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BACKGROUND
World Response began as a non-profit in the UK in 1998 and became a US registered 501C3 in 2002. Since its inception World Response has been involved in a wide range of different projects, although the primary focus has always been public health. The lack of available medicines and |
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| medical supplies in developing countries and to remote rural populations in particular, has always been an important issue to World Response. Not surprisingly therefore our projects have tended to focus on non-profit drug distribution and developing and supporting remote rural healthcare infrastructure. |
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Providing medicines to remote clinics, working in partnership with other NGO's to provide equipment and supplies, supporting community health care initiatives, remain a core part of the World Response mission. However the |
| development of the relationship with the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Malaria and TB, has added a new dimension to the World Response program portfolio. |
Supporting Global Fund recipients with program implementation advice and support, along with the procurement and supply management consulting services to the Global Fund's secretariat, has enabled World Response to broaden its scope and increase the impact on those communities it is aiming to serve.
World Response is an active partner in the Global Fund network and its operational structure is ideally suited to assist Global Fund recipients, as well as other organisations who share the common objective of ensuring poor people have access to the medicines they need.
At its core World Response works as a team; a group of people with a broad range of different NGO and commercial experience ranging from international drug distribution and generic medicines, to procurement, project development and implementation.
Additional professional advisory support, in matters relating to medical, financial and legal issues, helps to complete a project team, which interacts to varying degrees with each other, depending on the needs of each project.
