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In its International Region, Global Community Partnerships focuses on providing partnership funding for health education. Programmes are selected using the criteria of need, sustainability, leverage, measurable outcomes, partnership and innovation, all of which ensure they have the best chance of creating maximum benefit. These criteria also ensure that successful programmes can, if appropriate, be reproduced in other, similar communities.

Personal Hygiene And Sanitation Education
GSK's PHASE initiative (Personal Hygiene And Sanitation Education) operates in Kenya, Uganda, Nicaragua and Peru. It provides hygiene and sanitation education for school children and aims to reduce diarrhoea-related disease and deaths associated with poor hygiene.

Rural nursing excellence programme in Thailand
March 2001 saw the first graduates of GSK's Rural Nursing Excellence programme, which sponsors female high school students from rural areas to take nursing degrees. GSK has donated £500,000 over five years to train 200 nurses. The programme is run in partnership with the nursing colleges associated with the Somedt Yaa Foundation, the Department of Public Welfare and its International Support Group. The Director of Nursing at the Ministry of Public Health acts as an adviser to the programme, which is supported locally by GSK in Bangkok. After completion of their education, the nurses take their skills back to their communities for at least three to four years.

HIV/AIDS care and prevention in China
Working in collaboration with the Australian Red Cross, this programme focuses on peer education workshops for young people, including drug users in custody; self care workshops for people living with HIV/AIDS and the broader community, including family and friends. Set up in the mid-90s, this was one of the first projects in China directly working with people living with HIV/AIDS in the provinces of Yunnan and Xinjiang where more than 50% of people living with HIV/AIDS in China are located.

Country-led initiatives
Other long-term community programmes that support healthcare education are led by GSK businesses:

• Youthline, a telephone helpline for young people at risk - GSK New Zealand
• Ethiopian Ministry of Health to extend the community component of Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI) - GSK Ethiopia
• National Commission on Human Development to improve healthcare education to reduce the infant and maternal mortality rate - GSK Pakistan
• Casa Esperanza to provide health education for children and teenagers in poverty - GSK Panama
• Pioneering HIV/AIDS workshops for healthcare workers - GSK Venezuela
• Attituda Positive HIV education and awareness through drama in schools - GSK Brazil
• 500 Midwives to improve reproductive care and training of midwives from ethnic communities - GSK Vietnam
• Family Health and Wellness, health education for families on low incomes - GSK Philippines

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