Max Oliva, Associate Director, Social Impact Management This years Prince of Asturias Award for International Cooperation has been awarded to the organizations leading the fight against malaria in Africa, which are: The Ifakara Health Research and Development Centre (Tanzania), the Malaria Research and Training Centre (Mali), the Kintampo Health Research Centre (Ghana) and the Manhiça Centre of Health Research (Mozambique). I had the opportunity to spend a week at Ifakara visiting the Centre there, while doing a case study on how Novartis has been integrating corporate responsibility to the core of their strategy. There, we went more in depth on their Malaria program, supported by the Novartis Foundation for Sustainable Development, and it certainly was very interesting to see the work being done in regards to its prevention, through social marketing and others, viewing their access to effective treatment of malaria , attacking the mosquitoes, the parasite, etc. My most sincere congratulations to the people who have been working for the past years on this project. Theres certainly still a very long way to go but it is fundamental that their work is recognized and we can focus more our attention to the problem and its solutions. ...
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Max Oliva, Associate Director, Social Impact Management This years Prince of Asturias Award for International Cooperation has been awarded to the organizations leading the fight against malaria in Africa, which are: The Ifakara Health Research and Development Centre (Tanzania), the Malaria Research and Training Centre (Mali), the Kintampo Health Research Centre (Ghana) and the Manhiça Centre of Health Research (Mozambique). I had the opportunity to spend a week at Ifakara visiting the Centre there, while doing a case study on how Novartis has been integrating corporate responsibility to the core of their strategy. There, we went more in depth on their Malaria program, supported by the Novartis Foundation for Sustainable Development, and it certainly was very interesting to see the work being done in regards to its prevention, through social marketing and others, viewing their access to effective treatment of malaria , attacking the mosquitoes, the parasite, etc. My most sincere congratulations to the people who have been working for the past years on this project. Theres certainly still a very long way to go but it is fundamental that their work is recognized and we can focus more our attention to the problem and its solutions. ...