Research and Advocacy Organizations
The AIDS Vaccine Advocacy Coalition (AVAC) provides independent analysis, policy advocacy, public education, and mobilization to enhance HIV/AIDS vaccine research and development.
The Alliance for Microbicide Development works to speed the development of safe, effective, and affordable microbicides to prevent sexually transmitted infections, most critically HIV/AIDS.
amfAR, The Foundation for AIDS Research, is dedicated to the support of AIDS research, HIV prevention, treatment education, and sound AIDS-related policy.
BIO Ventures for Global Health (BVGH) works to break down barriers that hinder industry involvement in global health product development and to catalyze new industry investment.
The Center for Global Development (CGD) seeks to reduce global poverty and inequality by encouraging policy change in the U.S. and other rich countries through research.
Families USA’s Global Health Initiative advocacy efforts focus on funding for the National Institutes of Health (NIH), specifically, funding that will expand the capacity of the NIH to contribute to global health research.
Friends of the Global Fight works to educate, engage, and mobilize Americans in the fight to end the worldwide burden of AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria.
The GAVI Alliance is an alliance between the private and public sectors working to save children's lives and people's health through the widespread use of vaccines.
The Global Campaign for Microbicides seeks to build support among policymakers, opinion leaders, and the general public for increased investment into microbicides and other user-controlled prevention methods.
The Global Forum for Health Research promotes health research to combat the neglected diseases and conditions that are major sources of ill health in developing countries and works to reduce other inequities in health and health research.
The Global Health Council works to ensure that all who strive for improvement and equity in global health have the information and resources they need to succeed.
GlobalHealthReporting.org, a project of the Kaiser Family Foundation, provides country-specific data on HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria, as well as key social and economic factors.
The Guttmacher Institute seeks to advance sexual and reproductive health worldwide through research, policy analysis, and public education.
The Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) seeks to improve the health of individuals, communities, and society by promoting excellence in patient care, education, research, public health, and prevention relating to infectious diseases.
Research!America is the nation's largest nonprofit public education and advocacy alliance working to make research to improve health a higher national priority.
RESULTS is committed to creating the political will to end hunger and the worst aspects of poverty.
The Treatment Action Group (TAG) works to find a cure for AIDS and to ensure that all people living with HIV receive necessary information and treatment.
Product Development Partnerships
Aeras Global TB Vaccine Foundation focuses on developing new vaccines against tuberculosis and ensuring their availability to all who need them.
The Drugs for Neglected Diseases Initiative (DNDi) is a not-for-profit drug development initiative established in 2003 by seven organisations from around the world.
The International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI) advocates for an HIV/AIDS vaccine to be a global priority and works with its partners to research and development vaccine candidates.
The International Partnership for Microbicides works to accelerate the development and availability of a safe and effective microbicide for use by women in developing countries.
The Medicines for Malaria Venture (MMV) works to discover, develop, and deliver new antimalarial drugs through effective public-private partnerships.
The TB Alliance works to accelerate the discovery and development of fast-acting and affordable drugs to fight tuberculosis.
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U.S. and International Government Agencies
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is a component of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Its Coordinating Office for Global Health provides leadership, coordination, and support for CDC's global health activities.
The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria strives to dramatically increase resources to fight three of the world's most devastating diseases, and to direct those resources to areas of greatest need.
The John E. Fogarty International Center promotes and supports scientific research and training internationally to reduce disparities in global health.
The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) division of Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome works to increase basic knowledge on HIV and to support research that promotes progress in its detection, treatment, and prevention.
The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), established by congress in 1962, is part of the National Institutes of Health. NICHD conducts and supports research on topics related to the health of children, adults, families, and populations.
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is the primary Federal agency for conducting and supporting medical research. NIH provides leadership and financial support to researchers in every state and throughout the world.
UNAIDS, the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, focusing on leadership, advocacy, evaluation, and mobilization of resources. The UNAIDS Web site includes an extensive collection of statistics on HIV/AIDS, consensus documents, global HIV trends, country-specific data, demographics, and epidemiology.
United States Agency for International Development (USAID) provides economic development and humanitarian assistance around the world in support of the foreign policy goals of the United States.
The World Health Organization (WHO) is the United Nations' specialized agency for health-related issues and causes. WHO's objective is the attainment by all peoples of the highest possible level of health.
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Direct Service Organizations
CARE works alongside poor women in community-based efforts to fight global poverty and prevent the spread of HIV.
The Carter Center seeks to improve the quality of life for people around the world by advancing human rights, improving public health, and alleviating unnecessary human suffering.
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières delivers emergency aid to people in more than 70 countries affected by armed conflict, epidemics, natural or man-made disasters, or exclusion from health care.
Family Health International (FHI) strives to improve lives worldwide through research, education, and services in family health.
The International Trachoma Initiative is dedicated to the elimination of blinding trachoma, the world's leading cause of preventable blindness.
Partners in Health (PIH) takes a community-based approach to health, providing direct services to those in need, training health care workers in settings of poverty, and using their field experience to shape research and advocacy efforts.
PATH works to create sustainable, culturally relevant solutions, enabling communities worldwide to break longstanding cycles of poor health.
Foundations
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Global Health program provides funding to encourage the development of lifesaving medical advances and to help ensure they reach the people who are disproportionately affected.
The Clinton Foundation HIV/AIDS Initiative strives to make treatment for HIV/AIDS more affordable and to implement large-scale integrated care, treatment, and prevention programs.
The Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation seeks to prevent pediatric HIV infection and to eradicate pediatric AIDS through research, advocacy, and prevention and treatment programs.
The Kaiser Family Foundation focuses on the major health care issues facing the nation and provides facts and analysis for policymakers, the media, the health care community, and the general public.
The Rockefeller Foundation plays a vital role in eradicating HIV/AIDS by funding research and bringing together key collaborators who are able to implement solutions to improve the health of impoverished nations.
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