MERCK JOINS GLOBAL FIGHT TO HELP SAVE WOMEN'S LIVES DURING PREGNANCY AND CHILDBIRTH: President and CEO Ken Frazier Announces 10-Year, $500 Million Mobilization Read more...

JOHSON & JOHNSON MAKES STRONG PROGRESS IN FIRST YEAR OF INITIATIVE TO IMPROVE HEALTH OF MILLIONS OF WOMEN AND CHILDREN IN THE DEVELOPING WORLD: Innovative Partnerships with UN Agencies and NGOs to Help Ensure Measurable Health Impact in Five-Year Commitment to UN's Global Strategy. Additional New Efforts Aim to Prevent Chronic Disease and Improve Health Worker Training Read More

BLACK TREATMENT ADOVOCACY NETWORK (BTAN) VOLUNTEER FEATURED IN USE TODAY ARTICLE ON AIDS IN THE SOUTH Read more...

RABIN STRATEGIC PARTNERS BECOMES RABIN MARTIN: Management Consulting Initiatives for the United Nations; Major U.S. Corporations; Non-Profits and Foundation in Nigeria, India and the US; and Driving Change

NEW YORK, April 4, 2011 - Rabin Partners, a leading global management consultancy working at the crossroads of health, is now Rabin Martin. The renaming accompanies the firm's expansion into large-scale, public health management consulting for programs inside and outside the United States. Efforts include the Every Women, Every Child initiative for the United Nations to raise global commitments for women and children's health.Read more...

COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY'S TEENSCREEN LAUNCHES REGISTRY OF PRIMARY CARE PROVIDERS WHO OFFER MENTAL HEALTH SCREENING FOR ADOLESCENTS

NEW YORK - The TeenScreen^® National Center for Mental Health Checkups at Columbia University today launched the Columbia University TeenScreen Registry (www.teenscreenregistry.org) - a registry of primary care providers who offer mental health screening during routine adolescent care. Primary care providers listed on the registry use evidence-based questionnaires to identify teens who are struggling with depression, anxiety, or another mental illness. Read more...

TIBOTEC SIGNS MULTIPLE AGREEMENTS WITH GENERIC MANUFACTURERS TO PROVIDE ACCESS TO NEW HIV TREATMENT

Co Cork, Ireland, 27 January 2011 - Tibotec Pharmaceuticals today announced that it has granted multiple non-exclusive licenses to generic manufacturers including Hetero Drugs Limited, Matrix Laboratories Limited (a Mylan company) of India and Aspen Pharmacare of South Africa to manufacture, market and distribute  the investigational non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor rilpivirine hydrochloride (TMC278), pending its approval for use with other antiretroviral agents in the treatment of treatment-naïve HIV-1 infected adults. Read more...

SISTERLOVE, INC. AND MERCK LAUNCH "EVERYONE HAS A STORY" SERIES: UNIQUE HIV/AIDS TREATMENT AND CARE EDUCATIONAL SERIES, PARTNERSHIP HELPS HIV + WOMEN OF COLOR SHARE THEIR STORIES

In honor of National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day, SisterLove, Inc., with support from Merck, today announced the launch of "Everyone Has a Story," a mini-documentary and educational HIV/AIDS treatment and care resource. Read more...

BLACK AIDS INSTITUTE, IN PARTNERSHIP WITH MERCK, LAUNCHES DYNAMIC NATIONAL HIV/AIDS TREATMENT AND CARE ADVOCACY NETWORK

The Black AIDS Institute (The Institute), with support from Merck, announced the launch of the Black Treatment Advocats Network (BTAN). BTAN, the first collaborative Network of its kind, will train and mobilize a team of treatment advocates. Read more...

2010 EMERGES AS HISTORIC YEAR OF DECISIVE ACTION TO SAVE THE LIVES OF MORE THAN 10 MILLION WOMEN AND CHILDREN BY 2015

Leaders of the G8, G20 and governments from every region of the world, as well as leaders from the private sector, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), philanthropy and UN entitites, are building support for a Global Strategy for Women's and Children's Health led by Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to accelerate progress to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGS) and ensure that investments made in women's and children's health are well spent. Read more...

TIBOTEC THERAPEUTICS DEBUTS INNOVATIVE WEB PORTAL FOR HIV/AIDS FRONT-LINE SERVICE PROVIDERS FREE, CENTRALIZED RESOURCE DESIGNED TO HELP OVERCOME SOME BARRIERS TO SUPPORTIVE CARE

Tibotec Therapeutics announced the launch of the HIV Case Manager Portal (the Portal), a free, easy-to-use online resource at www.HIVCaseManager.com designed to help HIV/AIDS front-line service providers. Read more...

TEENSCREEN CENTER AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY OFFERS FREE RESOURCES TO HELP COMPLY WITH NEW FEDERAL RECOMMENDATIONS

The TeenScreen National Center for Mental Health Checkups at Columbia Unversity has free resources to assist primary care providers (PCPs) with offering mental health checkups to adolescent patients in accordance with new federal recommendations to offer mental health checkups to all 12-to-18-year-old patients. Read more...

WELLCOME TRUST AND MERCK ANNOUNCE JOINT VENTURE
Wellcome Trust and Merck launched a research and development joint venture with a not-for-profit mission to focus on developing affordable vaccines to prevent disease that commonly affect low-income countries. Read more...

MERCK AND JOHNSON & JOHNSON RECIEVE TOP GRADES FROM ACTIVISTS
The AIDS Treatment Activists Coalition gave Merck and Johnson & Johnson company, Tibotec Pharmaceuticals, top grades in an assessment of major pharmaceutical companies. Read more...