"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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