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Article: GSK donates to Carter Center to expand LF program.
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- Pharma Marketletter
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- December 15, 2008
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In a meeting with former US President and founder of The Carter Center, Jimmy Carter, as well as global health thought leaders from around the world, UK drug giant GlaxoSmithKline announced that it has made a $250,000 donation to the Center to assist the Ministry of Health of Ethiopia with launching a program to eliminate lymphatic filariasis. The program will be launched in the Gambella region of Ethiopia, currently known as the most LF-endemic part of the country. The donation will help enable a two-year initiative to scale up mass drug administration for LF there, according to GSK.a
At the event, GSK also ...