Country | Name of institution | Public or private | Sphere of influence | Selected health issues |
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Brazil | Agência Brasileira do Cooperação (ABC) | Public | Regional bilateral; Africa | Malaria; HIV/AIDS; universal health care; nutrition; human milk banks; surveillance; technology transfer |
Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz) | Public | Latin America | R&D; production of vaccines, reagents, drugs and diagnostics; human resource training; nutrition | |
Russia | Roscooperation (inter-ministerial commission) | Public | Russia’s fledging international aid agency | International health development |
Medical schools | Public and academic sector | CIS and Asia | Training for 20,000 medical students annually; disease surveillance | |
India | Public health foundation of India | Public-private funded | Nationally and bilaterally with US and UK | Established a network of public health schools |
Aravind Eye Care | Private | Nationally; China and Egypt | Technical assistance for eye care | |
Dept. of Biotechnology | Public | National | Biotechnology Innovation | |
National AIDS Research Institute | Public | National | Medical research | |
China | China National Biotec Group (CNBG) | Public-private | National | Vaccine innovation |
Shanghai Dahua Pharmaceutical Co. | Public-private | National | Women’s condom | |
South Africa | Treatment Action Campaign; AIDS Law Project | Not-for-profit non-government organization | National | Activism for access to drugs |
Desmond Tutu AIDS Centre | Public | National and bilateral with US and Europe | R&D and clinical research focused on infectious diseases |