Global Health Initiative

Catalyzing partnerships to tackle
HIV/AIDS I Tuberculosis I Malaria  I Health Systems 

The Global Health Initiative (GHI) was launched by Kofi Annan at the Annual Meeting 2002 in Davos. The GHI’s mission is to engage businesses in public-private partnerships to tackle HIV/AIDS, TB, Malaria and Health Systems.

Innovative Toolkit to Prompt Chinese Companies' Action around the TB Threat
The Global Health Initiative of the World Economic Forum with support from the Lilly MDR-TB Partnership and inputs from the National Center for Tuberculosis Control and Prevention, Chinese Center for Disease Control (CDC) and key partners has developed a toolkit, "Protecting Your Workforce and Surrounding Communities from Tuberculosis: An Awareness Building Toolkit on a Comprehensive Approach to TB for Businesses in China". The objective of the toolkit is to help Chinese Companies plan and implement workplace and community-based TB prevention, care and control programmes. The toolkit launched on September 26, 2008 at the Annual Meeting of the New Champions in Tianjin encourages companies to adopt an integrated approach to manage TB and HIV co-infections in partnership with their employees, the government and other key stakeholders.

Toolkit Documents (English)		Toolkit Documents (Chinese)
TB Toolkit 2 Pager		TB Toolkit 2 Pager
Toolkit Folder		Toolkit Folder
Introduction to TB for Businesses		Introduction to TB for Businesses
TB Contacts and References		TB Contacts and References
Fact Sheets for Health Professionals		Fact Sheets for Health Professionals
How to Be Safe from TB		How to Be Safe from TB
TB: Why You Should Not Discriminate		TB: Why You Should Not Discriminate
Key Messages on TB		Key Messages on TB
Poster 1		Case Study 1
Poster 2		Case Study 2

Poster 3

Toolkit to Boost South African Companies Response to TB Threat The Global Health Initiative of the World Economic Forum with support from Lilly MDR-TB Partnership and inputs from key partners has developed a toolkit, Protecting Your Workforce from Tuberculosis: A Toolkit for an Integrated Approach to TB and HIV for Businesses in South Africa...full toolkit

The Global Health Initiative is the world’s leading independent organisation Effectively Catalysing Public-Private Partnerships in health.

Currently, the GHI partners with companies, governments, international organisations and civil society to:

 Deliver innovative workplace programmes to tackle HIV/AIDS, TB and Malaria across Africa and South and Southeast Asia. Through these programmes, more than 9 million people have access to lif-saving information, prevention, testing and treatment services.
 Strengthen the health system in Sub-Saharan Africa.
 Support global and regional public-private partnerships.

To contact the GHI directly, email globalhealth@weforum.org

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