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The African Medical and Research Foundation (AMREF) Honors Merck & Co., Inc. with Global Corporate Philanthropy Award
Date:9/17/2007

ent effective and sustainable solutions to global health challenges such as HIV/AIDS."

Throughout its history, Merck has devoted considerable effort to bringing its medicines and vaccines, expertise and experience to people around the world. The Merck MECTIZAN(R) Donation Program, the single largest, longest standing public/private partnership of its kind, is widely regarded as one of the most successful and effective global health collaborations between the public and private sectors in the world. The program, which currently reaches more than 60 million people in Africa, Latin America and the Middle East each year for the treatment of river blindness, is now in its 20th year. Merck has applied its experience with the MECTIZAN Donation Program to others partnerships around the world that are helping to prevent and treat HIV/AIDS including The African Comprehensive HIV/AIDS Partnerships (ACHAP), a partnership among the Government of Botswana, Merck and The Merck Company Foundation and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to support and enhance Botswana's national response to HIV/AIDS through a comprehensive approach to prevention, care, treatment and support. Botswana currently has more than 88,000 patients on anti-retroviral therapy, with more than 1,000 new patients enrolling in the national treatment program each month. According to the World Health Organization, the country's free antiretroviral treatment program has enrolled the highest proportion of eligible patients on the African continent.

Merck has consistently ranked among the top two corporate donors in the United States in the annual ranking by the Chronicle of Philanthropy. In 2006, Merck's corporate cash and product donations were $826 million. In 2007, Merck celebrates the 50th anniversary of The Merck Company Foundation, the Company's chief source of funding support to qualified non-profit, charitable organizations. Since its inception, The Merck Company Foundation has contributed more th
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