies; and connections with well-trained doctors in developed countries, including lectures, workshops, and clinical assessments.
Montara, California, USA
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Women's International Network for Guatemalan Solutions (WINGS)
Women's International Network for Guatemalan Solutions (WINGS) is a non-profit NGO in Guatemala subsidizing the costs of birth control for Guatemalan families. WINGS' programming encompasses reproductive health education, cervical cancer detection and treatment, and peer education for adolescents, creating opportunities for Guatemalan families to improve their lives. WINGS strives to provide for every Guatemalan of or nearing reproductive age by providing access to and knowledge about safe and healthy family planning methods free from cultural and religious constraints. WINGS offers a haven where reproductive issues can be openly and comfortably discussed. To raise awareness about family planning in Guatemala and increase the use of available services, WINGS’ family planning educators conduct community outreach and provide individual counseling and referrals for family planning methods when requested.
Antigua, Sacatepéquez, Guatemala
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World Health Organization (WHO)
The World Health Organization (WHO) is the directing and coordinating authority for health within the United Nations system. It is responsible for providing leadership on global health matters, shaping the health research agenda, setting norms and standards, articulating evidence-based policy options, providing technical support to countries and monitoring and assessing current health trends. WHO fulfills its objectives through its core functions of providing leadership on matters critical to health and engaging in partnerships where joint action is needed, shaping the research agenda and stimulating the generation, translation and dissemination of valuable knowledge and setting norms and standards, promoting and monitoring their implementation. The WHO Constitution defines health as ‘a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.’ WHO strives for the attainment by all peoples of the highest possible level of health.
Geneva, Switzerland
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Worldwide Orphans Foundation (WWO)
The Worldwide Orphans Foundation (WWO) is a U.S.-based, non-profit NGO working to transform the lives of the world’s orphaned children by addressing their medical, developmental, psychosocial and educational needs. WWO’s mission is to help these children become healthy, independent, productive members of their communities and the world, providing direct services in many areas to care for the health of children in orphanages around the world. WWO strives to identify the unique needs of orphaned children in institutional and group settings around the world and address those needs through medical, developmental, psychosocial and educational programs that are respectful of cultural norms in each setting. WWO nurtures orphaned children with the love and attention that is every child's birthright, so they may grow, learn, play and lead productive, dignified adult lives. WWO encourages strategic partnerships with like-minded organizations, both in-country and internationally to further extend their reach and effectively use the resources available, ensuring sustainability. WWO was one of the first NGOs to introduce professional peer training in Vietnam and Ethiopia for pediatric HIV/AIDS treatment, and was the first to provide antiretroviral treatment to orphans with HIV/AIDS in both countries.
Maplewood, New Jersey, USA
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Y.R. Gaitonde Centre for AIDS Research and Education (YRG CARE)
Y.R. Gaitonde Centre for AIDS Research and Education (YRG CARE) is a non-profit organized around four core areas - education, research, training and proper care and support. YRG works to reduce and eliminate new HIV/AIDS infections while responding to the needs of those who are infected. YRG’s objectives are to build awareness of HIV infection and promote safe and responsible behaviour in the community, provide all people access to a non-coercive and non-stigmatized counseling, testing and continuum of care, maintain and develop YRG CARE's human resources, physical infrastructure and organizational systems, and advocate for individual rights and policies for a non-judgmental, supportive environment for PLWHA and people affected by the epidemic.
Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
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YWCA
YWCA is a global network of women leading social and economic change and advocating for peace, justice, health, human dignity, freedom and care for the environment. YWCA’s vision is promoted and sustained through women’s leadership. YWCA seeks to unite national associations in a worldwide women’s volunteer membership movement. Inspired by the Christian faith, the purpose of the World YWCA is to develop the leadership and collective power of women and girls around the world so that they may achieve human rights, health, security, dignity, freedom, justice and peace for all people. The World YWCA builds the leadership of women and girls to develop the most effective solutions to the issues affecting their lives and communities. The World YCWA promotes social, economic, cultural, religious and political rights of women and girls through advocacy and related programmes and services. Principles YWCA values are worldwide solidarity as a women’s volunteer membership movement; diversity, inclusiveness, tolerance and mutual respect; integrity and responsible accountability; self determination of women and girls in all areas of life; leadership which improves the status of women and girls around the world; and care for the environment.
Geneve, Switzerland
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