Chevron Corporation’s local business unit, Chevron Nigeria Limited (CNL), in collaboration with the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation has launched the Roll Back Malaria (RBM) program in Lagos State to support the State health authorities in addressing the considerable impact of malaria on the local population. Malaria is endemic in Lagos State with over 540,000 cases reported in 2014. In metropolitan … Read More
2015 Winners of Best Corporate Global Health Programs Announced
November 20th, 2015 GBCHealth and Global Health Council announced last week the winners of the Business Action on Health Awards, bestowed annually to the world’s best corporate-supported global health programs. The awards were presented to two winning and five commended companies at Global Health Council’s Landscape Symposium held in Washington D.C and attended by over 150 representatives from the international … Read More
New Report | Private Sector Consultation on the Equitable Access Initiative
The Equitable Access Initiative (EAI) is a multi-stakeholder initiative established to build a new framework for classifying countries’ health needs and capacities beyond traditional economic metrics. The initiative aims to capture these factors as countries move along the development continuum from low- to middle-income status. Nine co-convening development organizations selected four analytical groups to develop potential models to better gauge … Read More
Statement from the Private Sector Constituency to the Roll Back Malaria Partnership on the Passing of Alan Magill
The Private Sector Constituency of the Roll Back Malaria Partnership Board is deeply saddened by the sudden loss of our colleague and friend Alan Magill. Many of us worked closely with Alan during his time at the Gates Foundation. We all admired his visionary leadership of the Malaria Portfolio as he challenged not only his team but us too in … Read More
CAMA Partners with Etisalat and National Malaria Elimination Programme on World Mosquito Day Advocacy Campaign in Nigeria
Each year on August 20th the world celebrates World Mosquito Day. This year, as a result of its 2016 Annual Technical Forum, CAMA formed a partnership with Etisalat Nigeria, the National Malaria Elimination Programme of Nigeria and HACEY Health Initiative, on a Nigeria-wide World Mosquito Day Campaign. The campaign spanned social media, print media and radio/TV slots with messages on … Read More
How to Market Health and Make Markets Healthier
Via DevEx | By Sibylle Koenig | 07 August 2015 With the Addis Ababa Action Agenda on financing for development now set in stone, one question has come to the fore among the ranks of the global development community: What will be the impact on human development and rights issues of the so-called new financing mechanisms — blended, nongrant and private … Read More
The Road to 2020: Media Coverage
In addition to the social media reach by #EndMalaria2020, the 2015 CAMA Annual Technical Forum, The Road to 2020: Mobilizing the Private Sector in Nigeria’s Fight Against Malaria, received wide media coverage within Nigeria. Read more about the event on the following outlets: Business day If you want to improve your productivity, then you need to get malaria under control. The road to … Read More
Isaiah Owalabi, CAMA Program Manager, Receives Queen’s Young Leaders Award
GBCHealth’s Atlas Corps Fellow, Isaiah Owolabi, who has been managing the Corporate Alliance on Malaria in Africa (CAMA) for the past year, was honored to receive a Queen’s Young Leaders Award. The Queen’s Young Leaders Programme discovers, celebrates and supports exceptional young people from across the Commonwealth. Award winners, aged 18-29, are recognized by The Queen for taking the lead … Read More
GSK’s malaria candidate vaccine, Mosquirix™ (RTS,S), receives positive opinion from European regulators for the prevention of malaria in young children in sub-Saharan Africa
24 July 2015 | Via GSK WHO will now assess how the world’s first malaria candidate vaccine might be used alongside other tools to prevent malaria GSK announced today that the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) of the European Medicines Agency (EMA) has adopted a positive scientific opinion for its malaria candidate vaccine MosquirixTM, also known as … Read More
GBCHealth Announces Health Credit Exchange at Financing for Development in Addis
Alongside its partners, the MDG Health Alliance and Total Impact Advisors, GBCHealth announced the formation of the Health Credit Exchange in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia at the Third Financing for Development Conference. On Monday, the Exchange was also endorsed by the Global Financing Facility in Support of Every Woman Every Child (GFF) at their official side event hosted by the Secretary … Read More