Jhpiego awarded over $21 million for community health initiatives in Africa
02 January 2008
Baltimore, Maryland—Jhpiego, a nonprofit affiliate of Johns Hopkins University, has received more than $21 million dollars from the United States Government, GE Foundation and ExxonMobil Foundation to conduct HIV/AIDS, malaria in pregnancy and infection prevention related training programs in South Africa, Angola, Nigeria and Uganda.
As part of ExxonMobil Foundation’s continued initiatives to fight malaria in Africa, Jhpiego has received $1 million to implement a second year of malaria in pregnancy (MIP) activities. Each year, 30 million African women become pregnant in countries with high levels of malaria transmission and have no access to proper preventive or treatment options. Jhpiego will use the funding to continue to improve the quality of MIP services delivered at health facilities and by community health workers in Nigeria and Angola.
Jhpiego has been awarded an $850,000 multi-year grant from GE Foundation to help improve infection prevention and control practices at community health centers and to address the lack of community access at specific hospitals in Uganda’s southwest Isingiro District. This GE Foundation grant supports GE's corporate initiative, Developing Health Globally, which aims to improve community health and reduce infant and maternal mortality in selected regions across 10 countries in Africa. GE is delivering system-level upgrades to hospitals in 10 countries by combining products, technology and training solutions from its Energy, Water, Healthcare and Consumer & Industrial businesses that address gaps in water, energy, healthcare and communications at hospitals and clinics. The corporate signature program is a $30 million humanitarian effort that began in 2004 in Ghana, and is aligned with the Millennium Promise Villages in sub-Saharan Africa.
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has provided Jhpiego with nearly $20 million to conduct HIV and AIDS treatment and related Services in the South African provinces of Eastern Cape, Northern Cape and Limpopo. Under this award, Jhpiego will support USAID and South African Government goals through building local and national human and institutional capacity to promote provision of anti retroviral treatment services. Jhpiego together with one of its partners, the
Johns Hopkins School of Nursing, will promote and implement task shifting within antiretroviral treatment services to enable nurses to provide more services. It is a major task shifting initiative to move the role from physicians to nurses in South Africa. As a result of the project, more South Africans living with HIV will receive needed care and treatment and live longer and productive lives.
"It’s exciting to have partners such as USAID, ExxonMobil Foundation and the GE Foundation. Their funding will help us make a substantial difference in saving the lives of these remarkable women and their families," says Dr. Leslie Mancuso, President and CEO of Jhpiego. "For nearly 40 years, Jhpiego has been committed to improving the health of women and children in more than 140 countries around the world."
About Jhpiego
For nearly 40 years, Jhpiego, (pronounced "ja-pie-go"), has empowered front-line health
workers by designing and implementing simple, low-cost, hands-on solutions that
strengthen the delivery of health care services, following the
household-to-hospital continuum of care. We partner with community- to
national-level organizations to build sustainable, local capacity through
advocacy, policy and guidelines development, and quality and performance
improvement approaches.
About ExxonMobil
ExxonMobil is the largest non-pharmaceutical corporate donor to malaria research and development efforts and the largest corporate donor to the President’s Malaria Initiative (PMI). Since 2000, ExxonMobil has donated nearly $100 million in community and social development programs, including grants to organizations working in Africa through the Africa Health Initiative.
About GE Foundation
The GE Foundation, the philanthropic organization of the General Electric Company, works to strengthen educational opportunity for disadvantaged children and youth globally and supports GE employee and retiree giving and involvement in GE communities around the world. |
