Pharmaceutical Achievement Awards Honor OneWorld Health
The Institute for OneWorld Health was awarded the “Social Responsibility Award” at the 2005 Pharmaceutical Achievement Awards on Aug. 8 in Boston.  Over 350 guests were in attendance to honor the significant accomplishments of individuals and organizations in the global pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries in the areas of science, business and corporate generosity.

“We are honored to be recognized by our peers in the Social Responsibility category,” stated Victoria Hale, Ph.D., CEO and Founder of OneWorld Health.  “This award brings together the best in the industry and celebrates the important work that pharmaceutical companies are doing.”  Dr. Hale acknowledged the contributions of the World Health Organization, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the International Dispensary Association (IDA), and an excellent team of Indian clinical counterparts in OneWorld Health's lead program in visceral leishmaniasis.
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Leading Policy Journal Features OneWorld Health
Drs. Victoria Hale, Katherine Woo and Helene Lipton of the Institute for OneWorld Health have published “Oxymoron No More: The Potential Of Nonprofit Drug Companies To Deliver On The Promise Of Medicines For The Developing World” in the July/August issue of Health Affairs, the leading health policy journal in the United States. Within the context of public-private partnerships, OneWorld Health is used as a model to illustrate the challenges and solutions to developing medicines for diseases endemic in developing countries. All papers in Health Affairs are peer-reviewed, and the acceptance rate is 10-15 percent.
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G-8 Leaders Called to Support Partnerships for Global Health
In a display of solidarity, the Institute for OneWorld Health joined 24 leading global health organizations and companies as co-signatories last month on an open letter to strengthen the support for Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) from leaders of G-8 nations. Public-Private Partnerships have been the keystone for great advancements in delivering health care to the developing world in recent years. PPPs support development from many institutions in science including academia, research institutes and biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies.

Leaders from Canada, France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Japan, Russia and the United States met July 6-8 in Gleneagles, Scotland to discuss ways to alleviate poverty in Africa and other poor nations.
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Lehman Brothers Foundation Awards Grant to OneWorld Health
OneWorld Health has received a two-year grant from the Lehman Brothers Foundation of New York, N.Y. to help accelerate the selection of promising drug leads to treat pediatric diarrhea. This is the first grant to OneWorld Health from the financial community to engage in drug development.
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• Newsweek Special Edition: Your Health in the 21st Century,  “Chasing Black Fever”, July/August 2005.
  Seven hundred miles beyond Delhi, on the plains of India’s Bihar State, the 21st century is hard to distinguish from the 11th. People don’t complain about their worms, malaria or dysentery. What has everyone so worried is kala-azar or “black fever.”
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• California Connected, “The First Nonprofit Pharmaceutical,” June 24, 2005.
  At the dawn of the 21st century, malaria kills at least one million people a year while roughly two million children die from diarrheal diseases annually. Dr. Victoria Hale knew that she had to do something about this.
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• KQED, The California Report, Pharmaceutical Company, June 24, 2005.
  What happens when millions of Third World people die of curable diseases because they can't afford the drugs to treat them? And the big drug companies can't afford to make cheaper drugs because it's not profitable? What happens is, a California woman figures out how to change the rules. She opened the nation's first non-profit pharmaceutical company.
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Scientists Decode Deadly Parasite Genomes
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- Three parasites that sicken or kill millions of people in the developing world every year have been genetically sequenced and are giving up clues that could be used to fight them. The international team said they had mapped out the genomes of the parasites that cause African sleeping sickness, Chagas disease and leishmaniasis, which kill 150,000 people a year and cripple many more.
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Bush Pledges $1.2 Billion For Africa to Fight Malaria
President Bush announced a $1.7 billion aid package for Africa devoted primarily to combating malaria, unveiling the initiatives yesterday in advance of an international summit next week dedicated to breaking the continent's perpetual cycle of poverty, disease and famine.
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We extend our thanks to the following organizations and individuals for their recent generous gifts and are pleased to acknowledge individuals who have been honored and memorialized:

In Honor Of Evie and Jerry Levitz Dr. Bobbie Preston Pilar Rico Soriano In Memory Of Jose Benigno Russo Ron Sand Marta Sosna Ali Tabassian Nanna og Thomas Organizations Electrevision Institute for the Future Individuals Paul and Katherine Albitz D.W. Beisser Lila and Irv Berman Monica Boyle Terry Broughton Nicholas Carter Andrew Chu Margaret Crawford Charles Dexter Kathleen Di Paola Kenneth Doyle Stella Farrell Gregg Fatzinger and Elizabeth Isakson Manuel Flores-Esteves Cynthia Hale and Peter Braun Thomas Hamilton Robert Hill, Jr. Robert and Barbara Klein Dorothy Lee Wendy Lewis-Rakova Merideth Leygraff D. Todd Littlefield Donald MacHarg Maggie Morris William Nisbet Peter and Gillian Norman Jaya Pisupati John Pugh Aran Ramos Ortega Diane and John Rose Jose Russo Ethel and Marvin Sosna Roberto Stasi Mary Struthers Radhika Uppalapati Tiffany Weeks

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