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The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is building upon the unprecedented
opportunities of the 21st century to improve equity in global health and learning.
The foundation was created in January 2000, through the merger of the Gates
Learning Foundation, which worked to expand access to technology through public
libraries, and the William H. Gates Foundation, which focused on improving
global health.
The Global Fund was created to finance a dramatic turn-around in the fight
against AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria. These three diseases kill more than
six million people each year, and the numbers are growing. This massive scaling-up
of resources is already supporting aggressive interventions against all three.
The Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University is one of the preeminent
schools of public health in the United States and the world, a leadership
position gained through important milestones. The Mailman School has been
at the center of a number of pathbreaking and prominent initiatives, studying
the effects of prenatal environmental exposures to its role coordinating MTCT-Plus,
a multi-foundation-funded $100 million effort to treat HIV-infected women
and children in Africa, Asia, and Latin America.
The mission of Millennium Promise is to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) - eight globally endorsed objectives that address the many aspects of extreme poverty - in Africa by 2015. To that end, Millennium Promise works with impoverished communities, national and local governments, and partner organizations to implement high-impact programs aimed at transforming lives on the continent and engaging donor nations, corporations, and the general public in the effort. Our work is premised on the belief that, for the first time in history, our generation has the opportunity to end extreme poverty, hunger, and disease.
The Millennium Villages project offers a bold, innovative model for helping
rural African communities lift themselves out of extreme poverty. The Millennium
Villages themselves are proving that by fighting poverty at the village level
through community-led development, rural Africa can achieve the Millennium
Development Goals by 2015 and escape from the poverty trap. By applying this
scalable model to give them a hand up, not a hand out, people of this generation
can get on the ladder of development and start climbing on their own.
The Roll
Back Malaria (RBM) Global Partnership was launched in 1998 by the World Health
Organization, UNICEF, UNDP and the World Bank to provide a coordinated international approach to fighting malaria. RBM’s goal is to halve
the burden of malaria by 2010. The RBM Partnership is now made up of more
than 90 partners including malaria-endemic countries, their bilateral and
multilateral development partners, the private sector, non-governmental and
community-based organizations, foundations, and research and academic institutions
who bring a formidable assembly of expertise, infrastructure and funds into
the fight against the disease.
The World Health Organization (WHO), the United Nations specialized agency
for health, was established on April 7, 1948. WHO's objective, as set out
in its Constitution, is the attainment by all peoples of the highest possible
level of health. Health is defined in WHO's Constitution as a state of complete
physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease
or infirmity.
The president’s Malaria Initiative (PMI) is a historic USD 1.2 billion, five-year initiative to control malaria in Africa. Announced by President Bush on June 30, 2005, it is a collaborative U.S Government effort led by the U.S Agency for International Development (USAID), in conjunction with the Department of Health and Human Services (Center for Disease Control and Prevention), the Department of State, the White House, and others.
Malaria No More was founded in 2006 by leading non-governmental organizations to inspire individuals, institutions and organizations in the private sector to support a comprehensive approach to end malaria deaths.