GBCHealth’s Business Action on Health Awards have been an important tool to recognize corporate leadership and commitment to improving global health through the implementation of high-impact, evidence-based health programs. This year, GBCHealth introduced a new award category to emphasize the importance of investing in the health of women and girls. GBCHealth is proud to announce Johnson & Johnson’s Private-Sector Pioneer in Fostering … Read More
Healthy People, Healthy Region: Driving Corporate Action to Eliminate Malaria in Asia-Pacific
The Healthy People, Healthy Region: Driving Corporate Action to Eliminate Malaria in Asia-Pacific private sector meeting was held on May 10, 2016 in Bangkok, Thailand as part of the Joint Malaria Week. Co-organized by the Asian Pacific Leaders Malaria Alliance (APLMA) and the Myanmar Health and Development Consortium (MHDC), with support from Sanofi and Sumitomo Chemical, the meeting brought together … Read More
GBCHealth Announces Winner of the 2016 Women & Girls Business Action on Health Award
Award Recognizes Business Leadership in Improving the Health and Well-Being of Women and Girls May 17, 2016 – Copenhagen, Denmark – Today, GBCHealth announced Johnson & Johnson as the winner of the 2016 Women and Girls Business Action on Health Award for the company’s innovative partnerships to prevent and treat obstetric fistula. Alongside Johnson & Johnson, BASF, MSD and Philips … Read More
Business Must Continue to Lead to “End Malaria for Good”
End Malaria for Good. That’s the theme of this year’s World Malaria Day – a fitting, aspirational and accomplishable goal as we kick off Agenda 2030 in this transitional year of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). Across the global malaria community, we should feel gratified with our tremendous success, having saved over 6.2 million lives that would have been lost … Read More
Spotlight on PSD Members – Eli Lilly, Johnson & Johnson, Sumitomo Chemical and Sanofi
In honor of World TB Day and World Malaria Day, we are highlighting some of the extraordinary work the PSD member companies are undertaking in the fight to end these epidemics. Read more about how Eli Lilly is bringing global attention to the TB-diabetes co-epidemic, Janssen’s partnership to expand access to a new MDR-TB drug, Sumitomo Chemical’s commitment to protect … Read More
The Global Fund’s 5th Replenishment: What, Why and How?
What is the Global Fund Replenishment? The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria provides grants to low and middle-income countries to fund prevention, treatment and care programs for people with HIV/AIDS, TB and malaria. In 2003, the Global Fund adopted a three-year replenishment model to assure countries of sustained and predictable financial support for their programs. The Fourth … Read More
Meet the PSD: Caroline Desrousseaux
Caroline Desrousseaux Global Accounts Manager, Vestergaard How did Vestergaard become involved with the Global Fund? Vestergaard has been engaged with the Global Fund since its creation. We are a company devoted to innovating products for people in the developing world and we are the leading manufacturer of bed nets which have been instrumental in the war against malaria. As such, … Read More
GBCHealth Announces Finalists in the 2016 Business Action on Health Awards: Focus on Women and Girls
GBCHealth is proud to announce the nine finalists for the 2016 Business Action on Health Award: Focus on Women & Girls. Of the record number of companies who applied for the Award, the select group of finalists exemplifies best-in-class initiatives from around the world. The selected programs cover a wide range of interventions from nutrition projects to innovative technologies to … Read More
World TB Day Interview with Dr. Lucica Ditiu, Executive Director of the StopTB Partnership
Dr. Lucica Ditiu, Executive Director of the StopTB Partnership, shares her priorities for greater private sector action on the Global Plan to End TB: The Paradigm Shift (2016-2020) — a 5-year investment plan to accelerate elimination of TB and reach the targets of the WHO End TB Strategy. The new Global Plan to End TB launched this year is called “The Paradigm Shift.” … Read More
2016 Business Action on Health Awards: Women & Girls Judging Panel
For more than a decade, GBCHealth has recognized companies with exemplary achievements in health with the Business Action on Health Awards. As part of our Every Women Every Child commitment, GBCHealth introduced a new award category in 2016, Women and Girls, to recognize companies that have demonstrated leadership and commitment to improving the health and well-being of women and girls, … Read More