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
New Brunswick, NJ (September 20, 2011) – Johnson & Johnson today announced important progress made in the inaugural year of the Company’s comprehensive effort designed to improve the health of as many as 120 million women and children each year in developing countries by 2015.
Since its launch last September, Johnson & Johnson has laid a strong foundation for measurable impact in several areas toward Every Woman, Every Child, the United Nations’ Global Strategy for Women’s and Children’s Health to reduce mortality in women and children by 2015, including: expanding health information for mothers over mobile phones, helping to increase the number of safe births, doubling donations of treatments for intestinal worms in children, helping to ensure that no child is born with HIV, and furthering research and development of new medicines for HIV and tuberculosis (TB).
"Our results should be measured in terms of lives saved over the five years of our commitment, not just in terms of effort or dollars contributed,” said Johnson & Johnson Chairman and CEO Bill Weldon. “We responded to the Secretary General’s call for action because we aim to make a real and lasting difference for women and children in some of the most challenging areas of the world. This is the goal to which we are holding ourselves accountable.”
First Year Sees Major Expansion of Partnerships, Disease Prevention Efforts
In the first year of this work, Johnson & Johnson created new alliances while strengthening existing ones with many organizations, including non-governmental and community groups, governments, academia and multilateral groups to scale-up proven health interventions. Johnson & Johnson expects to positively affect the lives of millions of women and children through this effort.
“Every Woman, Every Child has shown what can be achieved through close cooperation between the UN, governments, and the private sector,” said United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon. “A great deal has been achieved in the last year. Visionary leaders recognize the value of investing in the health of women and children.”
Johnson & Johnson’s accomplishments in the first year of this effort include:
Maximizing the health impact of these programs is critical and requires new ways of thinking to measure and report health outcomes. Johnson & Johnson is working to help its partner organizations expand the capacity to measure tangible improvements in the lives of women and children. Impact measurement and reporting standards are being established for each program target to enhance accountability and transparency.
“We want to understand more than just the numbers of women and children that we reach,” said Sharon D’Agostino, Vice President of Worldwide Corporate Contributions at Johnson & Johnson. “We’re establishing accountability measures to understand the overall impact our programs make in improving health outcomes. We recognize the promises made and the firm deadlines we’ve set through 2015. We take these commitments very seriously.”
New Partnerships Support Global Effort to Prevent Chronic Disease
Beyond our enduring commitment to women’s and children’s health, Johnson & Johnson is building alliances in prevention, aligning with the United Nations Secretary General’s call-to-action to address the major causes of chronic, non-communicable diseases globally. The Company will announce new efforts to combat smoking and tobacco use via mobile phones and workplace interventions.
Since 2000, Johnson & Johnson and its operating companies have provided nearly $5 billion in grants, product donations and patient assistance that have touched the lives of men, women and children throughout the world.
For additional information about Johnson & Johnson’s commitments to addressing the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), please visit www.jnj.com/MDG2011.
About Johnson & Johnson
Caring for the world, one person at a time…inspires and unites the people of Johnson & Johnson. We embrace research and science -- bringing innovative ideas, products and services to advance the health and well-being of people. Our 116,000 employees at more than 250 Johnson & Johnson companies work with partners in health care to touch the lives of over a billion people every day, throughout the world.
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Press Contact:
Carol Goodrich
732-524-6678
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
New Brunswick, NJ (September 20, 2011) – Johnson & Johnson today announced important progress made in the inaugural year of the Company’s comprehensive effort designed to improve the health of as many as 120 million women and children each year in developing countries by 2015.
Since its launch last September, Johnson & Johnson has laid a strong foundation for measurable impact in several areas toward Every Woman, Every Child, the United Nations’ Global Strategy for Women’s and Children’s Health to reduce mortality in women and children by 2015, including: expanding health information for mothers over mobile phones, helping to increase the number of safe births, doubling donations of treatments for intestinal worms in children, helping to ensure that no child is born with HIV, and furthering research and development of new medicines for HIV and tuberculosis (TB).
"Our results should be measured in terms of lives saved over the five years of our commitment, not just in terms of effort or dollars contributed,” said Johnson & Johnson Chairman and CEO Bill Weldon. “We responded to the Secretary General’s call for action because we aim to make a real and lasting difference for women and children in some of the most challenging areas of the world. This is the goal to which we are holding ourselves accountable.”
First Year Sees Major Expansion of Partnerships, Disease Prevention Efforts
In the first year of this work, Johnson & Johnson created new alliances while strengthening existing ones with many organizations, including non-governmental and community groups, governments, academia and multilateral groups to scale-up proven health interventions. Johnson & Johnson expects to positively affect the lives of millions of women and children through this effort.
“Every Woman, Every Child has shown what can be achieved through close cooperation between the UN, governments, and the private sector,” said United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon. “A great deal has been achieved in the last year. Visionary leaders recognize the value of investing in the health of women and children.”
Johnson & Johnson’s accomplishments in the first year of this effort include:
Maximizing the health impact of these programs is critical and requires new ways of thinking to measure and report health outcomes. Johnson & Johnson is working to help its partner organizations expand the capacity to measure tangible improvements in the lives of women and children. Impact measurement and reporting standards are being established for each program target to enhance accountability and transparency.
“We want to understand more than just the numbers of women and children that we reach,” said Sharon D’Agostino, Vice President of Worldwide Corporate Contributions at Johnson & Johnson. “We’re establishing accountability measures to understand the overall impact our programs make in improving health outcomes. We recognize the promises made and the firm deadlines we’ve set through 2015. We take these commitments very seriously.”
New Partnerships Support Global Effort to Prevent Chronic Disease
Beyond our enduring commitment to women’s and children’s health, Johnson & Johnson is building alliances in prevention, aligning with the United Nations Secretary General’s call-to-action to address the major causes of chronic, non-communicable diseases globally. The Company will announce new efforts to combat smoking and tobacco use via mobile phones and workplace interventions.
Since 2000, Johnson & Johnson and its operating companies have provided nearly $5 billion in grants, product donations and patient assistance that have touched the lives of men, women and children throughout the world.
For additional information about Johnson & Johnson’s commitments to addressing the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), please visit www.jnj.com/MDG2011.
About Johnson & Johnson
Caring for the world, one person at a time…inspires and unites the people of Johnson & Johnson. We embrace research and science -- bringing innovative ideas, products and services to advance the health and well-being of people. Our 116,000 employees at more than 250 Johnson & Johnson companies work with partners in health care to touch the lives of over a billion people every day, throughout the world.
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Press Contact:
Carol Goodrich
732-524-6678