Private Sector Health Projects Database
The Private Sector Working Group developed a searchable database of over 140 health projects worldwide that work with the private commercial sector. This database is a central repository of the private sector projects in family planning, reproductive health, and HIV/AIDS. It contains a brief description of the project and is searchable by keyword, country, region, and implementing organization. The projects below are listed in reverse chronological order by date of submission.
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Found 152 matches.
Project Name
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Description | Countries | Implementers |
|---|---|---|---|
| "Kisumu Medical and Educational | K-MET's mission is to promote innovative health programs as the basis for holistic community development. The organization focuses on three specific project areas: safe abortion care, adolescent sexuality and reproductive health, and AIDS prevention and support. | Kenya | American Jewish World Services, Center of Studies of Adolescents, FCI, IPAS, Ministry of Health, MOE, Pacific Institute for Women's Health, PPFA-I, UCLA, WAFNET |
| A2Z Project |
The A2Z Project supports country programs to reduce micronutrient deficiencies by: Implementing proven interventionsExtending coverage Initiating innovative approaches Improving program efficiency Strengthening systems to ensure sustainability The mix of interventions depends on country needs, priorities, and resources. |
Cambodia, Guinea, India, Philippines, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda | Academy for Educational Development, Helen Keller International, International Eye Foundation, Johns Hopkins University, Management Sciences for Health, Social Sector Development Strategies, University of California/Davis |
| AFFORD | Help the private sector deliver improved health to Ugandan families and communities by giving them the products and services, and the competence and confidence, they need to effectively manage their own health. | Uganda | Aclaim Africa, CDFU, Constella Futures, JHU-CCP, Malaria Consortium, Pulse Communications |
| African Comprehensive HIV/AIDS Partnerships (ACHAP) | To support Botswana in the development and implementation of a national comprehensive HIV/AIDS strategy that will prevent new HIV infections and reduce the morbidity and mortality of HIV/AIDS. | Botswana | Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Government of Botswana, Merck & Co., Inc. |
| AIDSMark | Using social marketing to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS and other infectious diseases throughout the world. AIDSMark collaborates with USAID missions and other international donors, as well as with host governments, NGOs, and commercial enterprises to broaden current programs to include a wider range of products and services, scale up programs to reach additional target groups and intensify efforts within current target groups, increase the capacity of programs in management, marketing, communications and research, and start new programs. | Global | PSI, USAID |
| ALDO Fights AIDS | A global HIV/AIDS awareness and fundraising campaign using mass media and information and communication technologies (ICTs) to reach out to teenagers and young adults. | Global | ALDO, PSI, YouthAIDS |
| Alertos Da Vida | A community theatre project to educate Portuguese-speaking young people in Johannesburg about HIV and health issues. This programme is needed both to inform, and also to encourage men and women to take responsibility. | Mozambique, South Africa | CMD |
| Alianzas Project, Strategic Alliances for Social Investment | The purpose of the project is to identify, develop, and manage public-private alliances that contribute to increased and improved social sector investments; increase access and improve quality of basic education; and increase use of quality maternal, child, and reproductive health services. | Guatemala | URC |
| ALUCAM's HIV/AIDS program | Employment of a medical practitioner and an assistant for HIV/AIDS; training of 30 peer educators; implementation of HIV/AIDS awareness activities for employees and their families; specific education and training for female employees; special activities for communities and families on World AIDS Day; and distribution of free condoms. | Cameroon | Alucam, Ministry of Health and religious organization, Pan African Organisation Against AIDS |
