"The fact that there are still 2.5 billion people who have to get by on less than USD 2 a day is the most challenging social problem of our times. The scale of this problem and its complexity call for the engagement of all relevant actors of society both in the south and in the north – including the private sector."

Novartis Foundation for Sustainable Development – in all aspects of our work we contribute to global development with a human face:

We develop and support pioneering health projects in developing countries aimed at achieving specific goals in the fight against poverty and disease as well as at inspiring and improving development policy and practice.

We promote the important debate on the basic principles of a fair division of responsibilities and duties in society for the sustainable welfare of all. We seek to help determine the content and limits of social responsibility, especially of pharmaceutical companies, as objectively as possible.

Through our positioning as a foundation with close corporate ties, we play a mediating and balancing role between the private sector, politics and civil society and facilitate dialog.
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World Malaria Day on the 25th of April in Basel
Apr 25, 2008		Every day 3000 children die of malaria. On World Malaria Day the Novartis Foundation for Sustainable Development, together with its partners from the “Swiss Malaria Group,” is working to inform the public about this disease and how it can be effectively treated. more...

World TB Day 2008 – I am stopping TB
Mar 17, 2008		On March 24, 2008, national and international organizations of the “Stop TB Partnership” are commemorating world TB day. This year’s slogan – “I am stopping TB” – underscores the importance of every individual in the fight against this disease. more...

Learn more about our commitment to fighting leprosy
Jan 24, 2008		World Leprosy Day 2008, on Sunday January 27, heralds a historic moment: leprosy is on the brink of elimination after more than two thousand years as a disabling disease that cruelly isolated and impoverished the people it infected. more...