Abbott Global AIDS Care

Since 2000, the Abbott Global AIDS Care program has employed a comprehensive and strategic approach to fighting against HIV/AIDS. Our efforts cover four fronts:

• Prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV (PMTCT): We donate a rapid HIV test to identify pregnant women who test positive for HIV. This program supports early diagnosis and treatment of HIV-positive women so that they may deliver HIV-negative babies.
• Expanding access to testing and treatment: We provide HIV/AIDS tests and treatment at no-profit prices. These discounted products significantly increase access to testing and treatment for patients in 69 developing countries.
• Supporting children affected by HIV/AIDS: We provide medical treatment for children living with HIV/AIDS and support for vulnerable children who have lost parents to the disease.
• Health care systems improvement: Working in concert with host governments, we fund the strengthening of health care systems, infrastructure and capacity desperately needed in resource-poor countries.

To date, Abbott Global AIDS Care programs have:

• Served more than 700,000 children and their families;
• Provided more than 100 million HIV tests at no profit;
• Improved HIV services at more than 90 sites across Tanzania, including building a new treatment center and clinical laboratories at the country's largest hospital;
• Undertaken modernization of all 23 regional hospital laboratories in Tanzania; and
• Supported a model pediatric HIV treatment program that reduced mortality rates by 90 percent; this model is now being expanded across Africa.

The next five years will bring new challenges and a deepening of our commitment to the battle against HIV/AIDS. Using our cumulative knowledge and experience, we will expand the care and treatment of the most vulnerable segment of society, children living with HIV/AIDS. By 2012, we plan to:

• Donate more than 10 million HIV tests to support the PMTCT program;
• Test and counsel 500,000 people;
• Treat and care for 50,000 children, who will represent 15 percent of patients within our treatment programs; and
• Assist 1 million families and vulnerable children through the Abbott Fund programs that support education and health care.

Read more about our HIV/AIDS efforts at HIV and Abbott.

We report regularly on our efforts in our Annual Report and Global Citizenship Report.

Learn more about the Abbott Global AIDS Care program.