| AngloGold Workplace Program | Comprehensive agreement workplace management of HIV/AIDS. Feasibility study on the provision of antiretroviral therapy (ART) drugs in partnership with other role players in the industry | South Africa | Anglo Gold, National Employees’ Trade Union (NETU), National Union of Mineworkers, South African Equity Workers’ Association (SAEWA), United Association of South Africa (UASA) |
| Annapurna Iodised Salt | Unilever has partnered with Ghana's health ministry and the United Nations Chidlrens Fund (UNICEF) to reduce the prevalence of iodine deficiency, thus bringing major improvements in maternal and child health. | Ghana | Ministry of Health, UNICEF, Unilever |
| Apparel Lesotho Alliance to Fight Aids (ALAFA) | This project aims to provide education and prevention, voluntary testing and counseling(VTC) and ultimately management of AIDS through the roll-out of antiretroviral (ARV) drugs. | Lesotho | ComMark, DFID, Edun, Gap, Inc, Irish Aid, Nordstrom |
| Bambisanani Project | This unique public-private initiative aims to assist disadvantaged communities to respond to AIDS-related needs for care and support Bambisanani partners work with community leaders, women's and youth groups, traditional healers, and other community structures to build a suitable environment for home-based care and care for children in distress through training in HIV/AIDS, STI and TB interventions.. | South Africa | Anglo Gold, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Chamber of Mines, Employment Bureau of Africa, EQUITY Project, Gold Fields Ltd, Harmony, Mineworkers Development Agency, National Union of Mineworkers, PPASA, South Coast and Transkei Hospice |
| Barbados Employers’ Confederation's (BEC) HIV/AIDS program | Enlighten members and their employees on the effects of HIV/AIDS. Efforts are aimed mainly at sensitizing employers to their responsibility to educate their employees about health and safety issues, in order to create a better understanding of co-workers who may be infected with HIV. | Barbados | Barbados Employers’ Confederation (BEC) |
| Basic Support for Institutionalizing Child Survival (BASICS) | The BASICS Project is a USAID contract to fight needless childhood deaths in the developing world. Supporting families and communities, the contract will help expand effective child health interventions like newborn health, vitamin A supplementation and other essential nutrition actions, immunization, pediatric AIDS, the treatment of diarrhea and pneumonia, and malaria control. | Global | AED, JSI, Manoff Group, MSH, PATH, SCF, TSL, USAID |
| Benfam | The Brazilian Society for Family Welfare (BEMFAM), IPPF/WHR’s affiliate in Brazil, contracts with municipalities to provide technical support to their sexual and reproductive health service provision activities. | Brazil | BENFAM, International Planned Parenthood/Western Hemisphere Region (IPPF/WHR) |
| Campaign to End Fistula | UNFPA is motivated by the belief that fistula is an issue of rights and equality and an effective entry point into strengthening women's reproductive health and furthering gender equity, helping support achievement of the Millennium Development Goals. | Addis Ababa Fistula Hospital, EngenderHealth, Equilibres & Populations, FIGO, ICM, L'Oreal, Population Council, Sir Richard Branson, UNFPA, Virgin Unite, Voluntary Service Overseas, WHO, Women's Dignity Project, Worldwide Fistula Fund | |
| Carolina for Kiberia (CFK) Youth Sports Association | The Youth Sports Association uses sport as a core tool for youth development and also focuses on issues impacting young people in Kibera, such as the environment, reproductive health, and employment creation. | Kenya | American Jewish World Services, CDC, Cornell University's Johnson School of Management, Ford Foundation, MedWorld, Reuters Foundation, Small Grants Program, Sportsendeavors, Inc., Stop Hunger Now, The World Bank, U.S. Ambassador's Self-Help Fund, University of North Carolina (USA) Men's Soccer Team |
| Celtel International Corporate HIV/AIDS Program | Targets 4,000 Celtel employees in all operations, as well as their dependents (one spouse and up to 4 dependant children below the age of 18 years). Project objectives are to (1) prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS among the Celtel population, and (2) provide quality and confidential treatment for HIV infected employees and their dependents. | Burkina Faso, Chad, Congo (Brazzaville), Congo (Kinshasa), Gabon, Madagascar, Malawi, Sierra Leone, Uganda, Zambia | Ministry of Health, Pharmaccess |
| CFW Shops | A network of micro pharmacies and clinics whose mission is to provide access to essential medicines to marginalized populations in the developing world | Kenya | HealthStore Foundation |
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