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Google’s innovative search technologies connect millions of people around the world with information every day. In 2010 Global Strategies for HIV Prevention received a grant, one of several awards given to charitable organizations out of the Google Inc. $20 million holiday gift to thank their business partners for continued business and support. Google’s founders set a target of giving approximately 1% of Google's equity and profits to make the world a better place.
» Google awards major grant to Global Strategies for HIV Prevention - press release Dec, 2010
Since 2002, the Robert James Frascino AIDS Foundation has provided substantial annual funding to support our Prevention and Care programs.
Los Altos Rotary AIDS Project (LARAP) began to advocate and raise funds for HIV in 1989. The Los Altos Rotary was the first Rotary in the world to bring attention to AIDS.
Today LARAP seeks to improve maternal-child health by preventing HIV transmission from mothers to child (PMTCT). Support for Global Strategies for HIV Prevention has supported our Prevention and Care and Education and Training programs in Liberia.
Since 2005 the Friedland Foundation has provided annual support for our Prevention and Care program.
The mission of The African Education Initiative (NEF) is to further the advancement of science and engineering in Africa. Since 2003, NEF has supported Global Strategies for HIV Prevention’s efforts to address educational and training needs in resource poor countries.
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Catholic Medical Mission Board (CMMB) (http://www.cmmb.org/) has provided us with extraordinary donations of antiretroviral drugs to prevent and treat HIV infection through their Healing Help medical shipment program. While the cost of these drugs has decreased greatly as a result of the manufacture of generic drugs, the cost of $250-$300 per patient per year for generic versions still remains a significant obstacle for the many small hospitals and clinics that partner with Global Strategies.
CMMB was founded in 1928 and works collaboratively to provide quality health care programs and services, without discrimination, to people in need around the world. They provided us with thousands of doses of an antiretroviral drug that is one of the most potent drugs to treat HIV when used in combination with other drugs. These drugs are prohibitively expensive in spite of the availability of generic versions. They have also provided us with thousands of doses of nevirapine to prevent HIV transmission from HIV-infected mothers to infants (PMTCT). As a result of these donations, patients and HIV-infected health care workers have experienced dramatic improvements in their health and thousands of infants have been born without HIV infection. A surprise call or email from CMMB is always welcome as it often means a new donation of life-saving drugs.
CMMB health care programs include:
- AIDSRelief: Delivery and administration of antiretroviral therapies to HIV-infected individuals in Africa and the Caribbean
- Born to Live: Voluntary counseling and testing of expectant mothers; administration of the drug nevirapine prior to and following delivery for PMTCT of HIV
- Choose to Care: Hospice care for the dying, as well as housing, food and education for orphans; in five countries across southern Africa.
- Responding to AIDS in China and India: Training of nurses and doctors in China on HIV prevention, care and counseling; education of nurses, doctors and students in India on HIV prevention
- Accion for la Salud Familiar: Community-based program that works to improve family health in the Caribbean and Latin America
- Back to Haiti: Primary healthcare, life skills training, and public health information for children and their parents in Haiti
- Men Taking Action: Program in Zambia to address male attitudes and practices that negatively affect women attending antenatal clinics and accessing PMTCT services
- Healing Help: Medical Shipments
Harold Dick is a director of BLES Biochemicals, a Canadian pharmaceutical company located in London, Ontario . BLES Biochemicals specializes in the production of pulmonary surfactant, a therapeutic agent used in the treatment of respiratory distress syndrome of the neonate. Harold has been a board member of the Mennonite Central Committee. During his time on the board, he became aware of the tragedy of HIV/AIDS in Africa and began negotiating the supply of ARV therapeutics to a Nigerian clinic. Harold is delighted to assist Global Strategies in its PEP kit project and would like to acknowledge the generous support of Cipla Ltd. of Mumbai , India in these efforts.
Perspective: Branding 
is a brand strategy and design consultancy based in Oakland, CA. The firm was founded in 2003 by Calvin Walters and Simon Thorneycroft and counts among its clients companies in the food and beverage, technology, and services sectors. Their team does brand positioning, research, packaging and identity design for global Fortune 500 firms as well as selected new enterprise start-ups.
Beginning three years ago, Perspective: Branding began a program to annually select a key charity to provide assistance with their branding and communications efforts, including the Hope Walks, Hope Feeds, and Hope Quilts series for Global Strategies. The Hope series brands grew out of a plan to create and name a food product to provide nourishment to children of the epidemic. This created the opportunity to better connect the fund raising and other support programs with a clear brand built around the hope promise. In 2007, the firm created the name and identity system for the British Asian Trust, a cultural diversity program in the UK for HRH Prince Charles.
They can be reached at www.perspectivebranding.com .
