Philanthropy - Global

Focus

Access to medicines

• Launched in 2000 with SA Ministry of Health.
• Programme treats cryptococcal meningitis and oesophageal Candidiasis with Diflucan®.
• Diflucan® is free and without limit on time or value, to state facilities and NGOs.
• The donation is coupled with training, ensuring correct diagnosis, treatment, management of infections.
• DPP was extended in mid-2001 to all developing countries with an HIV/AIDS prevalence of more than 1%.
• 42 countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean are participants.
• In South Africa, as of February 2006, we have provided over eight million free Diflucan® tablets to the Ministry of Health, treated over 110 000 patients and the programme is active at 453 sites across the country.
• Globally, as of February 2006, Pfizer has provided over 13 million Diflucan® tablets, at 1100 sites in 42 countries.
• In total, over 200 000 patients have been treated on the Programme.
• www.diflucanpartnership.org

Infectious Diseases Institute, Kampala, Uganda

Partnership with the University, Academic Alliance Foundation, Pangaea Global AIDS Foundation, Infectious Diseases Society of America and Pfizer.

• Resulted in opening of a modern treatment and training Institute at Makerere University.
• Trains 250 African doctors annually in advances in HIV/AIDS prevention, diagnosis, treatment.
• Trainees return to their countries to teach local health care providers.
• Centre is expected to provide care to 85 000 patients.
• Several research projects are underway focusing on adherence, clinical guidelines, AR delivery, Kaposi’s sarcoma.

International Trachoma Initiative

• Trachoma is the world’s leading cause of preventable blindness
• It can be reversed by treating infection with one dose of a Pfizer medicine and addressing underlying causes of the disease, such as poverty and hygiene.
• The partnership has provided 175 000 sight-saving surgeries and distributed 28 million antibiotic treatments in 13 countries in west Africa and parts of Asia.

Access to our talent

Global Health Fellows

• Initiated in 2003.
• Partnership places colleagues for up to 6 months in fully paid assignments with NGOs globally to provide necessary assistance in fighting the HIV/AIDS pandemic and other major threats to human life.
• During secondment, employment contracts remain in force.
• 90 Pfizer Fellows have been placed globally
• SA has benefited from 8 Fellows.

In conclusion

• Pfizer recently received the Excellence in Corporate Philanthropy Award from the Committee to Encourage Corporate Philanthropy in recognition of its commitment to corporate giving.