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  • World Health Organization : The World Health Organization is the United Nations specialized agency for health. 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.

    • WHO - Roll Back Malaria Department : The WHO Roll Back Malaria Department is responsible for malaria policy and strategy formulation, operations support and capacity development, and coordination of WHO's global efforts to roll back malaria. The Department establishes and promotes — based on evidence and expert consensus — WHO policies, normative standards and guidelines for malaria prevention and control, including monitoring and evaluation.

    • Roll Back Malaria Partnership : The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the World Bank and the World Health Organization (WHO) joined forces to launch a new campaign to fight malaria, which kills more than one million people a year. The program, "Roll Back Malaria", seeks to reduce substantially the human suffering and economic losses due to one of the world's most costly diseases.

    • Global RBM Online Database : In a single electronic platform, the WHO’s Communicable Disease Global Atlas is bringing together for analysis and comparison standardized data and statistics for infectious diseases at country, regional, and global levels. The analysis and interpretation of data are further supported through information on demography, socioeconomic conditions, and environmental factors. In so doing, the Atlas specifically acknowledges the broad range of determinants that influence patterns of infectious disease transmission.

    • WHO Macroeconomics and Health : The Commission on Macroeconomics and Health (CMH) provides evidence that investments in global health will save 8 million lives a year by 2010 and generate at least a $360 billion annual gain during the period 2015-2020, several times the costs of scaling up the health interventions themselves, counting both the donor and recipient country efforts.

  • 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.

  • Earth Institute, Columbia University : The Earth Institute at Columbia University brings together talent from throughout the University to address complex issues facing the planet and its inhabitants, with particular focus on sustainable development and the needs of the world's poor. The Earth Institute is motivated by the belief that science and technological tools already exist, and could be expanded, to greatly improve conditions for the world's poor while preserving the natural systems that support life on Earth.

    • Center for Global Health and Economic Development : The Center mobilizes global health programs that help resource-poor countries address the burden of disease, and more specifically, helps achieve the ambitious Millennium Development Goals. In an effort to prevent the morbidity and mortality caused by preventable and treatable diseases, the Center spearheads several programs which are actively engaged in delivering on-the-ground technical assistance.

    • Center for National Health Development in Ethiopia : The Center for National Health Development in Ethiopia (CNHDE) is a project of the Earth Institute at Columbia University in support of accelerated expansion of primary health care facilities in Ethiopia. It provides technical assistance to the Federal Ministry of Health and regional health bureaus in their effort to increase access and equity of essential health care services for the under-served rural population of Ethiopia.

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  • African Union : The AU is Africa’s premier institution and principal organization for the promotion of accelerated socio-economic integration of the continent, which will lead to greater unity and solidarity between African countries and peoples. The AU is based on the common vision of a united and strong Africa and on the need to build a partnership between governments and all segments of civil society, in particular women, youth and the private sector, in order to strengthen solidarity and cohesion amongst the peoples of Africa.

  • New Partnership for Africa's development : The NEPAD strategic framework document arises from a mandate given to the five initiating Heads of State (Algeria, Egypt, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa) by the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) to develop an integrated socio-economic development framework for Africa.

  • African Development Bank : The African Development Bank (ADB) is a regional multilateral development finance institution established in 1964 and engaged in mobilising resources towards the economic and social progress of its Regional Member Countries (RMCs). It is headquartered in Abidjan (Côte d’Ivoire).

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