Global Health - Conditions Associated with Poverty
The foundation awarded 70 grants totaling $1,219,857,173 to improve health in the developing world. Of that amount, 13 grants, totaling $57,510,017, were targeted to Conditions Associated with Poverty.
11/22/99
Worldwide Documentaries
A Closer Walk
Bloomfield, NY
$1,000,000 (over 12 months)
For the production and marketing of A Closer Walk, a film about the global AIDS crisis. This will be the first film intended for a mass audience to provide a definitive portrayal of mankind's confrontation with AIDS.
11/22/99
University of Notre Dame
Eliminating Lymphatic Filariasis in Haiti
Notre Dame, Indiana
$5,211,800 (over 5 years)
A five-year grant to work in the Leogane area of Haiti, where one third of the population is infected with lymphatic filariasis. The program will develop a model for filarial elimination programs throughout the world.
11/22/99
International Tuberculosis Foundation, Inc.
International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease - Promoting Lung Health in Children
Chicago, IL
$1,930,000 (over 5 years)
A five-year project to establish a sustainable and reproducible system for the surveillance, diagnosis, and management of the respiratory diseases that afflict children, including acute respiratory infection and pneumonia, tuberculosis, and asthma, in communities throughout Malawi.
11/22/99
SUSTAIN
Innovations in Fortification Technologies to Combat Iron Deficiency Anemia
Washington, DC
$1,793,000 (over 12 months)
A grant to help alleviate iron deficiency anemia in Latin America through the fortification of corn masa flour. Funds will also help to further the technical and commercial development of iron-enhancing compounds, which could be applied worldwide.
11/22/99
University of California, Davis
Development of Iron and Zinc-(Doubly-) Fortified Wheat Products
Davis, CA
$1,021,304 (over 3 years)
For the testing and development of iron and zinc-fortified wheat products to improve the health, nutrition, and intellectual performance of Peruvian children.
9/27/99
US Committee for UNICEF
Campaign to Eliminate Maternal and Neonatal Tetanus
New York, NY
$26,000,000 (over 4 years)
A grant to support the global initiative to eliminate maternal and neonatal tetanus (MNT). The strategy of the initiative will be to target women in the high-risk geographic areas where MNT occurs -- deprived areas where women do not have access to routine immunization, antenatal care or skilled birth attendants. To implement the high-risk approach and sustain achievements, national plans will be developed at the country level with the Ministry of Health and input from in-country partners such as UNICEF, UNFPA, WHO, and non governmental organizations that are conducting health programs in that particular country.
8/4/99
International Medical Corps
Sleeping Sickness Surveillance and Control: Tambura County, Sudan
Los Angeles, CA
$720,000 (over 12 months)
For the continuation of a treatment and surveillance program for a universally fatal epidemic of 'Sleeping Sickness' (African trypanosomiasis) in southern Sudan.
8/4/99
University of California, Davis
Program in International Nutrition
Davis, CA
$733,913 (over 2.4 years)
Research support for the selection of appropriate vitamin A-rich foods for treating nightblindness in pregnant Nepalese women and assessment of fortified Ultra Rice™ as a potential source of vitamin A and other nutrients.
8/4/99
Helen Keller International
Helen Keller International
New York, NY
$5,000,000 (over 5 years)
To support the expansion of HKI trachoma eradication programs in China, Burkina Faso, Cambodia, Mali, Morocco, Nepal, Niger, Tanzania, and Vietnam, increasing their sustainability in an effort to assist each country in addressing the significant burden of trachoma and blindness.
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