The Global Health Initiative (GHI) serves as permanent member to the private sector delegation of the Global Fund's board. In this capacity, the GHI is working with the Global Business Coalition for HIV/AIDS to increase the quality and quantity of business sector involvement in the Global Fund. The private sector is represented at the Board of the Global Fund by Rajat Gupta, Senior Director, McKinsey & Company.
  Read his remarks to the Board (PDF; 2 pgs; 12k).

If you would like to contribute to the Global Fund or be a part of the Private Sector Constituency, please contact globalfund@weforum.org



Global Partnership to Stop TB

The Global Partnership to Stop TB is a multistakeholder collaboration coordinated by a World Health Organization-based group which accelerates social and political action to stop the unnecessary spread of tuberculosis (TB) around the world.

The World Economic Forum's Global Health Initiative (GHI) helps co-ordinate private sector involvement in Stop TB by:

• Supporting the private sector Secretariat Board member and alternate for Stop TB
• Acting as a clearing house for private sector involvement in the Stop TB Partnership and its working groups.

If you or your company would like to get involved, you can find information about the most recent board meeting here. If you would like to be part of the Private Sector Constituency for Stop TB, please contact stoptb@weforum.org.




Roll Back Malaria Global Partnership

The Roll Back Malaria Global Partnership was established in 1998 to provide a coordinated international approach to fighting malaria - a disease that kills more than a million people each year, most of them children — with the goal of halving the burden of malaria by 2010. The Global Health Initiative assists with the co-ordination of the private sector in the RBM Global Partnership.

India Business Alliance to Stop TB

The India Business Alliance to Stop TB - the first concept of its kind - was developed by the GHI to enhance participation of companies in tuberculosis control.

Read the India Business Alliance to Stop TB charter (PDF; 6 pgs; 62k).

Premier Indian companies like Aditya Birla, Larsen Toubro, Lupin Ltd, Modicare Foundation, Novartis India, Reliance Industries, Tata Steel and Triveni Sugar, are engaged along with the Revised National TB Control Program (RNTCP), the GHI, the Confederation of Indian Industry, the World Health Organization and the Global Partnership to Stop TB. More


Contact
For more information on the Global Health Initiative please contact globalhealth@weforum.org