| Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation |
| Guided by the belief that every life
has equal value, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
works to reduce inequities and improve lives around the
world. In developing countries, it focuses on improving
health, reducing extreme poverty, and increasing access
to technology in public libraries. In the United States,
the foundation seeks to ensure that all people have access
to a great education and to technology in public libraries.
In its local region, it focuses on improving the lives
of low-income families. Based in Seattle, the foundation
is led by CEO Patty Stonesifer and Co-chairs William H.
Gates Sr., Bill Gates, and Melinda French Gates. |
| www.GatesFoundation.org |
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| Designer Diagnostics |
| Designer Diagnostics is a biotechnology
sales and marketing company founded for the sale of diagnostics
testkits for infectious diseases including Tuberculosis
(TB) and NonTuberculosis Mycobacterium (NTM). |
| www.DesignerDiagnostics.com |
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| Global Fund to Fight AIDS,
Tuberculosis and Malaria |
| The Global Fund was created to finance
a dramatic turn-around in the fight against AIDS, tuberculosis
and malaria. These diseases kill over 6 million people
each year, and the numbers are growing. To date, the Global
Fund has committed US$ 5.5 billion in 132 countries to
support aggressive interventions against all three diseases.
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| www.TheGlobalFund.org |
| Nutra Pharma Corporation |
| Nutra Pharma Corporation is a biopharmaceutical
company specializing in the acquisition, licensing and
commercialization of pharmaceutical products and technologies
for the management of neurological disorders, cancer,
autoimmune and infectious diseases. |
| www.NutraPharma.com |
| Stop TB Partnership |
| The Stop TB Partnership was established
in 2000 to realize the goal of eliminating TB as a public
health problem and, ultimately, to obtain a world free
of TB. It comprises a network of international organizations,
countries, donors from the public and private sectors,
governmental and nongovernmental organizations and individuals
that have expressed an interest in working together to
achieve this goal. |
| www.StopTB.org |
| World Health Organization |
| The World Health Organization is the
United Nations specialized agency for health. It was established
on 7 April 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. |
| www.WHO.int |
