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Africa Recruit

AfricaRecruit is a programme plan of action taken to build robust and enduring productive capacity throughout the continent. It is an innovative service delivery vehicle with its focus on capacity building through human resources using its various networks within and outside Africa.

The African Comprehensive HIV/AIDS Partnerships (ACHAP)

ACHAP is a country-led, public-private development partnership between the Government of Botswana, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and Merck Company Foundation/Merck & Co., Inc., dedicated to supporting and enhancing Botswana's national response to HIV/AIDS through 2009.

African Development Bank and Water

Press release on ADB's activities on water and sanitation.

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is dedicated to bringing innovations in health and learning to the global community.

Clinton Foundation HIV/AIDS Initiative (CHAI)

CHAI strives to make treatment for HIV/AIDS more affordable and to implement large-scale integrated care, treatment, and prevention programs. Since its inception, CHAI has helped bring AIDS care and treatment to over 415,000 people living with HIV/AIDS around the world.

ENGAGE

ENGAGE is an international business-led campaign that aims to increase the quality and extent of employee engagement in the development of healthy and sustainable communities. Run by the IBLF and Business in the Community, ENGAGE helps to build business competitiveness and to meet community needs through the time, talents, energies and resources of employees.

Financial Times Special Report on Business and HIV/AIDS

Financial Time Special Report, 1 December, 2006. Read Business Action for Africa Submission to FT Special Report.

Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI)

The GAVI Alliance is a unique partnership that combines public and private sector resources to bring the benefits of immunisation to children in greatest need

Global Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS

An alliance of over 200 companies dedicated to combating the AIDS epidemic through the business sector's unique skills and expertise.

Global Business Coalition: The State of Business and HIV/AIDS 2006 – A baseline report

A baseline survey and interview program conducted by the Global Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS (GBC) and Booz Allen Hamilton has established a basis to look at the scope and depth of the response being made by the global business community

The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria

The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria was created to dramatically increase resources to fight three of the world's most devastating diseases, and to direct those resources to areas of greatest need. As a partnership between governments, civil society, the private sector and affected communities, the Global Fund represents an innovative approach to international health financing.

Global Health Reporting

Provides Journalists and others with the latest information on HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria

HIV/AIDS Beyond Africa: Managing the Financial Impacts

Study undertaken jointly by F&C Asset Management and UBS (May 2005) that focuses on the specific effects of the disease on financial markets and what companies can do to manage it.

Human Development Report 2006

The annual UN report which in 2006 focused on water and sanitation.

International Development Commitee Report on Water and Sanitation

Report by UK Parliament's IDC.

International Finance Facility for Immunization (IFFIm)

By investing the majority of resources upfront or "frontloading," this innovative funding mechanism will increase significantly the flow of aid to ensure reliable and predictable funding flows for immunization programs and health systems development during the years up to 2015. IFFIm is an initiative of the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI) with the support of the governments of the United Kingdom, France and Sweden.

NEPAD Health Strategy

This is the health strategy of the New Partnership for Africa’s Development that sets to put Africa and its health systems and interventions on target.

UNDP Human Development Report

The Human Development Report (HDR) was first launched in 1990 with the single goal of putting people back at the center of the development process in terms of economic debate, policy and advocacy. Since the first Report, four new composite indices for human development have been developed — the Human Development Index, the Gender-related Development Index, the Gender Empowerment Measure, and the Human Poverty Index. Each Report also focuses on a highly topical theme in the current development debate.

World Economic Forum' s Business Alliance Against Chronic Hunger (BAACH)

BAACH was formed in 2006 by a group of CEOs and public leaders who outlined an action plan for business to help reduce hunger. Through BAACH, businesses leverage their expertise and capabilities to improve value chains – from production, processing and packaging to retailing and marketing – to increase food supplies, nutrition and incomes in hungry regions.

World Economic Forum’s Global Health Initiative (GHI)

The GHI facilitates and stimulates greater business engagement in the fight against HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis (TB) and malaria. To achieve this goal, the GHI works closely with the WEF's member companies as well as UNAIDS and the World Health Organization's Stop TB and Roll Back Malaria partnerships. A broad range of civil society organisations, as well as governments, have also joined the efforts of the GHI.